[misterrob]

I have heard nothing but hype about this guy, James Frey. Women all over the place talking abut how much they loved his book and how heart wrenching his story was. Turns out he fabricated a bunch of stuff.

Oprah must be pissed!!!!

[BamaAndy]

Mine is a fictionalized but true story. Heart & Iron--the loves, the wars, the loss, the wins.

[Calico Cat]

God, her show is tiresome. Too many teary, hyper-emotional, self-pitying women for me.

[DGray]

This is currently a hot topic on another online community where I frequent. Many people there have read the book and recommended it to others. They're all pretty p*ssed off at this guy.

I personally never even looked at this book - didn't seem like the sort of thing I'm interested in.

[GaltMeister]

He wrote a book full of hokum, and Americans love hokum.

[AppyPappy]

I went on a trip and a guy played a tape from an AA convention by a guy who made all these wild accusations about his life. He thought we would be amazed at his turn around but to a man, we all said "That was a bunch of BS. He never did that stuff".

Women are soaking it up like a kitten drinking milk. I'm reading this stuff and thinking "This guy is a BS artist". No wonder women loved Clinton so much. They can't smell BS.

[2banana]

In a New York Times review, Janet Maslin mocked the author--a former alcoholic who has rejected the precepts of Alcoholics Anonymous--for instead hewing to a cynical "memoirist's Twelve Step program." A few journalists have openly questioned the truthfulness of some book passages, especially segments dealing with Frey undergoing brutal root-canal surgery without the aid of anesthesia and an airplane trip during which an incapacitated Frey is bleeding, has a hole in his cheek, and is wearing clothes covered with "a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." And then there's the time in Paris (he's supposedly fled to Europe after jumping bail in Ohio) when, on his way to commit suicide by throwing himself into the Seine, Frey stops into a church to have a good cry. There, a "Priest," while pretending to listen to Frey's description of his wrecked life, makes a lunge for Frey's crotch. "You must not resist God's will, my Son," says the priest. A vicious beatdown ensues, with Frey possibly killing the grasping cleric, whom the author kicked in the balls 15 times. Mon dieu!

Another sad and pathetic attack on God and the Church. I wonder how many people have been hurt by this bit of fiction masquerading as fact? - that they too can get rid of addictions like alcoholism without the benefit of a program of AA - which, of course, relies on God...

[toddlintown]

Fake but true.

BTW, women are the biggest sector of book buyers.

[sine_nomine]

I always wonder what we can learn from these criminal confessions. I knew a guy who went around talking about his druggie past, got booked in all the schools. How about someone who went through life sober and out of jail?

A criminal is going to manipulate his story. I am surprised that anyone is surprised.

[mal]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1554524/posts

[Savage Beast]

I admire Oprah very much. The book was gruesome. If it was fiction rather than autobiography, what's the big deal?

[Liberty Valance]

Wake me up when Oprah uses Atlas Shrugged for her book club. ;o)

[Red Badger]

Liberal women are SOOOOOOOO easy to con...............

[pabianice]

Fake but accurate?

[texas_mrs]

I am reading this book right now due to my MIL's insistance that my husband and I do so. She is trying to build a case for us to take in his son when he gets out of the pen for meth. So far, I am only more sure than before I don't want him in my house or around the rest of us. Ever.

[manwiththehands]

Fake but "accurate". Dan Rather must be one of this guy's biggest fans.

[litehaus]

Simple explanation...He musta gone to the New York Times School of book writing like Duranty and Blair....

[cubreporter]

Some people are so gulible. So very gulible. They believe anything and especially if they are encouraged by a celebrity.

[FReepaholic]

... "I figured he was taking license...he's a writer, you know, they don't tell everything that's factual and true." ...

Also known as New York Times journalists.

[goresalooza]

I gave up on Oprah years ago when she became the self-professed guru of workouts, home decorating, cooking, fashion, psychology, gynecology, zen, Hollywood, publishing and everything else under the sun. I cannot stand her anymore, she just grates on my nerves.

I read what I decide to read, Oprah can't tell me or convince me to read what she reads. I refuse to become brainwashed into thinking Oprah is all that.

[subterfuge]

Well I read the whole stupid article and I don't see any proof or smoking gun. Where are the obvious, glaring lies promised by the headline? The authors proved nothing, much as I'd like to see Oprah look foolish.