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Book Meme - Day 05
Aug. 14th, 2010 12:51 pmDay 05 – A book or series you hate
Curiously enough, this is an easy one. There is this one book I know of that fills me with irrational hatred, and the only one I've ever thrown to the garbage:
Cañitas
That book it's not only hideously written, worse plotted and just plain awful. But that isn't the--only--reason I dislike it so actively. I hate it because, on top of it, the author, Carlos Trejo, is a scammer and the book is a scam that worked. There's even a movie based on it! I haven't seen it, but I've heard it's as bad as the source material.
Anyway, the book it's about your average ghost story about a family that lives in a haunted house, and they go on gruesomely dying one by one. Original, innit? The author made it pass as a true story and people believed him. The guy was on several talk-shows as a guest, got his own show, and, long story short, made a fortune of not only from the story he wrote, but also by selling edited videos and pictures of ghosts he took from the internet and claimed as his own. He claimed that he and his team had filmed those videos and taken those photographs and on his website he threatened with a lawsuit to anyone who dared to say otherwise.
For added fun, one of the persons allegedly killed by the ghost in his book sued Trejo later for being a lying liar who lied--and, I'm guessing here, for not giving her some of the money he was making out of her death. Or maybe it was a publicity stunt, IDK.
...TL;DR It isn't the book itself, it's the whole story surrounding it. BUT THIS STILL COUNTS FOR THE MEME, RIGHT?
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Curiously enough, this is an easy one. There is this one book I know of that fills me with irrational hatred, and the only one I've ever thrown to the garbage:
That book it's not only hideously written, worse plotted and just plain awful. But that isn't the--only--reason I dislike it so actively. I hate it because, on top of it, the author, Carlos Trejo, is a scammer and the book is a scam that worked. There's even a movie based on it! I haven't seen it, but I've heard it's as bad as the source material.
Anyway, the book it's about your average ghost story about a family that lives in a haunted house, and they go on gruesomely dying one by one. Original, innit? The author made it pass as a true story and people believed him. The guy was on several talk-shows as a guest, got his own show, and, long story short, made a fortune of not only from the story he wrote, but also by selling edited videos and pictures of ghosts he took from the internet and claimed as his own. He claimed that he and his team had filmed those videos and taken those photographs and on his website he threatened with a lawsuit to anyone who dared to say otherwise.
For added fun, one of the persons allegedly killed by the ghost in his book sued Trejo later for being a lying liar who lied--and, I'm guessing here, for not giving her some of the money he was making out of her death. Or maybe it was a publicity stunt, IDK.
...TL;DR It isn't the book itself, it's the whole story surrounding it. BUT THIS STILL COUNTS FOR THE MEME, RIGHT?
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