bLoG pOsT nUmBeR sEvEn

        In my opinion, a non-fiction book has to be mostly true. I am fine if the writer doesn't tell the whole truth, just a white lie. An example of that would be saying if the author had one dog and his neighbor had another. Instead of talking about the neighbor and his dog, why not just say you have two dogs or just leave that dog out of the situation. I don't think that it's okay that Frey and Mortenson bent the truth to tell their stories. They should have been honest and say that some of the events in the book were exaggerated or made up. Plus, why do they want them to memoirs so badly? It would make life easier for them if they just made it a regular book instead then they wouldn't have any crap about lying. I think that David Shields is both right and wrong. Right because we shouldn't have to label something, a book is a book and some people may enjoy it and some people may not. Wrong because, in my opinion, the only reason we have genres is so that people know where to look when they want a specific book at the book store. So overall, i think that David is more right then wrong.