A Million Little Pieces
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- kingjulien0
The truth is, even books that claim to be memoirs are really fictionalized, just by the nature of choosing what to include and what to omit. I mean, there's no way we can cover every detail of our lives in a book, so we include the most interesting, useful fragments, and omit the trivial or uninteresting parts. It's like reality TV. The Real World isn't real. It's 10,000 hours edited into 13 episodes, selecting the most drama filled moments that will entertain the largest audience. The whole genre of memoirs is flawed. That's why, regardless of what Frey says, he should have just presented the work as fiction. That way the focus would be on the writing and not the controversy, although ironically, the discrepancy is probably helping book sales.