True Story tie-in edtion
Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

It’s fair to say that Michael Finkel had a pretty dramatic 2002. He went from being an award-winning journalist working at the prestigious New York Times to a publicly disgraced pariah whose career was suddenly in the shitter! How? In a story about child slavery on West African cocoa plantations, he......more

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful: What's one man's demise is another's redemption...or is it?, June 2, 2006 Michael Finkel wrote this book in an effort to alter the popular opinion that he is a dishonest reporter who falsified his articles. He wrote with one objective in mind - to......more

Omg! What a book! I picked this book because I saw the preview of the movie.Since it is based on true story I wanted to understand the story before it hits in the movie theater . I started reading the book three days ago and could not rest until I finished it. This story is about a con man who is co......more

As stated during the reading updates, I'd seen the James Franco, Noah Hill film and found the story intriguing since it bore a vague similarity to the adaptation of In Cold Blood due to the murders of innocent people. When I learned the film has been adapted, I make an effort to track the book down.......more

The story is interesting enough, but there's only so much ego-stroking I can handle. Finkel and Longo, the two narcissists at the center of the story, have more in common than I think Finkel cares to acknowledge. Their story shares the same narrative. In a work of fiction, I would consider this an i......more