Inspired by a recent “bad books” thread, are there books you have that are usually/ should be pulped - but you have them out of curiosity or interest (or to stop them circulating- one student of mine was firmly convinced one “memoir” was a true story)?
I started collecting “fakes”/“stolen” a little while back - my collection now includes a few like these:
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Norma Khouri and her fake memoir, “Forbidden Love” - the documentary called “Forbidden Lie$” by Anna Broinowski where she fact-checks, deconstructed the entire story and even discovers worse news is really excellent.
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“How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” is a young adult novel by Kaavya Viswanathan - and I have a copy that wasn’t pulped. Apparently the film deal was pulled after multiple incidents of plagiarism was detected.
I got a copy of Spycatcher from abroad when it was banned.
I also have some back alley press editions of Trotsky and Lenin that I found in a box at a car boot sale, along with something called the KGB training manual. Weird.