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Originally Posted by Hellmark
There are times when the author knows his info is false. Look at Million Little Pieces. He claimed that was his true life story, yet, none of it happened. Also, look at propaganda. Shit that makes you believe something that someone else wants you to believe, regardless of if there is truth to it. Why do they do it? Power, money, and/or fame.
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What is truth? Why does anyone do anything?
Why someone writes something should not hold any weight in our decision to read what they have wrote, unless you plan on taking a trip down the censorship slope.
In the postmodern era, which we have recently gone past, readers of Million Little Pieces should have taken the text for what it was, an account of a life, without thinking about whether or not the things in the book actually happened to the author in "real life".
In the new era, where all narratives are neither fictional nor non-fictional but are understood to have been and always will be a blending of the two, readers will no longer question whether or not the events of a narrative actually happened. We will understand that thinking and doing are simply two points on a line, not to say that reality is linear.
There are things inside books that the author did not intend to place there, this is known. Things such as passages that alter reader's lives in ways that the "writer" has not known.
It is for these hidden meanings that I read, and maybe you as well? These passages of meaning could be anywhere and everywhere. And they are most likely unique to the "individual".
It should be left up to each reader to decide which texts they wish to appropriate for their own well being, and to decide which writers they wish to reward for this contribution to their being.