For a non-fiction book I would say that it can have a 10% of it being a lie. Mostly because not everyone is going to remember a conversation exactly how it happened. Also someone may be giving parts that they want the reader to know. They may be hiding part of their story that could affect the way they want the reader to feel. Another reason is that, they in their mind may add some unreal details that may have never accrued, but they did in their mind. And Plus nobody is perfect. We all have lied about something personal or given our version of something that may have occurred in our head.

For the Authors that lied in their memoirs I’m ok with it. As long that it’s a good book, and fun to read. Like I said before we aren’t perfect. Yeah sure they did go over board and lied to many people. But before that information was released, did it really matter. I as a reader don’t care that they lied because if the book was amazingly amazing then it’s a great book. Look If Oprah thought it was good than it good. So just get over it to those that dislike the authors that lied to them. Once again we aren’t perfect.

How we label the book, I believe we should be a bit more lenient in who we label the book. Because I agree with Nicholas Sparks that if you label an author to a certain genre they feel obligated to write only in that type of genre. And I think that’s unfair, you never know if that author could be very good writing different types of books that aren’t that genre.