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A Million Little Pieces (Oprah's Book Club)
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From a regular old friend:
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey. I am a supporter of this author and a huge fan of A Million Little Pieces . I have not heard much here on LT, on his latest.
A Million Little Pieces ?
... hardback. YAY!
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
On Secret Service by John Jakes
Predator by Patricia Cornwell
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates
Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
Last Man Standing by David Baldacci
The Simple Truth by Dav ...
... by J.R.R. Tolkien
LOTR: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
God is Dead by Ron Currie Jr.
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote ...
I'm pretty sure Eggers was actually working on What is the What long before the Million Little Pieces scandal. Eggers took on the project with Deng expecting it to be something like a six month project if I remember correctly, but it ended up taking up about five years. Deng was adamant ...
I also had the same reaction with What is the What, I'm guessing the fiction part is due to the whole million little pieces fiasco. It read very true, unfortunately, and you are right, it is going on again/still in Darfur and many other places. It makes us look at our lives and the lives of ...
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - read it 4 years ago before the Oprah drama - still loved it!
I havn't read A Million Little Pieces or Love in the Time of Cholera but I have read The Bad Beginning
I haven't read Love and Friendship
but I have read A million little pieces
... of having my emotions manipulated by events that have been exaggerated, or even created for that purpose, since Frey's A Million Little Pieces .
... There Meags!
I saw that you have read Bright Shiny Morning & was wondering what you thought of it? I really enjoyed A Million Little Pieces but really didnt like the sequel My Friend Leonard.
Thanks
This is going to sound funny because these books are not about food, but my favorite part of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard were James Frey's descriptions of the meals he ate. I was hungry the entire time.
Also I just finished A Year in Provence which is pretty meal based. ...
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What makes me decide whether or not I like a book, Stephanie, is the emotional reaction I have to it. I found A Million Little Pieces mesmerizing. Frey did with words what I could only hope to do with writing.
There are some books that I do hate (very few actually). Those are ...
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I guess it's different strokes for different folks. I started by listening to A Million Little Pieces on audio and only turned to the book because I found out that the audio was abridged. I wanted the whole kit and kaboodle. I was mesmerized by the story. I thought he really pulled ...
... It's Me Margaret by Judy Bloom
24. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
25. Gravesavers by Sheree Fitch
26. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
After all the Oprah hype I never bothered reading this book. There was just too much publicity regarding the book for me to be ...
... fiction such a bad thing to admit?
I don't think so. I'm not sure (I've never read it), but did later editions of Million Little Pieces come with a caveat stating that certain elements had been changed or exaggerated? When we see movies "based on a true story", we know that the story ...
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Even cowgirls get the blues Tom Robbins
Sense and sensibility Jane Austen
Forty words for Sorrow Giles Blunt
A million little pieces James Frey
... that the love story in this book, the central crux of the book, never happened.
More famously is the Oprah book choice A Million Little Pieces , turned out to be a work of fiction.
I'd like to discuss this, if anyone is game.
Why would anyone do this? Is there an advantage of ...
To date the most disappointing book I've read especially (given the hype) was A Million Little Pieces . I understand that James Frey isn't known for being a gifted author, and rather is known for his inspiring story, but the book is presented and reviewed as a novel more than a memoir. Yet ...
I have read A Million Little Pieces and liked it. I pretty much think along the line of what you said after your *. Even if I had known he'd exaggerated or miss remembered (deliberate or not), I still think the book did a good job at what it was trying to do. I think the beginning of The Gargoyle ...
Have either of you (65, 66, 67) read A Million Little Pieces * by James Frey? The opening of The Gargoyle reminded me a bit of that book and the style of writing and also in the way the writing tries to sensationalize the feelings that one experiences, although in Gargoyle the issue is ...
... heart
Deborah Hefferman
Breathless Nora roberts
The bonesetter's daughter Amy Tan
Skeleton Man Tony Hillerman
A million little pieces James Frey
... people using that term around here, but I didn't know what it meant exactly. I thought they were talking about books like A Million Little Pieces .
That's right. Wasn't it A Million Little Pieces ? I didn't read it; I tend to avoid Oprah books just because I feel manipulated by her. I suspect it happens more than we know. Who's to say it's intentional? I think sometimes we count as a memory something that we've heard and decided to make ...
16 - Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Take James' Frey's A Million Little Pieces , but from the POV of a 12 year old daughter of a junkie. A daughter that rarely feels sorry for herself. Fantastic and unsettling at the same time.
... and unique book in a couple days in common place. A book that is popular and highly rated one day, is junk the next... Million little pieces .
This group is beginning to appear to be much more at the front of that flood than I had ever realized.
... Land, Robert Heinlein
31. The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman
32. Losses, Randel Jarrel (poetry)
33. a million little pieces , James Frey
34. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll (illus. Sir John Tenniel) (reread)
35. Just So Stories, ...
Two left in the mail today to go to BookMoochers:
1. There are Jews in My House
2. A Million Little Pieces
... seem to have forgot to mention that I was reading Half of a Yellow Sun. Really enjoyed it. Like, people read books like A Million Little Pieces , which is just some over-privileged idiot's (fake) drug memoir (boo hoo), and then you read something like Yellow Sun, which is actually about ...
The top two were already mentioned, but I think they were great:
I was one who was wowed by James Frey's A Million Little Pieces despite the controversy.
I, too, recommend The Glass Castle. I commend the author for her journalistic approach to her odd childhood and her ability to go on ...
... just listed the following:
snow flower and the secret fan by lisa see MOOCHED
roots by alex haley MOOCHED
a million little pieces by james frey
christmas letters from hell by michael lent
don't make me stop this car by al roker
what to expect the first year ...
Just a couple:
A Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
This one's controversial but it's one you'll never forget:
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
A Million Little Pieces James Frey
Split Images by Elmore Leonard
The Severed Man by George Mann
Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell
A Life In Pieces by Dave Stone, Paul Sutton & Joseph Lidster
I finished A Million Little Pieces yesterday, and started reading A Very Long Engagement this morning.
47) A Million Little Pieces by James Fray
This was by no means what I consider great litterature, but I enjoyed it nontheless. I found myself not able to really relate -thank god- since I've never experienced addiction (except, you know, for books and chocolate). It gave me more insight ...
... So I decided to abandoned it. If you finish it, I'd be interested in hearing what you think about it!
I'm reading A Million Little Pieces at the moment, and I'm finding it alright. Nothing special.
Finished Lisey's Story by Stephen King, and about to start A Million Little Pieces by James Fray next.
No:
As I lay dying by William Faulkner
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco
We Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we Will be Killed with our Families by Philip Gourevitch
How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward
... East of Eden (85) against the number for The Grapes of Wrath (76) maybe. Or try checking out the number of reviews of A Million Little Pieces (101) against say... My Friend Leonard (23)...
... Doug (on this one issue!) in that I just don't get all the anti-Oprah sentiment. I worked at a bookstore from A Million Little Pieces through Deceptively Delicious. Yeah, maybe the people who watch her show and don't bother to have an author's name are annoying, but hell, at ...
... writer of gay erotica. Thus, what may have come across as being poignant was obvious lies (and I'm talking much bigger than A Million Little Pieces here) told by a white guy trying to tap into "Native American mysticality." But I *liked* the book, I did, and when either a. thinking of it as ...
... read this month's article at Vanity Fair about A Million Little Pieces and how Frey is weathering the scandal.
Certainly enough print space has been wasted on this whole mess, but I found the reporter's take to be ...
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I really enjoyed this, especially since I know someone with autism, some of the behaviors hit close to home.
4. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
This was a fast read and I knew that it was (mostly) made up but I still liked it. I just read it as though it was fiction.
These ...
I stumbled upon a sale in my local bookshop, so..
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Wild Animals (the touchstone's got it all wrong; it's a book about mammals, reptiles and amphibians.)
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
Running... is reminding me of a book I read last year, A Million Little Pieces - they are both 'fictionalised' memoirs- but perhaps as RWS is about Burrough's childhood, his further book Dry would be better for a Compare & Contrast.
... who try to be accurate and revealing and considerate of their relatives and associates. Whew. Big job.
I too thought Million Little Pieces was hard to take well before the controversy hit the media. I knew enought about the "recovery industry" to recognize the hyperbole.
... yes, I think some of them are just lying. They aren't confused or disconnected. They just want to be published.
I read Million Little Pieces before he was discovered and remember not believing much of it. As someone who has worked with addicts (I'm a social worker), his story didn't seem ...
... when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
A book-crazed friend at work just brought me the following:
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey;
Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey; and
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.
This gal was on her way ...
... only got to 47 (no surprise there--and that was with no job or school!)
So, er, here I go! So far I've got these:
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Out of Africa/Shadows in the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural ...
... book - it really read more like a novel than a memoir although the whole time I was reading it I did have flashbacks of A Million Little Pieces - not that it was in any way like that book, the writing in this book is much better as is the story itself. I just kept thinking that I loved this ...
4) Just finished A Million little Pieces by James Frey Ok, I know he made it up, but I still enjoyed it. Oprah should try writting a book on substance abuse and see if it's believeable.
... Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Natural History of Make-Believe
The Year of Living Biblically
Zeno and the Tortoise
TBR:
Dawkins's The Selfish Gene ...
I was really drawn in by A Million Little Pieces ...
Also, Seven Japanese Tales was great. Tanizaki is a genius.
those are my two favorites for September.
4) Completed 09/23: A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
43% through A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. I'm enjoying it & finding it easy to get through (besides the drug addiction/ rehab topic).
Maybe if I keep enjoying it My Friend Leonard will end up on my TBR pile.
... are memoirs, Snoopy, and manga confusing? Nonfiction, fiction, fiction. There. I solved the big dilemma.
What about A Million Little Pieces ?
What about Deepak Chopra?
Why is The Corrections tagged nonfiction at least once?
...What about the Bible?
I would rather have an ...
I am at a Treatment Centre in Minnesota, reading A Million Little Pieces , by James Frey.
TwoDs> have you finished the entire Lemony Snicket series?
I finished reading Wild Swans, Jung Chang last night; and have started on A Million Little Pieces , James Frey.
... is narrated by a character who is mentally challenged. While there is what I consider “junk food” books on her list, a Million Little Pieces and She’s Come Undone leaps to mind, the time tested books she (or her assistant) chose, shape narrative, character and cultural boundaries. Whe ...
... next read but I just might put it back to the bottom of the pile.
One book with rave reviews that I just didn't like was A million little pieces . I found it very tedious.
... Joss
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shattered by Dick Francis
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
I'm reading James Frey's A Million Little Pieces , but I don't know whether to classify it as non-fic or not.
# 81 - Reportedly (who knows how true this is), he originally wanted to publish A Million Little Pieces as a novel, but his publisher/agent/editor insisted it would sell better as a memoir.
Could all be a load of excrement. But I think getting publicly chewed out by Ms. Winfrey is certainly ...
#72 I read A Million Little Pieces before all the drama and BS started, and I followed the whole thing very closely. My opinion? The book is wonderful, and really affected me personally. Beyond that, I don't care. He shouldn't have lied, of course, but he did, and that doesn't take away from the ...
... the beautiful prose and the way the author played with words, making new words and new meanings.
I recently read A Million Little Pieces and although it has been considered favourably by most, I found it to be very self-indulgent and ended up skipping whole pages. Hope you have a ...
... Suns was next--a quick and wonderful read. I did, however, like Kite Runner more. Now, I'm thinking about reading A Million Little Pieces before my two book club reads.
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40. We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
41. The Book of Names by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori
42. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
43. Digging to America by Anne tyler
44. Wish by Peter Goldsworthy
45. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
46. ...
1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2)
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2)
3. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (1)
4. Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler (1)
5. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Actually, Walking the Bible didn't make my top 5 ...
How would you flag A Million Little Pieces ? How would you flag the Bible?
I'm just saying, it's not super simple, and keep in mind that this is the only place on the entire site where we differentiate between fiction and nonfiction. Take a look at some tags sometime - check out Memoirs of a Ge ...
1. The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
2. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
3. You Can’t Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
1. The Book Thief by Mark Zusak (2)
2. Geisha by Liza Dalby (1)
3. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2)
4. You Can’t Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan (2)
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2)
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charlenemartel, I'd like to hear what you think of A Million Little Pieces after you read it. Before the controversy, everyone raved about it. Now it gets mixed reviews.
I first started listening to it on audio. It was so powerful! Midway through the audio version, I realized (b ...
Update! Do feel free to comment!
18. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
I don't care what anyone says about the contents of this book being "invented". I think this book was great! It was a very absorbing and dramatic look at drug and alcohol rehab. I imagine that recovery from ...
... if I bought an Oprah selection!
But my snobbery -- or maybe it's just personal prejudice -- does extend to books like A Million Little Pieces which I consider part of the the "Messed Up Young Person Sees the Light and Bares Soul (Real or Imagined) for as Much Publicity and Money as Possible ...
... reads.
Now Oprah is back on the right road. She chose Night -- which I thought was an excellent selection. She chose A Million Little Pieces which was a great book (although I know it was "invented"). Nevertheless, it had a great impact on me.
I was sorry when Oprah gave up her book ...
... very long one, I get lost in how much there is, can't read it all, etc. etc.
This is late, but here are my top 5:
1. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
2. The Famished Road by Ben Okri
3. The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
4. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro ...
... what he was correct on, and other things that never played out. Now I want to read his current articles.
Also reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Which I am not sure should count as non-fiction, as it has come out that his story is much embellished, and many facts have been ...
... for the truths it revealed about men and sexuality in this predominantly Muslim culture.
2. Moods -- I am also reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. This book is about the author's experiences in drug and alcohol recovery. I *do* know that parts of this book were "invented" but ...
Today I'm in a drug and alcohol rehab center in Minnesota. I've been reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.
I just started reading A Million Little Pieces . The book is so sad, but a very engaging story.
I was amused by the tags for this book here at LT. According to the size of the tags in the tag cloud, it is categorized both as fiction and nonfiction by approximately the same number of people! : ...
... by Jennifer Bothamley
Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
... by Jennifer Bothamley
Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Edited to try and get the touchstones to work. Oh, well. :-/
... anything she has written about gardening. A Small Place is one of favorite pieces of personal writing.
Oh, I hated A Million Little Pieces but felt compelled to come to Frey's defense when the "shocking" truth came out. It's a memoir not text book. I assume that most memoirs have a ...
... as a way to escape everyday life and have a bot of fun. Brown falls into that category for me.
Some people called A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard by James Frey trash because he lied about them being real. But I, again, enjoyed them as I read them as a piece of ...
bonzickle: Are you aware of the contoversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces ? Finish reading it first. I read it before the kerfuffle.
Started A Million Little Pieces by James Frey only 2 days ago and am already halfway through. A very intimate, moving book. Roll on 5 o'clock so I can get back to it!
I jsut realized I should have used the "Touchstone" format:
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
... memoirs, biographies, autobiographies I have read include Lucky Man, Hole in My Life, Behind rebel lines, Night and A Million Little Pieces (before it the controversy. I look forward to ideas for what to read next in this genre!
... me aware of how subjective meaning is. Anything by Noam Chomsky opens my eyes to all kinds of things I need to know. A Million Little Pieces really made me think about addiction in a different way.
... it's a series of essays rather than a memoir per se but still true life stuff. I have to stand by James Frey and Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard.
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