Apparently it's A MILLION LITTLE LIES

For those of you who watch Oprah and like to read (or maybe one of the 2), you might be interested to know that James Frey is now accused of being a liar. I'm half way through his gripping, raw personal truth entitled A Million Little Pieces, and apparently it's mostly embelleshing to the point of being plain old lies. This is all to my dismay because the book is actually quite riveting whether fiction or not. According to www.thesmokinggun.com, Frey is nothing more than a beer drinking college student who happened to smoke some pot. Sounds like most teenagers right? In his defense, the novel was refused to be published as a fictional work. So where do we draw the line. I mean, no writer can be completely removed and objectional when it comes to writing. Experience and self cannot help but filter into any piece and even science fiction includes part of the truth. Many world pronounced authors include much of the truth in their fiction, setting exact times and places and merely creating a story around them, interjecting characters. So what if James Frey wasn't convicted of Felony Mayhem and never spent more than a day or so in jail. If what it takes for people to relate to his pain is to embellish, then so be it. Afterall, he finished rehab and probably didn't write the book for therapy. He wrote it to have a life and to inspire others to have one too. Take it for what it is and leave the rest. Good press, bad press, it's all good in Mr. Frey's pocket book right? So it may be he knows more of the truth than the rest of us who are wasting time picking it apart.