A Million Little Pieces
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- Jaline0
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.
kingjulien
(Jan 26 06, 14:46)Exactly.
Also, he looked pretty depressed during his appearance on the Larry King Live show a few days ago, and was a bit uplifting after Oprah phoned in to defend him. Even validate him in a way.
And then today, she completely changed her mind after he told her right out that he made some of the stuff up.
Upon hearing his voice for the first time, I was a bit taken aback. He doesn't sound as tough as he is in the book. Right after I thought that, he said that he is probably not as tough as he wrote himself to be.
Anyway, yeah, he seemed to be visibly upset about the whole thing. Plus he has more book deals on the way.