In my last reflection I talked about how I don't think that genre really matters in a book and that the quality and content is the key. Its pretty fitting that we are talking about this next, stealing my topic ideas Mr.Coates? Just kidding, or am I? Anyways, what the book is doesn't really matter it pretty much every case. If opera said that it was one of the best stories she has ever heard then is it important if it were true or not? Does it being true make you feel more emotions towards the characters in the book knowing they were real or not? I guess it would but, how do you know Harry Potter isn't real? Prove me wrong and I'm talking hard evidence! I could careless if some guy lied about things in his book because all in all, its just a book and in a book is a story. What really matters if it is a good story with good plot and good characters. If you sold 1 million copies of a book and 100k people took it back, you still sold 900k books. Must've been a solid story with characters and plot that made the reader feel emotion towards it. And if you really think about it, most of those people that bought those books are just sheep following a herd, and the shepard is named Opera. When you watch a movie that says "BASED ON A TRUE STORY", do you really think that everything that happened in the movie happened in real life? Lawless for example, the dude got shot, stabbed, and his neck slit open and lived. I HIGHLY doubt all of that actually happened the way it did. Sure, he probably got cut and shot once or twice and maybe even nicked in the throat but, everything is an exaggeration of the truth in some way.
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