A Million Little Pieces | James Frey

A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | A NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY

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	A Million Little Pieces James Frey Anchor, 2005 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 1822 reviews view larger image
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?The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs? Junky.? ?The Boston Globe

?Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey?s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.??San Francisco Chronicle

?A brutal, beautifully written memoir.??The Denver Post

?Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can?t help but cheer his victory.? ?Los Angeles Times Book Review

saved my life

I wrote a review years ago after I read this book.
Still today, regardless of all the notoriety, I give thanks to James for writing this book. Unless someone has walked in the shoes of very early sobriety and recovery from drug addiction as well as alcohol abuse there can be no understanding of how powerful this book is.
Bottom line: it saved my life and my MIND. Without this book God only knows if I would be here today 3 years later, clean and sober, to write about it.

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A NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Regardless of how I feel about the whole controversy surrounding this book, it turned out to be a good story and I'll rate it for what it is...A work of fiction, based on a true story.
As a story is wasn't bad - not bad at all, especially after the first couple hundred pages.

For me, the beginning was so redundant that I came close to giving up on it. The first 200 pages could have easily been summed up like this...My name is James Frey and I'm a total mess. I'm 23 years old. I've been an alcoholic for the last ten years. I'm a drug Addict, and a Criminal. I'm currently in a treatment facility. I hate myself and deserve whatever physical and or mental pain and agony that comes my way. In fact, I'm such a crazy alcoholic, such a tough drug addict, such a hardened criminal, I'll take any pain you got - bring it on!

The rest of the novel is a compelling story about the author's time spent in a treatment facility for drug and alcohol addiction. It is a story worth the cost of the book and the time spent reading it.

As far as the hullabaloo - I knew all along that many of the facts presented in this memoir were not true; the author himself has admitted to lying. Therefore, I didn't experience that surprising feeling of betrayal when you believe something to be true, only to find out otherwise. However, when schools, universities, colleges, newspapers, etc. are so intense about not tolerating plagiarism, why do publishers, editors and most of all readers accept any lack of honesty and integrity when it come to labeling literature? Why sort literature by genre at all if we aren't going to have some standards set that we can trust? Yes, I guess it (labeling this book a memoir) really does bug me.

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An Interesting Read

Although later found out to be a fictional piece, this book was still worth the read. This book kept me reading.

Captivating book!

This book I read before I saw him on Oprah about the validity of his book. His writing style is amazing and will draw you into this 'story' of his life. It was very believable down to the smallest of details, while keeping your attention. It was hard to put down!

He definitely has a talent for writing captivating 'stories'.

Merna

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