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nunzi182 · Kate Spade

Book: a million little pieces, who read it?

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

I JUST finished it yesterday. You are going to love it!

From what I have heard the overall book is true , but some of the stories have been exgrated to add a few details to make it more "horrific".

None the less , weather true or only partly true I thought the book was amazing.

Kitty · Hermes

He made up a lot of it.

I personally hated that book.

itsapinkthing · Coach

I read it too. Even to say parts are EXAGERATED, is being nice. From what I hear too, most of it is untrue. The book was okay, but I felt that way more in amazment that someone could overcome all of those things. Then to learn in was mostly false...

Mandy · Kate Spade

i loved it. i read it before it came out that parts were exaggerated/made up and it didn't change my opinion at all. he may have exaggerated things a bit but that it probably close to how he perceived them at the time. when things are that bad, it seems normal that everything might appear even worse than reality. only hindsight would indicate the "truth." i also love that it shows that you can overcome an addiction without aa or 12 steps. it may be harder, and not everyone can do it, but i do like that its a story of someone who found the strength in himself.

manhattanmonkey · Kenneth Cole

I read it....well, most of it. A lot of it is altered. It could probably even be labeled "based on a true story."

Nonetheless, I thought it was good and really gave an insiders view on addiction.

halleybird · Hermes

some parts were exaggerated, others were completely false. Here's the original story from The Smoking Gun:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html

I didn't really like the book, and I didn't find it especially well-written, either. The depiction of addiction was good, but not anything that hasn't been done before IMO.