Even if a non-fiction book, such as a memoir, is written that would be completely true, it is still not. Our minds change our memories each time we think back to them. If an author kept looking back to remember what happened, then it would change a little each time. So that would mean that everything has fiction to it. In my mind though, without the whole memory thing, I would want the book to be about 75% true at least. I understand that authors need to add a little something special to the book so that people would want to read their book. I personally don’t read non-fiction books that much since I find them boring. So if it has a little more action then how it originally happened I’m okay with it. Most people do not have these amazing life stories, or even a completely amazing moment in their life that others would care about.
It’s like if someone’s cat got hit on the road right then and there, it would be nearly as interesting if the cat got hit but ran a ways before dying(which actually happened to a cat I had when I was younger…just saying) . You would be much more “entertained” by the second story. The points of most books are to be entertaining, give knowledge, and to sell. Knowledgeable books don’t sell as much as an entertaining book. So if a somewhat knowledgeable book wanted to sell, it would have to bend the facts/ truth. Nothing really exciting happens when you tell the whole truth.
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