In 2003, James Frey established his contempt for the literary memoir format by releasing 'A Million Little Pieces,' a supposed memoir that turned out to be full of lies.Oprah Winfrey helped make 'Pieces' into a bestseller in 2005 when she made it a selection for her popular book club and interviewed the author on her show. But hteir second meeting in 2006 wasn't quite as amicable, when it came to light that Frey had fabricated large parts of the story and he returned to the show to admit that he had made up parts of the book and receive a verbal flogging from the talk show queen.
On Monday's 'The Oprah Winfrey Show', Winfrey reunited with Frey on the road to her final episode, and he reaffirmed his feelings about memoirs.





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Liars think that everybody lies , they are wrong
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Frey is not only a cautionary tale, he is everything that is wrong with the state of writing today. He lacks integrity and talent. Take a look at the new venture he's put together which blatantly rips off new writers with false promises and shamelessly taking advantage of their vulnerability. Frey is in short a pig.
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James Frey lies all the time. He's pissed cuz he got caught. The worst thing he did in Million Little Pieces is turned some addicts away from 12-Step programs because he solved his fictional problems with his fictional willpower. Shame on you James.
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I don't care if he was lying or not, the book is an EXCELLENT read. For me, it did what it what meant to do, entertain.
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Oprah needs to stop digging at this man. Done lets move on, she already put him up for every punishment he got. He is no different then half the books out there, he just got caught, and Oprah does not like to be made a fool of. Took her long enough to apologize for the public flogging.
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It will be interesting to see how OWN does with her at the helm soon! Could this thing go down like the Titanic??
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Oprah is so covered with layers of pretense and disingenuousness that you need a translator to understand her. I got fed up with her
haughtiness long ago and I csn't even look at her. She was anointed the modern day Plato or Socrates and she's never shown one iota of humility since. What right does Harpo have to scold anyone?
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get off your high horses. how many of u guys lie when talking to friends much less publish a book.
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