Well, a lot of people responded already, but here, I'm really sorry. Quick little fun fact, she's a co-author, AFAIK, what happened is, she rambled on and on about her stories and shit, and an actual author put that nonsense into written, readable form, so actually, the book MIGHT be readable. Still stupid as fuck, but readable. Saddest thing is, even though it was written like that, she now calls herself an author.
EDIT: oh... oh dear god... I just read the "highlights" someone mentioned... My brain cells... I can feel them killing themselves. It's THE most idiotic thing I've ever read. It... IT HUUUURTS!!!
Paris Hilton's dog is an author. And Michael Jackson's monkey doesn't even cite a ghostwriter on the cover.
I think you're disingenuously overestimating to what modern, non-academic authorship implies. People are given book deals not because they're grammar police, but because they have something other people may pay to hear. Sometimes that is Snooki's attempts at erotica, sci fi written by models. But the requirement for modern, pop authorship isn't literacy or even writing ability, a publishing house can provide ghostwriters and editors to fake those.
http://www.amazon.com/Shore-Thing-Nicole-Snooki-Polizzi/dp/1451623747
Like it..I dare you.
What about the bobble heads book?
Lost on a Barnes and Noble bookshelf somewhere, as new copies of A Shore Thing are constantly restocked in front of it.
I pity the guy who had to proofread Snooki's book.
No, wait. I take that back. She didn't write it in the first place.
A Shore Thing by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Check out the tags toward the bottom haha
Well, a lot of people responded already, but here, I'm really sorry. Quick little fun fact, she's a co-author, AFAIK, what happened is, she rambled on and on about her stories and shit, and an actual author put that nonsense into written, readable form, so actually, the book MIGHT be readable. Still stupid as fuck, but readable. Saddest thing is, even though it was written like that, she now calls herself an author.
EDIT: oh... oh dear god... I just read the "highlights" someone mentioned... My brain cells... I can feel them killing themselves. It's THE most idiotic thing I've ever read. It... IT HUUUURTS!!!
Oh, it gets worse..
http://www.amazon.com/Shore-Thing-Nicole-Snooki-Polizzi/dp/1451623747
Has a "NY Times Bestselling Author" label on it in stores now.
http://www.amazon.com/Shore-Thing-Nicole-Snooki-Polizzi/dp/1451623747
Paris Hilton's dog is an author. And Michael Jackson's monkey doesn't even cite a ghostwriter on the cover.
I think you're disingenuously overestimating to what modern, non-academic authorship implies. People are given book deals not because they're grammar police, but because they have something other people may pay to hear. Sometimes that is Snooki's attempts at erotica, sci fi written by models. But the requirement for modern, pop authorship isn't literacy or even writing ability, a publishing house can provide ghostwriters and editors to fake those.
They can't fake a brand.