The Works of James Frey

[GirlyGhoul]

Slightly off the subject at hand, but today as I was walking to my office I saw the FATTEST robin hopping around the grass and had to catch myself before I said "Hey Fat Robin! You want what I got?"

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Also from the Stephen King piece in EW:

Embarrass the Book Queen and the Book Queen will get you back double, in front of millions...and your editor, too.

That was my take on the whole final interview with Oprah, the very fact that he lied to her was somehow more of an affront than the fact that so much of the book is founded on lies.

[dancedancexenu]

So I'm a douche in a kind of backward way. I always thought the book was fiction. I bought it because I had a flight from Japan to Sidney to San Francisco to Vancouver to Calgary (well, several different, flights, but... uh.. it was cheap) and so I was running full tilt through the gift shops trying to find English language books that weren't bodice rippers. And I bought A Million Little Pieces. And I couldn't stop laughing when I read it because I was just like "what prepubescent "prodigy" wrote this piece of shit? University is so useful." I actually broke into horrifically loud laughter at the "Fat otter" part. And I finished it anyway because I couldn't believe what a shitty novel it was.

Then I told all my friends about it and offered to let them borrow it and they were like "uh... that's a memoir. You're a bitch."

But I feel good, because I refused to believe it (just like how I laughed my ass off at Go Ask Alice in junior high) and now I am right. Gloriously, gloriously right.

And I just wanted to post this in a forum that would appreciate my crazy hatred. Because my roommate is just like "well it's still a good story!"

[chonies]

Hee! My boyfriend works in a bookstore and just called to report that A Million Little Pieces is now officially shelved in fiction. I think My Friend Leonard is still in biography, though.

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OK, I don't WHY I read it but a friend had A Million Little Pieces in her book shelf and I thought "Hmmm, maybe I'll give that a try".

I just finished it this morning. Maybe hindsight is 20/20 but I can't believe that anyone thought this book was real. Seriously. It's all so cliche. The mobster friend, the judge, the boxer . . . the pale, beautiful and sensitive drug addicted hooker. I mean SERIOUSLY.

But my biggest issue with the book is how it acts like James Frey is the first person in the history of addicted people to sneer at the 12-steps. Google alcoholism and you'll discover a large number of recovery programs that off an alternative to AA and the 12-steps. Many of these groups don't mention God.

I was reading the book and thinking "Why is this place acting like James Frey is the first person to ever go a different route in his recovery" I mean the idea that he would think people would believe that a rehab facility would not be aware of the alternatives to 12-steps or present them as options is just bizarre to me.

Plus, it's just horrendously written. How was this an Oprah selection? It's like a bad Lifetime movie!

[dancedancexenu]

jensational said:

How was this an Oprah selection? It's like a bad Lifetime movie!

And that, young grasshopper, is the answer to your question.

[defaultusername]

I’m just thankful something good came outta this whole debacle.

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[dancedancexenu]

A coworker and I were walking through Prince's Island Park at lunch today, and there was this obese seagull that kept attacking the other seagulls that landed in its territory. All I could think was "hey fat seagull, you want what I got?"

Bless you James Frey, for being a spoiled brat and letting us all share in our shadenfreudalicious mockery of your spectacular ass-kicking.

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Nice catch by Gawker. Frey, could you be more of a loser?

[emersende]

What, is it a picture of him picking his underwear out of his ass crack?

Oh, that's what it is. What a bad writer (and idiot)!