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Sep 07, 2016lukasevansherman rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
While I remember the poop-show that went down after it turned out that James Frey's best-selling addiction and recovery memoir was partially fabricated, I had little to no interest in actually reading it. It seemed less a big deal that he'd embellished here and there than that he'd pissed off Oprah, the most powerful woman in television. Rarely did I actually hear anyone discuss the merits of the book, although there's a hilariously inaccurate quote from New York Press "Can Frey be the greatest writer of his generation? Maybe?" He wasn't even the greatest writer of that week in 2006 when everyone knew who he was. I kinda hate memoirs about addiction, so this book was not for me. Aside from that, it's terribly written and, at over 400 pages, way too long. His lack of of quotation marks and indented paragraphs is a stylistic tic that just draws attention to how little there is here. Frey continued to write, but has also founded a company focused on young adult fiction that has been trying to churn out the next "Twilight." Anyway, this book is so terrible that you probably should read it as a palette cleanser. This edition has a tiny disclaimer that reads "This book is a combination of facts about James Frey's life and certain embellishments."