A Million Little Pieces
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A Million Little Pieces
by Authors:
James Frey
Released: 22 September, 2005
ISBN: 0307276902
Paperback
Sales Rank: 97
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Customer Review #1:
 unbelievable
I purchased this book based on Oprahs recommendation and because I am intimately familiar with addiction, having come from a family of addicts. I didnt get to the mid-section of this book before I put it down. It was unmitigated garbage. I just knew that the stories were not true or at the very least embellished. When the true story came out I was not the least bit surprised. I gave the book to Goodwill and Good Ridance as far as I am concerned. The author does not deserve to profit from this, but of course he has.
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Customer Review #2:
 A Million Little Perspectives
I finally read A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. I did not and still do not understand what all of the controversy is about. When there is an accident and you ask 10 people to witness it, you will get 10 different perspectives. The author was giving his perspective when he was overcoming horrendous physical and emotional addictions. He also had to keep individuals anonymous and tweek the details to sufficiently cover many identities from the same time and place. I found his writing compelling and indicative of a mind that may not be able to process a complete thought or sentence. I particularly appreciated the strong comparison from when he was first in treatment and when he was finishing treatment with respect to his thoughts and actions to others. His reconciliation with his parents, his ability to make friends and be concerned about them as his recovery progressed showed his ability to relate again, very slowly to the world around him. Would that be an imperfect perspective? Im guessing it might be an imperfect perspective given the healing and change that his mind and body were going through. How can anyone else dictate how the authors perspective should have been at the time or how his perspective should have been later as he was remembering his own life? I know someone who has taken a year off to write her memoirs and since this incident, has decided not to finish writing it. I am very concerned about the ability of readers to have editorial power and almost sensorship control over a book meant to help others or maybe even just facilitate a self healing of the author. Why should anyone be able to dictate the perspective of a life? What was their motive in finding "errors"? Are our American History books perfectly adjusted to facts? Sadly no, and these are factual books taught to our children, not a story that is meant to bring hope and/or healing. I feel so strongly about this debate that this is the first time I have ever written a review. Of course there may be someone who will find that I wrote a book review in High School once and that will discredit my entire writing.
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Customer Review #3:
A Wonderful Story -- Fictional or Not
I dont care what Oprah says, whether she wants him in her club or not, and I certainly dont care if James Frey embellished or lied or made the whole thing up. I read this book two years ago and back then I thought it was amazing and I still do today. It drags you in and you can feel the characters addiction. The writing is great, the way its all one big rambling paragraph, with no indication of who is actually speaking. I adored this book and will continue to feel this way for the rest of my life. I will buy every book Frey publishes because a good story by a good author = a good book.
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