Book Review: A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

From Doubleday & Anchor Books:

The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesn't matter whether a book sold as nonfiction is true. A nonfiction book should adhere to the facts as the author knows them.
It is, however, Doubleday and Anchor's policy to stand with our authors when accusations are initially leveled against their work, and we continue to believe this is right and proper. A publisher's relationship with an author is based to an extent on trust. Mr. Frey's repeated representations of the book's accuracy, throughout publication and promotion, assured us that everything in it was true to his recollections. When the Smoking Gun report appeared, our first response, given that we were still learning the facts of the matter, was to support our author. Since then, we have questioned him about the allegations and have sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.

We bear a responsibility for what we publish, and apologize to the reading public for any unintentional confusion surrounding the publication of A Million Little Pieces

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[ocdofbooks]

Thanks for doing this review. Excellent review!

[TheBookBlog]

@ocdofbooks Thanks!

[sakuradelia]

Just to let you know, this book (or, at least, a large portion of this book) are fiction. After the book came out, if was revealed that much of what is in the book as "truth", simply isn't (like the girlfriend, Lily). It was a big controversy a few years ago. I've heard it is a very good book, though. But really, it is fiction. Wikipedia has a lot about it, or you can go to The Smoking Gun for the original story (they broke it back in '06).

[TheBookBlog]

@sakuradelia You are right. I remember that. Thanks for adding your comment. :)

[Brennan374]

frey is actually pernouned fry, but good review:)

[MrMikeMe]

just read it on my kindle. even though know that there was a scandal about this book, and it was mostly lies .. it still is an amazing read!!! very captivating and hard to put down!!

[lakeshiawilliams]

i found this book @ A goodwill i got it for 75cent...as far as ive read now..i think the book is worth way more then 75cent!!!!

[donavon]

everyone and their cat has read that book

[piccamumford]

The thing is he lied about everything, none of it happened to him. He lied, it's not a memior. :/

[thtman2004]

thank you ... your voice is amazing

[reesee02]

i want your eyes

[bookconsumption]

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[BookLending]

@sakuradelia Authors these days are very reluctant to have their book labelled a memoir these days thanks to the whole Oprah James Frey debacle. I like books that use the authors' real life experience as a springboard to create potraits of life without being factual documentation of life.