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Okay I'll wait for the defence, but I was sick to read a two page spread in today's The Times about this ego trip, overpaid footballer. Once again the subject of his books was discussed, especially since it is claimed they have sold 100,000 copies ( hooray shout his supporters). You may remember that when they came out he was interviewed and said he written "a few words", though the actual word were never disclosed. When asked the same question today he said: "These are completely my ideas, from the birth of the characters to each storyline." If he had been man enough to admit that a ghost writer did the actual WRITING (not a few words), he would earn my respect, but nothing has changed my mind that he is a fraud.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/11277201/zoella-girl-online-ghostwritten-zoe-sugg.html
Although, probably not.
With Frank now being an established author, acknowledged by the glitterati, and a competition judge to boot, he might well feel moved to join Talkback to give us lesser scribes the wisdom of his experience.
And what would be the first thing he would see? toothlight calling him a fraud, that's what he'd see.
Don't fancy your chances in the High Court, toothlight old son.
*pretends not to know toothlight*
:-*
It's not up to him to do anything, and you are bringing this website into disrepute by your obsession.
It would be a significantly better outlet for your energies than all this negative, petty jealousy.
I don't follow that sentence at all. Take out the 'albeit' clause, and you have:
'Why should I be jealous when I was taken on by a publisher but saw the book on Waterstones shelves in various cities, knowing I had written every ruddy word?'
No - doesn't make sense.
Because someone will find out that the construction and tidying up work has been done by a ghostwriter and it will be in the press with the resulting trouble.
But, any 'bad' publicity will sell books, so it's a win win situation...
'There's no such thing as bad publicity, only no publicity.' As regards everyone finding out they didn't actually write the book, sadly, the gullible public will still want to believe their hero/heroine DID write the missive. After all, that well know footballer with an IQ of..(has he got one?) Wayne Rooney 'wrote' his FIRST autobiography at the age of 21 years. Shall we now consign this theme to the archives.......until the next amazing celeb
launch their book?
The way I see it heather, is a lot of comedians* seek out their own material be it words, pictures, camera shots, invasion on privacy of others, whatever. They then re-assemble that material into an order according to their comedic slant.
To the untrained eye this order looks like it's their own material. I suppose you could say they're glorified bin men, whiffing not of bin juice but of that scent not unfamiliar to a trainee in Ikea.
They extract the wheat from the chav of life and turn it (or at the least some manage it) into a smile.
*other writing occupations are available
*stretches, yawns, goes back to sleep*