I have very simple views on the topic whether or non-nonfiction
needs to be true or not. Personally I think for a book to be consider
nonfiction or a memoir it must be 100% true or its fiction based off a true
story. If it isn't totally true it never happened like that at all or it is
totally made up, now does that sound like nonfiction? If your story is full of half-truths
than half of the story is a lie and that's fine if you own up to it. Although I
do believe Frey and others should own up to making up things and exaggerating.
Half-truth stories can be very good but you lose the “ah”
that it actually happened then if it really did.In conclusion I feel like
there needs to be a line between genres because then false will be confused
with true. People tend to read based on genre and it’s a way for them to find
what they’re interested and taking away genre would mess something almost equal
to a book system. .
I agree that books should be 100% true if you're going to label them nonfiction or memoirs. I like to know what type of book I'm getting ready to read so I like how we have that barrier between nonfiction and fiction. I also think Frey should own up the fact that he made up some of his book. Maybe re-publish it and categorize it as realistic fiction?
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