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Originally Posted by adidasss
There was a major controversy about it because until Oprah chose it for her Book club it went fairly unnoticed, then it sold a few million copies and all under the assumption that it was a true memoir of Frey's life. Later it was found out that it was "embellished" (=a pack of lies), which lead Oprah to feel a bit duped, so she called him on the show and slaughtered him. The man is obviously demented and caused his own ruin...but hopefully his lies did make him enough money because something tells me he's not a good enough writer to let his work (as fiction) stand on its own (certainly not good enough to sell in the millions).
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Couldn't have waited til I finished? I wasn't aware, so the book isn't so great anymore. I was really looking forward to seeing him on Late Late show on friday too.