So I've been reading this book called "A Million Little Pieces". It's a heart wrenching, gut turning, mind twisting, soul churnning story about a 23 year old kid fighting his way out of drug/alcohol abuse, self hatred and basic human disfunction. The best part is it's a true story, James Frey's memoir.(or so I thought )

I've been fighting my way through this book the past few weeks. I can relate all to well to James's struggles, at times I become so emotional I have to put the book down and walk away. At times it was just all too much. This book was meaning something to me.... UNTIL I found out the author's a fraud and he made the whole thing up.

Check this shit out: http://www.thesmokinggun....frey1.html

I feel so betrayed.

I was totally amazed by this book and by his second, "My friend leonard" ! I felt the same feelings than you. Shit, shit, shit...

Hum, can we also trust the invistagations made by those people from thesmokinggun

jizzinparis said:

Oh AND...

On the news last night they said that Frey tryed to sell it to 17 publishers as a work of FICTION and was rejected by all 17 publishers before he submitted it as a memoir and got it published.

Yeah I trust the smoking gun.

That's like Memoirs from what what i've been told. I've had a few friends really peeved after reading that book.

lilmissmissy said:

So this happened more than once...

people suck.

Pfff, so pitiful. I mean, i was not into drugs and alcohol as much as he was - or he wasn't now, the big asshole - but back in the days, i was addicted to cocaine and this book talked to me so deeply.

Damn

Sweeny79 said:

Oh yah it'z like an emotional fraud from what i've observed!! The author gets you right in, especially by tellin you the story is based on something that actually happened. They get you right in and then BOOM at the end. IT's terrible from the reader's perspective at the end but the author is laughing $$$ !!

jizzinparis said:

I'm not, nor ever have been addicted to any drug, but I know those who have...
so disapointing.

if one day i see this dumbass, i'm gonna make "A million little pieces" of his face

jizzinparis said:

I'll hold him down, you kick him.

Sweeny79 said:

Sweeny, my partner in Frey's destruction. Yeah

jizzinparis said:

I feel a tiny bit better now.

it's on cnn now

he's on larry king
im not following the story just thought i'd let yall know.
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SammiJ said:

Thanks Sammi

But i'm gonna break my tv if i see sa sale gueule de con

jizzinparis said:

OWNEEEEED!!!!!



LOLOLOL

I don't think they're saying the whole thing (book) is fabricated, just that he perhaps exaggerated how much legal trouble he was in?

A similar controversy has arisen about JT Leroy, the author of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things.

AnotherLoverToo said:

And the he claims one of his best friendsa s a kid died in a train wreck that he was part responsible for, and that caused a lot of his self hatred which lead to his drug abuse , but the kid's parents say he had nothing to do with the train wreck, and hardly knew the dead girl at all.

I've never read the book, but when you view the book as a piece of art that you like, you shouldn't feel betrayed.

MarieLouise said:

It's still a good book, but he said it was his real life. The fact he lied to make money pisses me off.

well, at least he wrote a moving piece of fiction that got to see the light of day. with all the crap that gets published nowadays, there should be a celebration whenever a an actual work of art breaks through.

i understand the feeling of betrayal but the fact that this man can even write such a moving and compelling book speaks to his talent.

of course, the fact that he had to lie to get his book published says a great deal about publishing world. that's a damn shame.

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

DAMN GIRL YOU BEAT ME TO IT!!!!!

DynamicSavior said:

LMAO!!!!!