Well, I tried to look it up on the Library of Congress site, but I couldn't get the search results to load. I then went to worldcatlibraries.org, and they show the following subjects, which indicate it should probably be considered nonfiction.
Subjects Downing, Thomas. Horse trainers -- Biography. African Americans -- Biography. I'm only on page 25, but it doesn't seem like most biographies I've read. Melissa Smith On 4/14/2010 12:43 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
I just looked at it on Amazon and if I had just come across it without reading any comments here I think I would have just assumed that it was nonfiction. Since it is being questioned, though, I am unsure after having just read the synopsis. Let me ask you this, When you read it did you get the sense that you were reading a novel or a memoir? Did you get the sense that the primary purpose of the author was to entertain even if there might have been secondary purposes? Again, fiction and nonfiction are not equal to truth and falsehood. If that was the case, most fiction might remain fiction, but a tremendous amount of nonfiction would have to be reclassified as fiction. Entire sections of occult books in libraries would have to be moved to fiction._ _ _"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours"Stephen Roberts The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Smith" <mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:56 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Qustion on appropriate categoryWell, there isn't a creative nonfiction category on bookshare. The book doesn't have the library of Congress cataloging information. It is "A Forgotten Horseman: A son's weekend Memoir" by Lee E. Downing, copyright 2006, ISBN: 1599758806. If anyone can find it in their library and see how it is cataloged, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Melissa SmithTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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