judyarb1945 asked:
Reality show “celebrities”, movie stars, athletes, many of them just to toot their own horn, or to let people know how many of the opposite *** they have bedded (maybe even the same sex) write books so they have something to talk about when they are interviewed. Sorry about this last sentence, hope it makes sense.
And young people who have just begun to live are writing memiors, EXCUSE ME!!!!
Reality show “celebrities”, movie stars, athletes, many of them just to toot their own horn, or to let people know how many of the opposite *** they have bedded (maybe even the same sex) write books so they have something to talk about when they are interviewed. Sorry about this last sentence, hope it makes sense.
And young people who have just begun to live are writing memiors, EXCUSE ME!!!!
January 7th, 2009 at 16:30
Well I’m no celeberty and I write about something, and I hope one day to be interviewed about my book. And I write because I love to not to get popularity. So that’s what I have to say.
January 9th, 2009 at 21:10
i understand what you mean. long gone are the days of actual authors being the only ones allowed to write books. if someone of importance dies and a book is written about their life then that i understand. but all these what i have termed mid career crises books from celebs are really getting annoying.
January 10th, 2009 at 07:37
those celebrities don’t actually write their books. the publishing house hires a ghostwriter to write and the celebrity to give their name and juicy details.
January 13th, 2009 at 06:59
I too find this considerably annoying. I’m not the groupie type to begin with. So, I find the books of celebrities to exceedingly superfluous and an utter waste of a tree. Where’s our modern day Voltaires, Poes, Hemingways, Melvilles, etc . . . . Stephen King may be popular and by that account is probably the closest we’ve got to this caliber of writer; but, honestly, his stuff is crap. And Hitchcock, Mr. King, sorry but you surely are not.
Did you know that Madonna wrote a book? Yep. Great illustrations; but the actual writing was nauseating.
January 14th, 2009 at 15:45
What a good interesting point you make……& i agree with you 100%.
Just wandering off the point slightly, something that really irritates me is to days modern (not all of them of course) newspapers that are full of who’s doing what to who (couldn’t care less, to be honest) Just where is the news in these “Rags”,…….they’re not Newspapers they’re Comics……..& just what sort of “journalists” write this drivel.
Also seems weird to me that these types of “newspapers” sell more copies than the “real” papers written by top journalists.
Gee! glad to get that off my chest.
thank you, enjoyed reading your question.