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  • AWESOME book!!! I'd read it again in a heart beat. There were some slow parts, some depressing parts, but it's worth the read. I don't care what people think about James Frey, he is an awesome writer and I applaud him!!!

    

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  • Ignore the haters

  • This book rocks. Screw the nitpickers.

    

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  • Ugh. I don't even care whether it's true or not (maybe if he'd set out to write a novel, the self-aggrandizement might actually have been interesting). The writing is dreadful- he's the male version of the teenage girl who fancies herself the new Sylvia Plath despite lacking both talent and traged ... Continue

    Ugh. I don't even care whether it's true or not (maybe if he'd set out to write a novel, the self-aggrandizement might actually have been interesting). The writing is dreadful- he's the male version of the teenage girl who fancies herself the new Sylvia Plath despite lacking both talent and tragedy. Just substitute Hemingway for Plath, and you have James Frey.

    

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• ― Kip said on Aug 17, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

“The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’ Junky.” —The Boston Globe

“Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey’s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A brutal, beautifully written memoir.”—The Denver Post

“Gripping . . . A great story . . . You can’t help but cheer his victory.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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