NIGHT LISTENER (spoiler)

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<a href=” http://www.hollywood.com/content/feature_detail.aspx?id=3539786&p=1 //” target=”_blank”>Here’s</a> a good overview, while <a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2784838&page=1
//” target=”_blank”>this</a> provides a follow-up.

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  1. NOTE – THIS POST CONTAINS A QUASI- SPOILER ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK.

    I guess like you, I don’t like lies and figuring out that something is a fake immediately makes it unpleasant or more to the point unwelcome here – if that makes sense.

    there was a mystery novel a few years ago that purported was written by X and it turned out X was a completely fiction. It was set, as i recall in the 30s, and the author supposedly was a ground-breaker in a field where few women were employed. turned out to be a total fake. the book was…okay…nothing great, but the second i read the afterward, I lost all interest ALL interest in the book. I don’t like being fooled, i don’t like surprises. I really hate most surprises, don’t know why exactly but I do, BIG TIME and that sort of thing makes me feel manipulated, which I also don’t like. i just shut down when I learn I’ve been fooled by someone/something even when no ill or wrong intention was (um er) intended. (sorry about that).

    I am aware when I watch a tear-jerker/read a tear-jerker that sometimes my emotions are being manipulated. I suppose that’s true often; but if I don’t NOTICE it, I can handle it. If I notice, then I have a problem.

    Maupin is clearly more forgiving than I; I would never have been able to let it go as he has.

  2. I think Maupin, as a novelist, couldn’t help admiring the fiction that this person created. Also, true or not, he got something out of it. As he said (paraphrasing) the “boy” seemed to be whoever others needed him to be.

    But I always feel so ashamed and undermined by betrayal that I find it very hard to forgive.

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