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The Coming of the Fairies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.29 — 411 ratings — published 1921
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 4.12 — 97 ratings — published 1985
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.37 — 204 ratings — published 2010
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Martian Ghost Centaur (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.61 — 574 ratings — published 2021
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,801 ratings — published 2020
It Came From the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.91 — 618 ratings — published 2020
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,694 ratings — published 2002
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.62 — 544 ratings — published 2008
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 2.70 — 94 ratings — published 2009
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,818 ratings — published 2011
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.75 — 24 ratings — published 1944
The First Phone Call from Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,642 ratings — published 2013
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.60 — 8,375 ratings — published 2013
The Giant and How He Humbugged America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.53 — 328 ratings — published 2012
The Songs of Bilitis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.76 — 447 ratings — published 1894
Michelle Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 2.56 — 759 ratings — published 1980
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.83 — 138,218 ratings — published 1977
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.52 — 277 ratings — published 1984
Dear Editor . . .: The Collected Letters of Oscar Brittle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 2009
Covid-19: The Greatest Hoax in History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published
The Case for Israel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,723 ratings — published 2003
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.20 — 841 ratings — published 1987
Three Black Swans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,890 ratings — published 2010
The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,870 ratings — published 2002
Memoirs of a Cavalier (The World's Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.24 — 93 ratings — published 1720
The Crystal Skull: The story of the mystery, myth, and magic of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull discovered in a lost Mayan city during a search for Atlantis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.35 — 37 ratings — published 1973
Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.18 — 282 ratings — published 2016
Creating Chistianity: A Weapon Of Ancient Rome (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.56 — 78 ratings — published 2018
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.94 — 157,907 ratings — published 2009
Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.59 — 224 ratings — published
Extra Nutty! Even More Letters from a Nut! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.92 — 483 ratings — published 2000
Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,690 ratings — published 2024
Loch Ness Uncovered: Media, Misinformation, and the Greatest Monster Hoax of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.83 — 121 ratings — published
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,375 ratings — published 2021
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,029 ratings — published 2014
The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul's Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.91 — 141 ratings — published
All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.05 — 825 ratings — published
A Book of Fifty Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 1920
The Holocaust Hoax Exposed (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.40 — 53 ratings — published 2012
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,279 ratings — published 1878
Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; and the ... ... L. Stevens, Esq., and Other Travellers. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 1850
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,045,005 ratings — published 2023
False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.10 — 26,744 ratings — published 2020
A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.69 — 263,870 ratings — published 2003
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,991 ratings — published 1987
Anaruk, chłopiec z Grenlandii (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 2.88 — 1,167 ratings — published 1937
The Necronomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.20 — 3,159 ratings — published 1977
The Spectra Hoax (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1966
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.78 — 106,499 ratings — published 2015
“As for the claims by the Congolese historian Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem (“13 million killed” in 1998, then “5 to 10 million killed” in 2008), they are hard to keep track of. Initially, the starting year for his assertions was 1880 (five years before the EIC was founded and ten years before any rubber harvesting) while the latter estimate extended the end year to 1930 (22 years after the EIC). A second edition of the latter estimate, without explanation, moved up the starting date to 1885. Ndaywel cites no data or methods. All three editions of his book merely cite Moulin. It is notable that in a lengthy essay on the EIC published in L’Histoire in 2020, Ndaywel no longer makes any specific population claims, asserting only that the effects of the EIC were “worse than grim” (“plus que macabres”). In the end, Ndaywel is not credible. His works are published by the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium because he is black. This helps them to “decolonize Eurocentric narratives,” which means using blacks as shadow puppets to shield their radical accounts from criticism.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
“For the past 25 years, the idea of the Congo has been closely linked in the Western imagination to the 1998 book King Leopold’s Ghost by the American journalist Adam Hochschild. The book is widely assigned in high schools and colleges, and it regularly tops best-seller lists in colonial, African, and Western history. Hochschild has become a sort of king of the Congo, or at least of its history. The book is reflexively cited by reputable scholars in their footnotes any time they wish to assert that it is “well known” and “beyond doubt” that sinister men in Europe wrought havoc in Africa over a century ago. Any discussion of the Congo, or of European colonialism more generally, invariably begins with the question: “Have you read King Leopold’s Ghost?” I have read it. And I can declare that it is a vast hoax, full of distortions and errors both numerous and grave. Some people might view “King Hochschild’s Hoax,” as we might call it, as an empowering fable for modern Africans at the expense of the white man.”
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