[freedomson]

Read the book and then ask yourself, what kind of mind could have made this stuff up. Again, if it's fiction, just what experiences in life could have shaped this imagination? You've never read anything even remotely like it.

[Eagle Eye]

Kosinki was proven to be a liar and fraud on many levels.

That is the kind of mind that writes books like his.

[wideminded]

"The Painted Bird, ostensibly semi-autobiographical, was demonstrated to be a work of fiction: rather than wandering the Polish countryside, Kosin´ski had spent the war years in hiding with a Polish Catholic family and had never been appreciably mistreated. Kosin´ski defended himself by arguing that he had never maintained that the book was based on true events." - link