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 I need a long shower. I feel dirty after reading this book February 26, 2010
Mr. Fan
I read this knowing full well it was fiction, after the furor. The plot is sophmoric. Everything tied up so neatly. Tiresome language. And the treatment of the female lead is a deplorable exploitation. It's hard to exploit someone who is not real but that might be Frey's singular talent. Dreck
 Exploitation of addiction... January 30, 2010
Thomas Moody (STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS United States)
This was a strange little book...on the one hand we have James Frey embellishing most if not all of his recovery from addiction, misleading all readers and self aggrandizing his disease. On the other, this was, admittedly, a true page turner, one which took me only a short time to finish (I took this on with all the knowledge of Frey's delusion). This dichotomy is what faces me as I try to objectively review this "best seller".
Maybe this perversion is what Frey originally had in mind and if it was (assuming the reader can get past the untruths) then this still is a work worth reading. No literary marvel here (again perhaps Frey's intent) the reader is bombarded with straight-ahead no b.s. prose that constantly attacks the senses and draws you in. The character development is certainly un-Dickensian but stays true to the vein in which Frey portrays this story...hard, to the point and all with a million flaws. I'll wager that most who start this book will fly through it with gusto just to see how this haywire cast ends up and to see if Frey's impertinent approach to recovery works.
So, I have to say go on and take the plunge. Knowing Frey's betrayal, one should still read this for what it is...a dark symptomatic account of addiction and recovery that hits you over the head and leaves you (left me at least) with a better feeling for what the dispossessed go through.
Good Story/ Bad Author January 23, 2010
Edward Reynolds (Royal Oak, Michigan)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book because of all of it's publicity, but just because it's popular, doesn't make it a good read. The story started off strong: He's on an airplane, he's got holes in his face, he's missing teeth, it sounds interesting, right? But as the story goes on, you notice the author's poor style of writing.
James Frey doesn't know how or refuses to use quotation marks. This makes the story difficult to read and you'll find yourself going back and forth between pages to find out who is saying what.
Besides not using quotation marks, Mr. Frey loves to repeat him self over and over. I mean, it's the same thing OVER and OVER. You think that he would get bored with saying the same thing OVER and OVER again, but no. Sometimes he'll change it up a bit with his repetitive thoughts by saying them AGAIN and AGAIN. But hopefully, he'll just go back to reading the same paragraph OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER, AGAIN and AGAIN. This would be okay if we was trying to make a new point or something, but he's already said the same thing OVER and OVER. It's as if you could take out paragraphs and whole pages of this book because they say the exact same thing OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER!!!!!!!
The story behind "A MILLION LITTLE PIECES" is a good one. It's interesting. I just really, really, REALLY, wish a different author would have written this.
Deez Nuts, James Frey, Deez Nuts.
 Entertaining Read January 10, 2010
Melissa K. Guggisberg (Charleston, SC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book tremendously. It doesn't bother me one bit that this turned out to be a fiction book. He was swept up in the marketing of it all. It doesn't matter to me. If you want a great read, this is one. A friend of mine started to read it and had to stop because he was having flashback dreams to his own "drug" days. It's got great characters and a great imagination. Mostly it's incredibly well written. I love James Frey!
Read this before and after the Oprah incident. December 28, 2009
Ryan Hartman (Minden, Germany)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book in 2005 before the allegations towards the author surfaced. I found the book to be exemplary, a facinating read that gave me new insight into a world which i knew little about. i decided to re-read the book in December 09 and although I knew some parts were embellished, It is still an exceptional read and I highly recommend it. Buy it, it is worth every penny.
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