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Title: A Million Little Pieces
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Manufacturer: Anchor
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| A Million Little Pieces by Anchor A Million Little Pieces | | Excellent! Two thumbs up!! This book touched me on such a personal level. Immediately after I finished reading, I bought another copy and sent it to my son to help him. He read the book in less than two days and finally found someone who had the same experiences and passions and the same mentality about recovery. Mind over matter. It's a matter of choice. | | A Million Little Pieces by Anchor What It Makes You Feel Is Real | | I read A Million Little Pieces before the Oprah controversy and again after. Even after hearing that this was a fictionalized "Memoir" it didn't take away any of the raw power this book has for me. It is one of my favorite books, it moves me deeply. I feel so much for the characters especially James and Lilly who are two damaged individuals that reveal the ugliest parts of themselves and find solace in each other. You cannot help but feel personally invested in this story. | | A Million Little Pieces by Anchor Extremely engrossing and hard to put down | | Quite frankly, if this isn't a true story and is marketed as one, that's pretty crappy. However, this book grabbed my attention fast and didn't let go. I would read it at stoplights, on my lunch break, etc. I couldn't put it down and I read it in just a few days. In my opinion a good book is a book that holds your attention, is easy to follow, makes you laugh, makes you cry and is overall entertaining. This book did all of those things, as well as the sequel, My Friend Leonard. I LOVE both of them and would recommend them to anyone. | | A Million Little Pieces by Anchor Wonderfull! | | I found a million little pieces to be a stirring, moving and captivating piece of literature. From the moment I started reading I was totally drawn in to the story and writing style and found it not only a page turner butgripping and heartfelt. It does not matter to me that some of this story was fabricated because obviously the main tenant is true.Liked his message "just hang on" although I personally subscribe to a different philosophy. Having written my own book- Confessions of a Crack Head, I could relate to much of his story and identify. A great read! | | A Million Little Pieces by Anchor I don't care what anyone else says | I was referred to this book by an old friend of mine who got into doing drugs until they finally overcame his life. I had just gone through a bad phase myself and was now cleaning up. He was not. He told me 2 things: 1. you need get your life together. and 2. if you want to understand how i feel and what my life is like read this book. And told me about James Frey and a million little pieces.
The script is very monotone and dry and the writing is very different than anything else I have read. It was refreshing. Frey has a great way of explaining exactly what he was thinking.
I don't care if people don't believe in what he says and all the controversy. I read it before that all went down and didn't pay any attention to it. When you get off drugs your memory isn't going to be perfect and you just relay it the best way you know how. | | A Million Little Pieces by Anchor Product Description | “The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’ Junky.” —The Boston Globe
“Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey’s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A brutal, beautifully written memoir.”—The Denver Post
“Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can’t help but cheer his victory.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review | | A Million Little Pieces by Anchor Amazon.com | News 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. We are immediately taking the following actions: We are issuing a publisher's note to be included in all future printings of the book.* James Frey has written an author's note that will appear in all future printings of the book.* Read the author's note. The jacket for all future editions will carry the line "With new notes from the publisher and from the author."
*Customers should find the Author's Note and Publisher's Note in copies purchased from Amazon.com after April 15, 2006.
Note: The following editorial reviews were written before the recent revelations by James Frey and the publisher.
Amazon.com
The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on: I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can. One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a former championship boxer, and a mobster (who, upon his release, throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation. The rage-fueled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. --Brad Thomas Parsons |
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