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#1
By
the blue letter
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28-10-2005, 06:49
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I wouldnt trust any book recomended by Oprah to be anything more than a
biased work of some guy who went through AA and found jesus. It might be worth a look but if your getting your drug education through oprah or any other education for that matter its destined to be skewed |
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#2
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brandonBOYDrox
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30-10-2005, 01:19
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i'm sorry it's a MILLION little Pieces.
and no he didnt go through AA which is why i thought it would be good. in fact, he's supposedly getting a lot of shit from ppl for saying that AA wouldn't work for him. |
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#3
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ContnWantn
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30-10-2005, 22:08
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Im reading it right now, and Im about at the middle.... seems good, but waiting for something signifigant to happen... judging by the oprah show and everyones opinions on there I thought it would be just amazing and hard to put down just like they all said but so far its slow going, and not much has happened.. mabye if you're total naive to the whole drugs world it might be great but if you have any experience or knowledge of things it seems so slow. I think it will however help a lot of people, and his style of writing definately makes you feel like you're part of it... unlike any other style I've ever read... Compared to some of the people on this site for example he was someone that thought taking a drink and smoking 2 joints was hardcore!!! but I guess its all relative... peace, read it, I think oprah is a great person by the way and I'm male... |
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#4
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brandonBOYDrox
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03-11-2005, 08:59
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yay another oprah fan! haha. i just ordered it off amazon im excited
but i'm glad u said that b/c i don't wanna be too disappointed when i read it and it's not as good as i thought. |
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#5
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Guest
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04-11-2005, 05:25
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yeah i read it, its really really good, it really makes you think about drugs and stuff, but he started drinking when he was ten and smoked crack at 20 and now hes in rehab at 23. it just kinda like gives you insight about addiction, not necessarily drug use moderately. it really kind of puts you where he is. he is an excellent writer. and it does keep you reading. its moving.
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#6
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"a million little pieces" author proved total liar!
Check out the Smoking Gun. James Frey (of "Oprah" fame) was full of shit. Big surprise, that one.
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#7
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old hippie 56
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10-01-2006, 18:17
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He was on NBC Today show this morning, still saying he wrote the truth.
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Read the link, Alfa, it's an interesting story. The book is about all the horrible things he supposedly did while he was a druggie. The most famous claim of his is that he had a root canal done with no anaesthesia.
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#10
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Alfa
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10-01-2006, 19:44
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Yeah, I read the first page. But still; Oprah is a lot about drama. This is not the first BS story about drug addiction in Oprah. Therefore I do not give any value to anything in that show. And as the smoking gun story describes, the succes of the book is owed to Oprah.
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#12
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IHrtHalucingens
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10-01-2006, 20:44
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That is a very informative article, it seems like TSG did a very thorough job discrediting Frey. I can't see how he can refute any of their evidence, actual court and arrest records kept by a police department is alot more credible than what some self-admitted drug addict and "bad-ass" Criminal says happened. Rediculous, anyone who bought his book should demand their money back, he doesnt deserve a penny of it.
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#14
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rideburton56
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25-01-2006, 06:31
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I have to come to Frey's defense on this one... the disputed facts in the book first of all are not nearly as pivotal as the smoking gun makes them out to be, if you put all those facts together its no more than 3 pages of the book, actually not even one. Whats most important about these books is the story of a drug addcit, and how he dragged himself through the recovery process. Theres absolutely no question that he ws very much addicted to drugs. I will say it was silly of him to say it was a memior... but then again when im fucked up i dont remember things perfect as well. before you go judging this book pick it up and read it, even if you do have to tell yourself ok its fiction. i for one think that the vast majority is true, and whats way more important than how many days in jail he served is the story that is told in the pages.
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#16
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old hippie 56
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30-01-2006, 18:45
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Oprah had to tell her fans that she was duped by a storyteller. Seen it on network news. It was quite amusing.
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#17
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pharmapsyche
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30-01-2006, 20:49
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#18
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Pinkavvy
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30-01-2006, 21:29
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The answer is very simple. As i've stated many times in the past, people here dont look kindly upon lies that demoninze and dehumanize drug use. the lies in his book help demonize drug use in his book, which is aboslutely wrong. If you buy into the concept that it's ok to lie as long as the end results are good, then you are surely mistaken. The Ends do not justify the means. It is not ok to tell lies that demonize drugs, just becuase in the end it may help a few shallow-willed individuals. That's the same thing as saying it's ok for the DEA and federal government to lie to our kids and say marijuana kills brain cells and leads to heroin and HIV, becuase it may prevent some addiction in the long run. Fuck that. Lies and propoganda are never right, even if it may help somebody somehwere for a second.
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#19
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pharmapsyche
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30-01-2006, 21:57
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First of all, The exaderations that James Frey made within his book can not be compared to the DEA and/or Federal government to lieing to the human race about marijuana or and drugs, that would be a much bigger problem and would be wrong. James isn't lieing to make him look 'cool' and he wasn't lieing to help anyone over come drug or alcohol addiction, he was exaderating to make the book a good book, as well it is, consdiering it was a New York Bestseller and people loved it until the Smoking Gun decided to ruin it because they have nothing better to do than rip on people for a living. Who cares if he didn't actually hit a cop, within the book. Who cares if he had alcohol in his car and not cocaine? It's not like he wasn't in rehab for cocaine. He wasn't lieing about an addiction he had. As he stated on Larry King Live, He wouldn't of been able to write such a good book, if he never had those experiences. Everyone is too critical, my god! Let the man live. It's because people who critizce him that people will never get to read a book like that by him again, and i find that sad. The man is only human, give it a break. It's a book, not a poster stating facts. Have any of you ever read any books by Hunter S. Thompson? Have you ever read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?! Do you really think he took 100 hits of acid and drove to Las Vegas with his friend in a nice red car, while drinking and tripping and not die or get caught? I don't think so. Both are awesome books and should be treated as nothing less!
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#20
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polloloco001
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30-01-2006, 23:03
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james freys lies were not small exaggerations to prove a point. he made up a whole fake life for himself. the guy was a frat boy who smoked a little weed. he first tried to sell the book as fiction but nobody would buy it cuz its such fucking trash. since reading the smoking gun article a week or two ago (hadnt noticed this thread about it until today) i have been telling everybody i see reading that book that it is full of shit and they shouldnt read it. if you walk down the street in an area where people are reading a lot of books (yuppie spots with cofee shops and whatever) half the people you see are reading this piece of shit book. the guy isnt trying to help drug addicts, hes trying to make money, and succeeding. so fuck him and fuck oprah for making this massive lie written in incomplete sentences one of the most popular books in america.
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#21
By
pharmapsyche
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31-01-2006, 00:18
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That was the most pathetic post I've read and I totally disagree with it! You are acting as if James Frey is trying to scam people for there money! Yeah Right! I'm sure he spent all that time writing the book "A million little pieces" and the following book "My Friend Lenord", just to scam the human race of there money. Good Lord, the man is an author and writer...he writes because he loves it. He never thought it would be a New York Bestseller, it wasn't even his intention! This is the best book I have personally ever read and I am offened when you say, I quote, "Piece of shit book". Thats just wrong. The Smoking Gun is an example of pathetic, do they have nothing better to do than rip on people and try there best to destroy them?! I understand it's there job, but what kinda of sick life is that anyways!? This book is not full of lies, the main topic is that he went to Drug and Alcohol rehab and got better by not following the rules they wanted him too. The basic point of this book is that he got well by himself and without little help from other. He repeats himself on how he didn't follow 'The Tweleve Steps', because the tweleve steps are just something some guy made up, which is true. Also, I notice your quote "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" by the author Hunter S. Thompson. I'm also a big fan of Hunter S. Thompson, but here you are talking so bad about the lies that James Frey made, have you never read Hunter's writings?! Do you really think he took hundreds of blotters of LSD-25 and drank all the way up to Las Vegas without dieing or getting caught? No way, it's a alittle bit of an exaggeration!
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#22
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rideburton56
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31-01-2006, 00:28
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#23
By
pharmapsyche
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31-01-2006, 00:44
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Thank you rideburton56, that needed to be said!
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