"A Million Little Pieces" - James Frey

[birdgirl73]

I definitely thought it was a good read!

[Mingles]

I think everyone who's read it agrees that it was a great book, but most also agree that it should have been fiction from the get go and are upset most about that. Although it was funny when Oprah basically ambushed him on the show. I guess from what I read, he had no idea she was going to go off on him.

Good stuff.

[thouragood jankins]

hells yea.....

[Victor Lazlo]

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.

I actually saw the Ophra segment where she grilled Frey about most of the major parts of the book. He very nervously admitted almost all of it was made up.

One example, and I have not read the book but I know it starts out where he just wakes up on a plane or something. Well none of that ever happened, he made it all up. So itâ??s defiantly not "mostly true" but still a good read I guess.

[sophiastarchild]

James Frey is a drama queen. Yes, some of it was rather riveting. But I kind of knew from the beginning something was up...because no way would they let a drugged up guy who was all injured and bleeding travel on a plane. I mean, have you ever seen Airline? On that show, you have two beers and the morality police inform you that you cannot take your flight...

[sophiastarchild]

Oh...and Frey's refusal to use quotation marks drives me totally nuts. I am a writer, and I wanted to take a red pen and edit the book so badly...I found it highly irritating.

[birdgirl73]

The quotation mark thing drove me nuts, too. I find myself wanting to fix that in other books, too. It's stylish.

What sorta stuff do you write, Sophia? Nice to talk with another writer on board here.

Have you ever read any of Augusten Burroughs' books? He's wickedly funny. And also writes about addiction adventures.