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Title: faulty research, faulty premise
Review: Physically, this book is poor quality. This paperback has out of focus pictures, larger-than-normal print, and seems very flimsy.That's just the outside. On the inside, the book is not only poorly written, it is poorly researched and begins with the faulty premise that Clay Aiken is only a star because his fans made him one. That's just dumb.I say poorly researched because she did not really look into what the fanboard culture is like at all. She left out huge chunks of fan history by only focusing on a few small boards, which aren't indicative of the larger groups. (Small boards may have 100 members or less, while other boards range from 1000 to over 10,000.) If this is supposed to be a sociological study of Clay's internet fanbase... it fails completely on so many levels.Considering everything, I would say this book is a waste of money to purchase. My copy is going out by way of the trash bin.
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