How Do Rumors Get Started.
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One of the best songs from Club Nouveau, a very popular song when I was Freshman in High School. The title of the song says it all, it's one of those songs that describes life in school to a T. I love this song and still do to this day, it's one song once you hear it you will be like I experienced that.

Kris L. CocKayne
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Nice little backstories that fill in what some people have been considering plotholes (How could a janitor know how to fight with a lightsaber? How come Rey can fly the Millenium Falcon?). It's definitely a quick read but worth it if you want to be able to smugly tell your critical fanboy friends what's what.
2652006
What were considered rumors about the wild lifestyles of the Oakland  Raiders are actually truths according to one of the leaders, Kenny Stabler.  Drinking, honky-tonking, reading the playbook by the jukebox light,  womanizing and oh yes - football are some of the sideshows in this book.  This is not only about the "Snake" but also about the other  characters from the Oakland Raiders during their heyday.
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The plot will hold you if you are just starting story. Eventually you find a small doubt in your mind that will slowly creep in, as to what is actually happening.
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The story starts interestingly but ends up coming down to who's is lying and who is actually who. It gets a little silly near the end.
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Good opener to the topic, but little evidence for people that have no had this actually happen to them. Would recommend and would buy again. Another great book is Chameleo by Robert Guffey. I have reason to believe that a lot of info they used to track, follow and harass me came from Facebok. Get rid of that crap now!
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This new series is a spin off from the Gossip Girl series (which I recommend if you haven't read any yet).

Jenny Humphrey went to Constance Billard in NYC with the others from the Gossip Girl series and 'kind of' got kicked out. She wanted to start over in a fresh place with people who don't know anything about her.

Well, the popular crowd at her new boarding school Waverly Academy are gossips too. There are already many rumors going around about Jenny and who she really is. She learns that she can just ignore the rumors and have fun flirting and partying like the rest of the popular crowd.

I hope this series stays as good as the first book and doesn't go downhill like the Gossip Girl series did. I can't wait to read the next book due out in April 2006.
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Any given time this could be going on in the United States. This gives insight on who and how these plots could come to
Fruition.
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This is so typical of gossips and how they don't realize how they hurt people.  I hate to give away plots but I will say: "Be careful of what you say, where you say it and and is listening."
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In a culture being crafted largely by ad and PR gurus, one needs the kind of background information provided in "Trust us..." in order to "think critically". Naturally, PR interests are going to attack the authors, as in the almost humorously-transparent critiques from anonymous writers.
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this book makes you think of what if?.the main Caratter is a strategists in the making . a very good book that gives you the info / plotting,that you need to keep reading to find out if the story Turns out or not.
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Four friends at High School started a game called The Lying Game. They got points based on their lies and the more elaborate or more people believed, the more points they got. That was until tragedy struck and the four girls did something that night that they never thought they would and eventually they were kicked out of the school and for three of them, they never returned to Salten. Now fifteen years later, the four of them will reunite when they receive a text message reading "I need you." Isa, now a mum takes her baby to Salten, Thea arrives and Fatima. Their friend Kate has summoned them. A body part has washed ashore, and the part could be connected to Kate's dad who died those many years ago, and they hid his body in the water. Many people thought that he wouldn't just disappear and that the girls had something to do with his disappearance. What will happen though when all four starts to receive text messages, notes, and photos - with the message I know what you did. Read as the one lie that could ruin them forever starts to unravel and in the process ruin the lives that they have created when the lies start to affect the families.  I didn't see the twist coming and was shocked at the real truth about what happened that fateful night. The stalker, I did guess that part pretty early on. If you are looking for a high school reunion, scandals and secrets from the past being uncovered, then check out UK author Ruth Ware's book "The Lying Game," a mystery that won't disappoint.
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The modern-day National Enquirer is a magazine tabloid that focuses primarily on celebrities and prominent figures, and essentially operates as a rumor mill; gossip, stories, exaggerations, and even resorting to actively fabricating elements of the story.

Suetonius is not a reporter, but neither is he a liar out to make up juicy stories.

In The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius essentially puts together stories, and TELLS YOU which stories he heard, and their believability.  HE ACTIVELY TELLS YOU THAT A CERTAIN STORY IS ALMOST ENTIRELY LIKELY TO BE FICTIONAL, AND TELLS YOU TO BE AWARE THAT IT IS, AND THAT HE ONLY INCLUDES IT HERE FOR THE SAKE OF LETTING YOU KNOW THAT IT IS POSSIBLY FICTIONAL, AS WELL AS FOR COMPLETIONIST'S SAKE.

Suetonius's accounts are quite riveting, and unlike Titus Livius or Herodotos, he doesn't lie or embellish his stories, except for when he points out that a story is likely fictional or exaggerated.

The greatest likelihood is that these stories were the sort being circulated around the Roman world which he copies down, and after warning us that it is unauthentifiable or likely fictional tells us, basically, "make of it what you will"
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The book is halfway through before the story starts coming out. More could have been out into the beginning of the story.
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When Pope John Paul I died suddenly after only 33 days into his Papacy, conspiracy theories and rumors of murder erupted because of inconsistencies in the Vatican's statements. Officially, the Pope died of a heart attack, but there were conflicting stories as to who found the body, what time the body was found, what time the Pope died, which spawned further questions outside the Vatican about things like why there was no autopsy, why the embalming began so soon, etc. And as time went on, the murder-conspiracy theories got really out of hand.
John Cornwell, who also wrote Hitler's Pope, investigates these allegations as an independent journalist, ten years after the fact. He interviews all the major Vatican players, gains access to the current Pope, and learns very little new information. Except that there is all sorts of confusion about aspects of that night which seems to be inherent to the way the Vatican is run, not specifically to why this pope died. Cornwell ultimately comes up with his own theory of what happened that night.
Each chapter is pretty much a transcript of one of Cornwell's interviews. It goes something like this: I arrived here, had to get through red tape, finally got permission to talk to so and so, and this is what they said to me: transcript. I found it pretty uninspiring.
If there is any interest to be found here at all, it's the glimpse you get into the Vatican. One of the advantages of having so much of the book be in other people's words, is the immediate access the reader has into the personalities that make up the Vatican. There is so much gossip going on it and so much back-stabbing, at times it feels like a soap opera. As far as Cornwell's investigation goes, it's pretty wimpy. Yeah, he talks to a bunch of people, and he does find out some interesting tidbits that clear up a few minor points up, but all in all, there was very little here to warrant a book. He should have written a magazine article and been done with it.
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An inside look at the start of a project that could possibly help us understand whats going on behind those ever watchful eyes.
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Rumors is a page turner.  I couldn't put it down. I was so intensely waiting for  the next chapter.  Rumors is a page turner that's easy to read within a day.