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Does the concept of Ghost Writing bother anybody else?

Duck Rodgers

Duck Rodgers

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I've read a couple of Bear Grylls' books in the past year or so that were both over the top good. So I kind of have a positive impression of the guy now. I don't know him, he could be a scum bag, but he seems like a good guy based on the books. Lead an interesting life. And he can really write.....maybe. If he even wrote any parts of them. But that's kind of inconsequential because he is just an entertainer..

But how about politicians for instance? I don't know Mitt Romney personally, so I read his books. Read Obama's books. Have read lot of Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, etc. etc. I don't know how much any of them contributed to those books. What if I voted for them just based on their books and they had nothing to do with them another than stamping their approval?

Or what if somebody targets a college, say Stanford or Columbia, because they liked Thomas Sowell or Joseph Stiliglitz' economic views and was hoping to learn from them because they enjoyed their books? But what if they just had somebody else write them to establish or enhance their credibility and you find out you would have been better of paying the Ghostwriter $60,000/year to be your personal servant/teacher instead of going to school?

Or how about you buy a novel from one of your favorite fiction writers that turns out to be a total stinker....and you never actually find out....but it could have sucked because he never even wrote it.

Or you read a Bill Gross book that he didn't actually write and decide to invest in his bond fund.

And there are probably 100 more derivative scenarios that I'm too stupid to think of. And just not books either. Newspaper columns, music, anything really. It's just weird that credence can be given to someone's opinions/character via books they may have never written that nevertheless say they are written by them. Just seems fraudulent.
 
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No way that show stands the test of time. I'm going to have go watch an episode on Youtube one of these days to see though now.
 
To an extent. If I know someone is being ghost-written for it makes me think less of them as entertainers/talents, but it's not like you can discredit everything they do.

And as far as celebrities and politicians who write books, is that really considered ghost writing when it credits the authors who helped them write it?
 
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Ya, we know why Ghost Writers bug you.

Harry Potter would be proud.
 
leftyjace said:
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Ya, we know why Ghost Writers bug you.

Harry Potter would be proud.
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Nom de plumes are rad. Pretty crazy to see how many people snapped up the book when it became known it was her. What if JK Rowling wrote Glenn Beck's fiction books though? The one I've read was pretty damn good, I'm almost certain it was Brad Thor or one of his other author buddies that wrote it though.
 
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And as far as celebrities and politicians who write books, is that really considered ghost writing when it credits the authors who helped them write it?
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They usually don't at least in my sample of reading. Occasionally you'll get a with _____ or something, but these people want you to think it's them usually.
 
As long as the actual person approves of it - why not? Not everyone can put down exactly what they think/feel eloquently into written words.
 
Patterson is blatantly using his name as marketing only recently.

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But ghost-writing per se doesn't bother me. I would rather read a coherent story of someone's life, than say, Mike Tyson-speak. Or Karl Malone-speak.

"Karl born in Loosiana. Karl mamma raise Karl up good. Karl 2 feet tall in da foth grade."
 
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Nothing irks me more than Glenn Beck claiming to be an author. His Agenda book is oh-so-annoying, and the hordes of mindless ninnies eat that **** up as if it were gospel.
 
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You should look into how much ghost writing plays into research on Pharmaceutical trials. It'll shock you.

Healy is a good source for this.
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You should look into how cool it is to be such a trick-*** bitch that whenever someone hurts your "Feel Bad's" you just take your ball and go home, er, delete your account. Put the cherry on top when you come back disguised as a different user, deny that you are said piece of monkey spunk, and continue to spread your infantile, pompous, and utterly worthless contributions all over the board. Oh ya, make sure you disparage the people who work their asses off for you to continue to be the colorful little twât that you are, you ungrateful sack of shìt.

Eat a fat one, NAOS. A big, fat, hairy one.

I'll take that one, thank you.
 
E.J. Wells said:
You should look into how cool it is to be such a trick-*** bitch that whenever someone hurts your "Feel Bad's" you just take your ball and go home, er, delete your account. Put the cherry on top when you come back disguised as a different user, deny that you are said piece of monkey spunk, and continue to spread your infantile, pompous, and utterly worthless contributions all over the board. Oh ya, make sure you disparage the people who work their asses off for you to continue to be the colorful little twât that you are, you ungrateful sack of shìt.

Eat a fat one, NAOS. A big, fat, hairy one.

I'll take that one, thank you.
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It's fun for me to think about how terrible your life must be.
 
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It's fun for me to think about how terrible your life must be.
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That really says a lot about you, but of course, most of us already know what dick bag you are. Did I mention that you're a tool? Not just any tool, we're talking "Anal-Bead" variety.
 
E.J. Wells said:
That really says a lot about you, but of course, most of us already know what dick bag you are. Did I mention that you're a tool? Not just any tool, we're talking "Anal-Bead" variety.
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I'm the tool? ****ing hell man, you've been selling the same **** for as long as you've been moping around this board. Minus the three or four people that somehow continue to be entertained by it, everyone else feels the sting of a long-ago-tired shtick. Is there a better definition for "tool". No.
 
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