Publisher : San Val
Publication Date : 2004 05 11
>> Very Satisfied
The book came just the way described Very happy with it Would buy from them again
>> I need a long shower I feel dirty after reading this book
I read this knowing full well it was fiction after the furor The plot is sophmoric Everything tied up so neatly Tiresome language And the treatment of the female lead is a deplorable exploitation It s hard to exploit someone who is not real but that might be Frey s singular talent Dreck
>> Exploitation of addiction
This was a strange little book on the one hand we have James Frey embellishing most if not all of his recovery from addiction misleading all readers and self aggrandizing his disease On the other this was admittedly a true page turner one which took me only a short time to finish I took this on with all the knowledge of Frey s delusion This dichotomy is what faces me as I try to objectively review this best seller
Maybe this perversion is what Frey originally had in mind and if it was assuming the reader can get past the untruths then this still is a work worth reading No literary marvel here again perhaps Frey s intent the reader is bombarded with straight ahead no b s prose that constantly attacks the senses and draws you in The character development is certainly un Dickensian but stays true to the vein in which Frey portrays this story hard to the point and all with a million flaws I ll wager that most who start this book will fly through it with gusto just to see how this haywire cast ends up and to see if Frey s impertinent approach to recovery works
So I have to say go on and take the plunge Knowing Frey s betrayal one should still read this for what it is a dark symptomatic account of addiction and recovery that hits you over the head and leaves you left me at least with a better feeling for what the dispossessed go through
