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Date Posted: 11:12:04 01/28/06 Sat
Author: Robert
Subject: Re: Million Little Pieces
In reply to: lump 's message, "Million Little Pieces" on 15:15:58 01/27/06 Fri

GRRR...I clicked clear instead of send!

In short (I'm not re-typing my whole answer)...I think that this guy is ethically wrong for lying about addiction, when people who suffer with it have looked to his work for a way out of their opwn darkness. I suffered through addiction to Rx meds, and it changed me a lot. You can't know what it's like unless you have been addicted to something and had to get clean. To that end, shame on him for lying...but at the same time, he seems to have known enough to write a book that resonated with and helped people.

It's a wash IMO. I'd likely question anything he ever writes again...so to that end he's lost the one thing that is important among all others...your word. My dad and my grandfather both told me that at the end of the day, the only thing that a man truly owns is his word...and once you've lost that, it doesn't matter how much money you make, or how much power you obtain in life...if your word doesn't mean anything, you're worthless.

Ethics...good to see that they still matter to many people :)

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[> [> Re: Million Little Pieces -- tg, 15:32:36 01/28/06 Sat [1]

NEW YORK (AP) - James Frey, disgraced author of A Million Little Pieces, has a hard luck story he doesn't want to share: he will not write a book about the unravelling of his admittedly tainted million-selling memoir of addiction and recovery.

"I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want to do at all," Frey said in a segment on Oprah Winfrey's syndicated talk show that was taped but not immediately aired, after Thursday's explosive program when Winfrey turned against the author whose book she endorsed last fall.

Frey's comments were part of Oprah After the Show, a conversation featuring Frey, Winfrey and publisher Nan Talese to be broadcast Friday night on the Oxygen network, a cable channel Winfrey helped found.

Despite Frey's on-air humiliation, when Winfrey berated him and the author acknowledged key parts of the books were invented, A Million Little Pieces kept on selling. On Friday, it was in the top five on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

Meanwhile, publishers and agents agreed tighter scrutiny is needed after Talese acknowledged what the industry knows well but perhaps not the general public: memoirs are not fact-checked.

Despite calls from Winfrey and others to tighten standards, many doubt publishers will hire fact-checkers.

"Publishing companies run on pretty tight budgets and there's just not enough time to check every book," said Viking associate publisher Paul Slovak.

"But it is possible that somebody might look at these books with a slightly more alert eye."

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