Tonight I saw someone post about a book that is available on Amazon.com called "The Many Deaths of Virginia Tech" by Chuck Marsh. I am purposefully not linking to the item itself because I do not want to provide the page with any more traffic than it's already gotten. But to give you an idea just what the book is about, here is the description listed on Amazon:
"Virginia Tech is America's Cursed College, home to horrifying events from hit-and-runs to students being shot in the woods; prison escapes to public self-mutilations; police officers being gunned down to public beheadings; and of course, the notorious mass shooting that killed 33 people. But why is Virginia Tech the most infamous university in the United States? What is the reason for Virginia Tech's many tragedies?
Chuck Marsh has written the only book of its kind: a gripping and frightening account of the Hokie Horrors. The Many Deaths of Virginia Tech is a spellbinding chronicle -- an expose -- of an oversized American university locked in a death-struggle with itself -- or with unseen forces. This book takes the reader on a tour through the many crimes and calamities at Virginia Tech in the past decade: a no-holds-barred account of an out-of-control hunger for violence at an American university."
I am very much for free speech, and not censoring people, but the amount of slander, bias lies, and outright nonsense (read a few sentences of the "Look Inside" and I'm sure you'll agree) in that is in this book should not be something that anyone should read, much less someone should profit off of.
I do not know how many people in this course were here during the shootings and the many other events, but I hope you will all stand behind me and sign the petition I created to get Amazon to remove this book from its website and be sure to share it with your friends, family, co-workers, anyone that supports Virginia Tech.
I am proud to be a Hokie and the Hokie Nation is even stronger, not "cursed" as he calls it, after all the events that have taken place on campus. Help me show Chuck Marsh what it means to be a Hokie.
it is sad that my (our) Hokie nation is branded as 'cursed'.
ReplyDeleteI tried to google the author, but I failed to find any reference of him having studied at Tech. Has he?
If not,I fail to understand, as to what makes his claim or 'expose' remotely viable or justified???
To understand appreciate any institution, you need to be a part of it. Clearly, he cannot.