i don't understand the big deal about James Frey making shit up for his memoir A Million Easy Pieces and his getting dropped by his publisher for it.anyone who thinks that any memoir is or has to be "the truth" doesn't understand the nature of story-telling or writing for that matter. does anyone here think that the parts of Bill Clinton's memoir dealing with Monica Lewinsky are the way Monica remembers them? a liberal? a conservative?
the point is, a book doesn't have to be true to be true. If anyone has ever read The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien knows this. If the story is good enough for you to ask, "is that true?" then it is, even if the events never happened.
it's obvious that Frey knows how to write. otherwise, no one would read him. you would think his publishers would realize this, but by dropping him, they've shown that they are daft as Oprah and the American reading public as a whole.
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