"A Million Little Pieces"

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:40 am

The book by James Frey, is a very good read, I haven't been able to put it down, the only book I went and bought with Christmas money.... very intense, very real, if you dig non-fiction it is pretty good shiz, written very stream-of-conscious but told very well....

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:55 am

I just finished it & it starts off great & definatly a quick read, but i ended up a little dissapointed at the end.. Wont say why till your done, dont want to spoil anything. Anyway post what you thought about the ending!! Want to see if im just being over critical.. :wink:

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:07 pm

will do. should be finished by tomorrow.

Tae-Bo · Post by **Tae-Bo** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:51 am

just bought it on a whim after skimming a few pages at the bookstore, i like his writing style

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:11 am

I was in B&N yesterday and was debating on getting this for the plane trip. I picked it up a couple times, but ended up getting a huge crossword puzzle book instead. Now that I have heard some good reviews, I'll pick this up this weekend.

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:50 am

Just finished it.... it is a truly excellent book, particularly if you are an addict, are staying sober or are interested in getting in the mind of an addict.... I thought the end was good, the final page discussing the main characters was shocking though....

overall I would certainly recommend it to anyone, though if you offer it to someone who is older warn them that it gets very obscene at times

excellent read for the very slow after-christmas work week

Post by **Mop** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:13 pm

will buy tommorow

araby · Post by **araby** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:51 pm

I read this last Christmas, it's an excellent book and I love the way he writes, although the brief sentences make it a little tedious...but then again I have just started Chuck Klosterman's "Killing Yourself to Live" and his sentences are so long they make me want to throw the book. But it's still great.

Anyway...another recommendation for those of you enjoying James Frey...pick up Augusten Burrough's "Running With Scissors" then "Dry" and then he also has a collection of stories called "Magical Thinking" and finally a fiction novel "Sellevision."

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:27 am

Running with Scissors was very good. I'll have to pick up Dry.

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:34 am

thanks for the suggestions....

Tae-Bo · Post by **Tae-Bo** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:27 am

so it turns out this guy is full of shit: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/01 ... frey1.html

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:03 am

hmmmmm.... that is interesting, a little long for me to read at the moment though....

One thing that is not as unusual as TSG is making it out to be is that fact that people in the story died or are in prison, etc.

having worked with and befriended serious addicts for the past 7 years, it is totally normal for people to kill themselves by drug or other ways

and being a mental health professional, it is totally normal to have to use totally false identities when referring to people in print so that they can't be traced... that is the whole point, to tell the story without the people being found

BUT I am interested and I will look into it, For me, the story, rather than the validity of the story was what was so powerful to me, it could have been a fiction piece and been just as powerful.... I have no desire to idolize some individual, though, if he lied that is really crappy

Sorina S · Post by **Sorina S** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:26 pm

I've been waiting 6 weeks on my library list for this damn book. ,!,, all you that read it, I heard it's really good.

Post by **Tossica** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:48 pm

I knew that guy was full of shit.

Post by **Mop** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:06 pm

a book is a book whats it matter if he is full of shit if it is honestly a good read?~

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:33 am

If it's so good then why was it rejected for publication when it was presented as fiction?

It sold because it was supposedly real.

Post by **Lyion** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:49 am

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news ... frey_x.htm

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:01 am

wow. seems like the wheels are falling off.

I don't honestly know, having experienced some of what was discussed in the book it was very charged because of my own reliving of the story.... his story telling was powerful....

It would do some serious damage to his own professional life if he is proved to have "fleshed out" :wink:

certain stories....

He even had a movie deal.... sucks for him.... This is the kind of stuff that is a nightmare because the allegations alone will make people distrust you.... true or not....

I guess we'll see

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:37 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10777837/?GT1=7538

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:45 pm

Well the guys is laughing his way to the bank, I'd bet if oprah hadn't put it on her list the book would never have gotten the time in the limelite as it has.

I don't have facts but hasn't every book that oprah put on her list become a number 1 seller?

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:49 pm

probably.... in my vanity i bought the book and proceeded to take the Oprah Book Club sticker off as i left the store

Tae-Bo · Post by **Tae-Bo** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:12 pm

haha me too

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:01 pm

Doesn't make you any less gay.

Tae-Bo · Post by **Tae-Bo** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:03 pm

hehe someone's mad

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:08 am