Chernobyl fallout

[peteryoung]

Fred Kiesche (WRSBOLJ instead of Blogspot) has pointed me to this Slashdot post that indicates the story I previously posted a link to here - about a Russian biker chick who takes solo trips around Chernobyl and has since been featured in newspapers around the world - is probably being rather economical with the pravda. Looking around, I see her website now has an added "author's note" in which she points out: "I am being accused that it was more poetry in this story than reality. I partly accept this accusation...", and I've also found this as more circumstantial evidence for the prosecution, m'lud.

Oh dear.

Comments

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Aw. Shame.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am so disappointed. I loved that whole story. If she'd said up front it was fictional I might have some grudging respect for the story, but not now....

[maryread.livejournal.com]

I don't care! it was a good story. Lovely and poetic. What is this literary fetish for supposedly objective fact? I like the kind of stories that are truer than the newspapers or history books.

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

I think it was (and is) incredible enough to see it all without the fantasy. I'm curious as to why she needed to "lie" about the circumstantial realities around the journey, if indeed that is what she has done. If she had presented the trip as partly a biking fantasy it would have been just as impressive, perhaps more so as we could indulge her imagination with her.

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

It's a shame the heroine's gone, but the genuine spookiness and sadness of the place is certainly real enough. I don't think I'll ever forget it.

The Truth is Out There

[(Anonymous)]

"(WRSBOLJ instead of Blogspot)"

Que?

Anyway: If she had written it as fiction it should have been stated as fiction. If it were fact, terrific. But if it ain't the truth, then it's about as legit as a Michael Moore "documentary".

FPK3

Re: The Truth is Out There

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

Que?

"Who Really Should Be On LiveJournal". Acronyms like this are a way of referring to friends who are not on LJ. I would normally have used WINOLJ (work it out).

Re: The Truth is Out There

[(Anonymous)]

Ah fans...acronyms...etc.

Yep, I'd love to be on Live Journal, but as I found out, they have made it impossible for me to join. I can't pick out a password to satisfy them, they don't like any of the user names I choose, and I can't get their freaking security code thing to work.

So, I'll remain apart from the journaling/channeling masses...

Re: The Truth is Out There

[del-c.livejournal.com]

You know, somebody could make a Livejournal for you, then hand over the keys (or in this case the password).

Why not suggest some of the LJ names you would like, in order of preference?