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A Million Little Pieces
 

A Million Little Pieces

by James Frey

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The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesn?t matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the... (read more)

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Liked It

3 of 3 members found this review helpful.
AM
  • Rated 5 stars

“When I first got this book, I opened it on a random page and started reading. The writing style was so annoying that I put the book down and let it sit on my shelf for six months. It kept nagging me though, so I decided to give it another try and began to read from page one.

How brilliant! No wonder the writing style annoyed me in a random page read. It was so perfectly suited to the narrator's frame of mind and circumstances, which I didn't get until I started reading from the...”

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Didn’t Like It

1 of 1 members found this review helpful.
Frabjous Day
  • Rated 1 stars

“If one is a drug addict, surely it is vulgar to write about it in such self-obsessed and narcissistic terms as this?”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.716453 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 3.5 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Linda P

    linda p said:

    “I read the book even after Oprah ripped him for exaggerating the truth. I couldn't put the book down. Truth or not, any type of addiction I felt this book could hit home about. Whether drugs, alcohol, food, smoking. There were so many parts of the book that I could relate too. It just really made me rethink many things in my life. I have to say, I truly enjoyed this book. ”

    posted 3 weeks ago ( | view 1 reply )
  • Micara

    micara said:

    “I couldn't finish this book. I tried because of all the hype about it, but it just didnt grab my full attention. ”

    posted Thursday, August 21 2008
  • vicki

    vicki said:

    “Writing is too staccato. This is what happens when non-writers attempt to write. [Read: opinion]”

    posted Tuesday, June 10 2008
  • Scottlady

    scottlady said:

    “I agree with you and didn't care that he stretched the truth. I wonder if anything would have gone different if he classified it a novel. It was interesting a good read and one person point of view.”

    posted Thursday, May 29 2008
  • aurban

    aurban said:

    “I didn't care the he "stretched" the truth. The book was written with passion. I gout sucked in and didn't want to leave the world within the pages, and that's, to me, is the goal for any book, fiction or non-fiction.”

    posted Thursday, May 29 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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