Beware writers of memoirs who LIE, you can be sued for actually writing fiction!
Look at former multi-awarded biking champion Lance Armstrong and his memoirs of alleged lies, now he's rightfully being sued!
If we want to buy fiction, we'd buy China's Mo Yan or Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez or USA's Ernest Hemingway plus many other literary talents, not bad fiction from an alleged liar and cheater!
I had also bought this book thinking it was non-fiction, I'm seriously (this is no joke!) thinking I should also file a lawsuit... but first I have to look for my copy of this book in my library. :)
(Two images below sourced from nydailynews.com)
Here's the news report:
Look at former multi-awarded biking champion Lance Armstrong and his memoirs of alleged lies, now he's rightfully being sued!
If we want to buy fiction, we'd buy China's Mo Yan or Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez or USA's Ernest Hemingway plus many other literary talents, not bad fiction from an alleged liar and cheater!
I had also bought this book thinking it was non-fiction, I'm seriously (this is no joke!) thinking I should also file a lawsuit... but first I have to look for my copy of this book in my library. :)
(Two images below sourced from nydailynews.com)
Here's the news report:
Lance Armstrong Sued for Peddling ‘Fiction’ as Memoir
By Edvard Pettersson - Jan 24, 2013 1:01 PM GMT+0800 Bloomberg News
Lance Armstrong, who admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs to win a record seven Tour de France titles, was sued by two California book buyers over claims he sold fiction as autobiography.
Rob Stutzman, a former communications adviser for Arnold Schwarzenegger, said in a complaint filed Jan. 22 in federal court in Sacramento that he wouldn’t have bought “It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life” had he known the truth about Armstrong’s misconduct and involvement with doping.
In the 2000 book and the 2003 follow-up, “Every Second Counts,” Armstrong denied ever having used banned substances and attributed his successes to “superior physical training, proper diet and an extraordinary spirit and drive to succeed,” Stutzman and co-plaintiff Jonathan Wheeler, a chef, said in the complaint.
The 41-year-old Armstrong, whose survival from testicular cancer helped create the largest athlete-founded charity in the U.S., was banned from competing in Olympic-level sports for life in October after the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency published a report that said it found proof he engaged in serial cheating though the use, administration and trafficking of testosterone, erythropoietin and blood transfusions.
Armstrong admitted to cheating in an interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast last week.
Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Armstrong, had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.
Stutzman met Armstrong privately in 2005 and told him “It’s Not About the Bike” was inspiring and that he had recommended the book to friends who were fighting cancer, according to the complaint.
The two plaintiffs seek to represent other California buyers of Armstrong’s books to recover unspecified damages against Armstrong and Penguin Group (USA) Inc., the publisher of “It’s Not About the Bike,” and against Random House Inc., the publisher of “Every Second Counts.”
They accuse Armstrong and the publishers of marketing the books as “true and honest” works of nonfiction and allege they violated California laws against unfair competition and false advertising, among other allegations.
Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House in New York, declined to comment on the allegations. Erica Glass, a Penguin spokeswoman, didn’t immediately return a call to her office.
The case is Stutzman v. Armstrong, 13-00116, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (Sacramento.)
(This image below sourced from guardian.co.uk)
Rob Stutzman, a former communications adviser for Arnold Schwarzenegger, said in a complaint filed Jan. 22 in federal court in Sacramento that he wouldn’t have bought “It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life” had he known the truth about Armstrong’s misconduct and involvement with doping.
The 41-year-old Armstrong, whose survival from testicular cancer helped create the largest athlete-founded charity in the U.S., was banned from competing in Olympic-level sports for life in October after the U.S.
Anti-Doping Agency published a report that said it found proof he engaged in serial cheating though the use, administration and trafficking of testosterone, erythropoietin and blood transfusions.
Armstrong admitted to cheating in an interview with Oprah Winfrey broadcast last week.
Books ‘Exposed’
“Both books have now been exposed as frauds,” the plaintiffs said. “Armstrong now admits that without his use of banned performance enhancing drugs beginning in the mid-1990’s, he would not have won and continued to win cycling races, including seven consecutive Tour de France races.”Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for Armstrong, had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.
Stutzman met Armstrong privately in 2005 and told him “It’s Not About the Bike” was inspiring and that he had recommended the book to friends who were fighting cancer, according to the complaint.
The two plaintiffs seek to represent other California buyers of Armstrong’s books to recover unspecified damages against Armstrong and Penguin Group (USA) Inc., the publisher of “It’s Not About the Bike,” and against Random House Inc., the publisher of “Every Second Counts.”
They accuse Armstrong and the publishers of marketing the books as “true and honest” works of nonfiction and allege they violated California laws against unfair competition and false advertising, among other allegations.
Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House in New York, declined to comment on the allegations. Erica Glass, a Penguin spokeswoman, didn’t immediately return a call to her office.
The case is Stutzman v. Armstrong, 13-00116, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (Sacramento.)
(This image below sourced from guardian.co.uk)
You want to sue, huh? What are your damages? Give me a break.
ReplyDeleteI see you also suffer from the disease of being a christian and believing in holy ghosts.
I feel sorry for you and your ignorant state of being.
Hi, I'm just partly kidding. I wrote that with some humor :)
DeleteSeriously, he had recently admitted on TV that he had not been honest, so isn't it true that his purported "memoirs" should rightfully be reclassified as "fiction" writing and not non-fiction? We readers and book buyers are also consumers and should also be protected from misinformation, right?
Cheers! Greetings from here in Asia.
By the way, as the Joker in the Batman film said: Who so serious? :)
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