Reviews
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
kalifer's review
It's not that it wasn't interesting, I was just having trouble getting through the audiobook. Shall pick up later when I have the physical book.
cook_memorial_public_library's review against another edition
4.0
Recommended by Joe.
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avinawood's review against another edition
slow-paced
Would be best for someone who already has a good history of hoaxes. This is just discussion and a lot of it will be confusing if you have no background knowledge of famous hoaxes. Or you'll have to do a lot of outside reading while reading this to get a full picture.
treehuggeranonymous's review against another edition
1.0
Did not finish, but got as far through it as I could before I just gave up. This is such an interesting topic - scams - so why was it soooooo boring. And why was it organised so weirdly - it seemed to jump forward from the 1920s to 1990s in a mere sentence. I don't know if it goes back in time after that, cos you'd hope a book on scams would want to spend some time talking patent medicine. This book feels suspiciously like it started as an article specifically about a few modern scams (mostly the million little pieces guy that is gone on about forever) and other material was dragged out to make it book length.