FREY IS A FAKE


SmokingGun.com just exposed Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces" as a completely fake "true story". Oprah's face must be red, as she propelled this fraud to the best-sellers list. Now they're making a movie of it!!

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He's not only a fake he's an awful writer - I tried to read this book and found it laughably overwrought and ridiculously faux macho - thank you smoking gun, now my senses feel validated - of course he never screamed at the cops, "if you want me then come in here and get me, pigs!" - that's the stuff privileged hollywood writers come up with while sipping starbuck's lattes paid for with their trust funds. and of course he was never wanted in 3 states, and of course he never did hard time. he was a pampered suburban soccer playing frat boy who capitalized off the one thing he never had in life - challenges.
i hope to god they pull the plug on this movie and his future book deals.

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Kudos to TSG for doing the legwork, but honestly, I knew after reading AMLP that he'd made most of it up. In fact, it really reads like a mediocre screenwriter embellishing his time in rehab to make it sound way more interesting than it probably was.

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didn't chuck barris write a memoir where he made a bunch of stuff up?

basically: who cares? it's entertainment either way. what does one gain or lose whether it's true or false? if people only enjoyed it because they thought it was a TRUE f'ed up story, then the joke is on them, because that's sort of a distorted reason for liking something.

and Kissing A Fool is my favorite film of all time.

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so what if parts of his memoirs are lies, it helped people including me overcome addiction. he is a truly brilliant writer whether factual or fictional, who cares. you dont watch films or tv and say that isnt real so it means nothing. at no point did frey ever say all of his book was true in fact in my copy of his book it said at the front that some parts may be fictionalised. the books he writes have morals, and morals are morals whether they are based on a true story or not. stop slating the book just because it's not true, if it was written as a fictional novel i bet it would of done just as well.

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A million little pieces, despite any of the lovely words written in here, is the best book I've read this year. Despite all the fabrication,too.


Love.

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I agree with the last three comments absolutely. I actually cried at the end of My Friend Leonard, and I never do that. I think Oprah was just pissed because maybe she felt like she was being made the fool of. (I do love Oprah I must say, and the James Frey books I've read.) Kissing a Fool was a good movie as well, one that I really enjoyed...

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