a million little pieces

the man who conned oprah is the not so subtle expose by the smoking gun of james frey and his bestselling memoirs a million little pieces. very suprising and interesting read.

i feel like printing out this article and slipping it in all of the copies we have waiting to be picked up at my work.

I love that someone is finally calling this guy on his shit. He really strikes me as a suburban white kid who appropriated gangsta' shite and regurgitated it back to middle class white folk in a form that they could understand and spend their $ on. Would Oprah have liked this book so much if say, Fiddy-cent wrote it? She'd be all over his coke-whore exploiting ass.

Glamorizing misery to make a personal profit; it's the American way.

talk about a spoiler...i knew nothing of this book i just got it a few days ago from my friend. i only have about 35 or so more pages to go...i feel so cheated i don't think i can finish it now.

3.5 million sold and I'd never heard of him or his book until just now.

...marry me?

Nobody (to my knowledge) is saying that non-fiction is "worthier," just that it shouldn't be fiction.

I think people are just saying he shouldn't have told the world it's true, if it isn't; the lack-of-worth allegations are aimed more at the author's claims for his book than at the book itself.

(And I went and started another thread on this, but it includes JT LeRoy, another story ... )

it obviously wasn't true.. but i guess if you're a bored suburban housewife you wouldn't notice...