Publishers of the religious based book of memoirs recording the incident of a 6 year who was wounded in a car accident in 2004 has been pulled from shelves. The popular million dollar best seller "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven is said to be all made up and not true. The author of the popular seller now 17 years old said that he made up the entire story. In a brief letter written to publishers PulPit and Pen Alex Malarkey wrote with help from his sister " Please forgive this brevity but because of my limitations I have to keep this short. I did not die. I did not go to heaven." In the letter the 17 year continues with statements verfying he made up the entire story to gain attention. He also wrote that before the accident he had never read the Bible. The best-seller book gives the encounters of moments while Alex Marlarkey was in a coma and where he stated he met and spoke with Jesus and also the devil was co-authored by the boy's father Kevin Marklarkey. The boy's mother claimed also she wanted to stop the publishing of the book earlier in April 2014 confided in her pastor the book was not true. However, her pastor told her the book was blessing people. The large sums of monies and royalities were not collected by the authors, but supported charities. Alex Malarkey according to the Washington post confessed the book's story was not true long before now, but Tuesday, January 13, 2015 was his first public statement claiming recantment of his story.
In the letter written to the publishers Alex also stated:
"People have profited from lies and they continue to. They should read the Bible which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man is infallible."--Alex Malarkey
I didn't read this book but there was a similar one titled Heaven is For Real.
Saturday, January 17th 2015 at 4:31AM
Steve Williams
Steve this is the same story, according to the news source it was written as "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" however, it may have been its original title and possibly it was changed by the publishers. You are correct ...The Book and also movie is titled "Heaven is For Real." The movie was released in April 2014. So, it's the same book you've read. Thanks for a noteworthy follow up. We know news sources and stories are not always true or correct either, -- at least I do. :)
I'm not sure they are the same. The one I read is about a 4 year old whose experience was during an emergency appendectomy. His name is Burpo. This one may have gotten the idea from Burpo's story.
Saturday, January 17th 2015 at 9:41AM
Steve Williams
Interesting, but there is definitely a similarity.
Those are two different books with two different kids. See below ...
..."Colton Burpo, the subject of the book-turned-movie "Heaven is for Real," says he stands by his story and that Jesus "really, really loves you," just days after another boy, Alex Malarkey, who had also claimed to have visited heaven and had a book based on his experience, revealed that he lied.
"I know there has been a lot of talk about the truth of other Heaven stories in the past few days," says Burpo on his website.
Burpo says he went to Heaven, met Jesus and saw Mary and the angels when he underwent emergency surgery to have his appendix removed when he was four. His story is similar to Malarkey's claims in the book, The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven."...
