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I Serve Larry's Stick
Has anyone read this book by James Frey? I've read back and forth reviews on it and was curious to hear the opinions here.
Doozer61 said:
Although it tells about his time at Hazelden, Mr Frey is very anti-12 step programs.
"Book Club" author's best-selling nonfiction memoir filled with fabrications, falsehoods, other fakery, TSG probe finds
Carek1230 said:
And while on the subject of books.....has anyone read the Memoirs of a Geisha book? I hear it was written by a male author! How can it be?!!!
redkat said:I'm not even gonna finish the book. After reading the smoking gun thing...meh
It seems like many people could write an extreme story of addcition. The fact that this was real was the hook.
According to a February 2003 New York Observer story by Joe Hagan, Frey originally tried to sell the book as a fictional work, but the Talese imprint "declined to publish it as such." A retooled manuscript, presumably with all the fake stuff excised, was published in April 2003 amid a major publicity campaign.