Talk:I, Libertine

So...
The genre listed is "Fake novel, Literary hoax" -- the novel is in fact real and its genre likewise can't be nested into its hoax origin. The genre is in fact libertine.

Was it a bestseller or not? Skomorokh incite  13:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

There really needs to be more detail on how the book went from being a hoax to being a real book. --Mr. Snow (talk) 17:45, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Shepherd eventually proved his point that the process of choosing bestsellers was flawed. How? This is really light on detail. Fumblebruschi (talk) 22:59, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean "how?" It was listed as a "best seller" when it didn't exist. Its actual sales would inevitably be zero. Thats a pretty big flaw in the best sellers list. --203.4.253.174 (talk) 20:10, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

The hoax continues. I read every best seller list published in 1956 by the New York Times, which carried the list in its Sunday book section. I, Libertine appears on none. And even though the NYT and Wall Street Journal ran several articles in 1956 about the hoax, they never mentioned the book appearing on any best seller lists. Indeed, to my knowledge, no source in 1956 mentioned it. It wasn't until years later that the unsupported claim appears, probably initiated by Shepherd himself, who frequently bent the truth in favor of a good story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Don Columbia (talk • contribs) 12:43, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Unneccessary quote
"Here is the text describing Ewing and the novel's storyline as it appears on the back cover:"...okay? why? There is no commentary on it. In addition to that, I don't see how this is really a hoax. He told people to ask for a fake book, then when stores started looking for it, he had someone write one up.. sounds like clever marketing.--58.230.124.16 (talk) 11:27, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Reread the article. It started as a hoax. Eventually it was brought into reality, but this was, in a way, still part of the hoax because they wanted to pretend the book had been real all along. It wasn't marketing. --DearPrudence (talk) 06:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, while that may be there is still no explanation for copying the text wholesale off the back of the book. With no commentary or anything else, this doesn't qualify as fair use.--58.230.124.16 (talk) 03:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I never said it did. :) You brought up two different issues and I responded to the second.


 * In any case, I'm removing the blurbs, but next time be bold and take it out yourself if you suspect it violates copyright. --DearPrudence (talk) 18:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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