"A Million Little Pieces" - James Frey

[thouragood jankins]

Has anybody else read this book, I'm just starting on it, got the first 20 pages done, this sounds very good, just wanted to hear some feedback of your guys opinions on it...

thouragood jankins Reviewed by thouragood jankins on 06-10-2006. "A Million Little Pieces" - James Frey Has anybody else read this book, I'm just starting on it, got the first 20 pages done, this sounds very good, just wanted to hear some feedback of your guys opinions on it... Rating: 5

[closeddoors]

I read it before all that shit with Oprah and everything. It was really good I thought. Then everyone started saying it was shit after the whole Oprah thing because a lot of it was supposedly not true. It was still a good book though in my opinion.

[thouragood jankins]

Dude screw that not true bull shit, i know this shits true...

[birdgirl73]

Well, he definitely played some of it up. And added some stories here and there to make it more dramatic. He's admitted that now in lots of places.

But it's still a really good read! And it's still mostly true.

[Mingles]

Everything I've seen and heard about it says the book is mostly all exaggerations. A typical one in the book is where he describes getting busted by the cops for all sorts of violations, beaten and roughhandled by the cops, but in reality it was a minor traffic ticket. Also that the friend from the mental hospital if fabricated as well.

The guy even placed himself in a car that killed a girl saying he was there and held her as she died, when in reality, a girl was killed, but he barely knew the girl and he wasn't even around the crash site. Not trying to ruin too many book plots, but when fiction is passed off as non-fiction or truth, the facts need to be set straight.

I'll shut up now.

[HazardousToking]

Go watch the south park episode "A Million Little Fibers" lmao


fuck that cow oprah!


BTW, "mostly true" is a pathetic term....

[birdgirl73]

Everything I've seen and heard about it says the book is mostly all exaggerations. A typical one in the book is where he describes getting busted by the cops for all sorts of violations, beaten and roughhandled by the cops, but in reality it was a minor traffic ticket. Also that the friend from the mental hospital if fabricated as well.

The guy even placed himself in a car that killed a girl saying he was there and held her as she died, when in reality, a girl was killed, but he barely knew the girl and he wasn't even around the crash site. Not trying to ruin too many book plots, but when fiction is passed off as non-fiction or truth, the facts need to be set straight.

I'll shut up now.

Oh, sheesh. Seriously, I didn't know it was this much of it made up! I thought it was only about three little details that were fabricated. I saw him and I think it was his publisher on the news one morning trying to make it sound less bad that it was.

Hence my use of the pathetic term "mostly true."

[HazardousToking]

either something is true


or


its not true


I guess I dont have any middle ground when it comes to truth/lies

[birdgirl73]

I guess I was just looking at it as if some stories in the book were true and some were not. But it's certainly true that it should de-classify the book itself from the non-fiction/biography category.

[Victor Lazlo]

My sister read it and the sequel â??My Friend Leonardâ?�. It got all its hype from being on the Oprah Book List and it turns out most of everything he wrote was fiction.

He even tried to get â??A Million Little Piecesâ?� published under fiction before he successfully got it published as a â??Memoirâ?�.

Apparently Oprah backed his story at first but later found out he lied about aspect of the story and she chewed his ass out on her show.
Still my sister said itâ??s a good read even if its all BS.