One And A Half Cups Of Tea
According to a segment on 60 Minutes, Greg Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea is one cup short of reality. After exposing one questionable aspect after another, the show featured John Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and In Thin Air, saying that Mortenson’s book “is a beautiful story, and it’s a lie.” Mortenson refused to comment, but in his defense author James Frey said, “Three cups, two cups, a million little pieces of cups. Come on, it’s not like numbers and math are an accurate science or anything.” Jayson Blair added, “Hey, he’s just putting the fiction back in non-fiction. What’s so wrong with that?”
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