A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
“Well, the book was published as a memoir, about the author’s struggle with addiction and time spent in a rehab center, and – the book is – you know, as it turns out, maybe a little more fiction than memoir.
I think the first thing that really caught my attention about the book was the writing style and how it’s sort of written in a very stream-of-consciousness…. After reading the book and it coming out that it was more a work of fiction that was based off of experiences the author had that he embellished, it actually didn’t bother me. I know that that’s like the reason the book’s had a lot of controversy, but kind of relate it to like your grandfather’s stories and over the years how much of those have been embellished.
I think most people who write memoirs are taking something that actually happened to them and then making it more interesting for other people to want to read about it, so it didn’t bother me.”
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