I loved the book "A Million Little Pieces". I thought the book was very good and the story really touched me. When James Frey admitted that the book wasn't completely non-fiction, I was really upset. If I had known that the book was fiction before I read the book, I would have been ok with it. But to release a book and say that this is what happened in your life, and for the story to be so horrible and heart-wrenching, that is just wrong. Frey's second book, "My Friend Leonard", was also a great book. I really liked the story and took the story (again) as the truth. Frey has since released a statement saying that this book, too, is fictional. This makes me really angry and turns me off from Frey as an author. "My Friend Leonard" was very good, but mainly because it was about what really happened to Frey. How much of it was false? No one knows. My question is, was the suicide of his girlfriend in "My Friend Leonard" true or false? Because if that wasn't true, I will lose all respect for this man. That was a horrible thing to happen after all that both of them had been through. Does anyone know if it really happened?
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So the guy lied about several facts. That didn't change the fact that you enjoyed his book, did it?
No but I would have enjoyed it more if I would have known that it was all a lie in the beginning.
I think her suicide was true, but she died another way. Come on, how many of the "true stories" do you think are 100% true? NONE! Some must have some lies here and there, people can't have such krisp memory...
I agree. He should have just came out and said it was phony to begin with. Im sure it helped or inspired a few people that were in his predicament to get themselves out of it, but it was a lie. Oprah had him on her show and she was pissed! he seemed to show no remorse though, thats the sad part, and he went and wrote another "true" story, that wasn't really true.