Author a victim again

James Frey, the discredited author of “A Million Little Pieces,” the fictional “memoir” of his crack- and alcohol-addicted days, claims he is a victim of the times. “Pieces” was the book that first made Oprah Winfrey cry before she called him out on her show when the fabrications surfaced. In an interview with the London Guardian, Frey claims that his “manipulated text” became such a hot issue because of the times. “People feel frustrated by a lot of distortions by politicians . . . and it was like a sorta confluence of events that I happened to be in the middle of.”
He compares his book to Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” which is a fictional work with autobiographical elements. Frey fails to recognize the difference between Hemingway’s fictional work with nonfiction elements and his self-proclaimed nonfiction work of mostly fiction.
Posted by Angie Holladay

5 Comments

  1. Steven Davis
    Posted September 20, 2006 at 12:10 am | Permalink

    Angie,

    This dufus wrote a good book proclaiming it was truth, when it was only fiction. Makes you wonder what Bush/Kline would have to do to receive the same accolades?

    You’re right, they have already.

  2. CR
    Posted September 20, 2006 at 1:31 am | Permalink

    I dont’ see what the big deal is here. I question everything that I read.

    The real problem here is that Oprah claimed his book to be a best seller. And I fully believe that if Oprah told everyone to put a pile of dog poop in their front window and hang ribbons from it – these sheep would.

    What has happened to people’s intelligence? If you read this guy’s book and you like it fine. If you don’t like it, that’s fine too.

  3. J M Walker
    Posted September 20, 2006 at 5:43 am | Permalink

    So creating a lie from scratch, then getting caught and outed for it is the times fault. Good one. If I ever need an excuse, I’ll use that one . . . NOT. The guy is a piece of s**t who is now trying to blame his whole lie on anything but himself. Obviously, he has no understanding of the word responsibility.

  4. Joe Williams
    Posted September 20, 2006 at 7:10 am | Permalink

    Is he trying to blame this on Bush?

    LOL!

    Honestly! I could care less about this Frey guy. Let him do what he wants to do.

  5. Ben Huie
    Posted September 20, 2006 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    WAH! WAH! WAH!

    So the idiot got caught lying about his book; too bad for him. If he had written it and published it as “dramatization” he would have been OK. But to lie and claim it was real; he deserves what he gets.