I find that it is our human nature that try to
spice things up while giving other parties a loadown,because they buy it.That is why we enjoy watching movies with actors playing rather than the documentary ones.We also have the nature of accepting stories out of ordinary,sales meet the market.

Your comment about Augusten Burroughs having to change the designation of Running With Scissors from "memoir" to "book" is incorrect. RWS still states on the cover, as it always has, that the book is a memoir. Also, not one word of the manuscript as published was changed, even after the lawsuit was settled. A few additional words were added on the acknowledgements page stating that while everyone's memories can be somewhat different, the essential facts of the story are true. After three years of litigation, that was the plaintiffs "vindication." To connect Burroughs and Frey in the same vein of fraud and deception is unfair and simply wrong. Frey outright lied. Burroughs did not.

This is a good question. It's a tough one to answer because who wouldn't bend the truth a touch in a book. Remember there are always 2 sides to a story, you may never hear the second story and it's one persons perspective.
In the memoir i just read called Tatiana by Linda Mohr. I found myself enjoying the pictures many times, as well as frequently referring to the very unique presentation of an illustrated time line provided as part of the preface to the book.