Repercussions of Papadakis' book & Cizeron's response

[Alilou]

Hater energy x 10. People can share their opinions based on comments

Opinions based on comments here - 99% of which are from people who have also not read the book. So yeah, based on nothing.

 

[Winnipeg]

Interesting that you’re not reading it and you don’t plan to but you do feel the need to share your opinion based on absolutely nothing…

That is why my comment was articulated in that context. I have read many similar books such as the Spare, This is my Story, I Tonya and the list goes on (and on). They all have some level of resentment in them and not saying that it is wrong to have those feelings, but just that I have been there done that before. I am sure she has good reason to feel the way she does but why does it have to be public? To make money? To get back at those who did her wrong? To practice writing?

 

[Vagabond]

They all have some level of resentment in them and not saying that it is wrong to have those feelings, but just that I have been there done that before.

You may have been there before, but she hasn't.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

That is why my comment was articulated in that context. I have read many similar books such as the Spare, This is my Story, I Tonya and the list goes on (and on). They all have some level of resentment in them and not saying that it is wrong to have those feelings, but just that I have been there done that before. I am sure she has good reason to feel the way she does but why does it have to be public? To make money? To get back at those who did her wrong? To practice writing?

Right, so you formed your opinion on her book based on what you assume it is like based on other books. Which is the same as nothing.

 

[jackson]

Right, so you formed your opinion on her book based on what you assume it is like based on other books. Which is the same as nothing.

Not very nice! Message Boards are for opinions based on whatever the writer wants say! Since you wrote something, I would venture to say it is something!

 

[Karen-W]

Not very nice! Message Boards are for opinions based on whatever the writer wants say! Since you wrote something, I would venture to say it is something!

Can you lay off the tone policing? People are free to express their disagreement with other posters however they see fit.

 

[overedge]

A book by a retired skater about her life in a sport that most of the world ignores in between Olympics - and that includes information that will upset a lot of people in the tiny world of that sport - is not going to make money. At least not enough money to offset the costs of writing it. That is true for the majority of authors.

And no one writes a book to "practice writing". There are lots of ways to practice writing that don't involve the time and effort it takes to write a full-length book.

I think the title (So As Not To Disappear) is a pretty good explanation of why she wrote the book. She wants her story to be remembered, and she wants to tell her story herself so that her experiences are known. And so that her story is not overshadowed or distorted by other voices with their versions of the same story.

 

[MacMadame]

Message Boards are for opinions based on whatever the writer wants say!

Just like @Theatregirl1122 just did!

 

[Winnipeg]

Right, so you formed your opinion on her book based on what you assume it is like based on other books. Which is the same as nothing.

So? SFW it was just a comment about disclosure books in general......

 

[Winnipeg]

You may have been there before, but she hasn't.

Well apparently she has. Isn't that what the book is supposed to be about.

It is, after all, just a book. Nothing to get too excited about when others comment on it or even the idea of it.