dreamseeker
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Has anyone read A Million Little Pieces by James Frey?
If so, I would love to discuss it...
All the best!
If so, I would love to discuss it...
All the best!
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dreamseeker said:Has anyone read A Million Little Pieces by James Frey?
If so, I would love to discuss it...
All the best!
novella said:I read the first chapter and was really put off by his self-aggrandising sense of entitlement. Just then I happened to read an interview with Frey in the NY Observer (last year, when the book came out), and he really is an arrogant bastard, which pretty much killed the book for me.
novella said:
CDA said:Oh well - I don't think I will be reading this after all. I don't like writers who don't use quotation marks for dialogue, and what's with all the capitalisations?
WoundedThorns said:. i've read a book in this style before though.
CDA said:So have I - but I think for me to put up with it, the writer has to be really good at making sure the reader knows what's going on. And from what I read, I don't think this is going to one of those books.
I found the book interesting, although I agree the style does get tedious at points. I know the author did this so we'd see it from the real perspective, and its very intense and engaging. But after a while it simply becomes too intense, and you're waiting for an upbeat moment to break the constant stream of almost melodrama [ not that I'm trivializing anything the author went through, of course ]Kookamoor said:I'm not a fan of the style at all. The dialogue doesn't seem to flow very well, although it is realistic... perhaps that's the problem. I do like the opening and I was drawn in, wanting to read more. But after a while the style just became annoying, not knowing immediately what was said and what was a thought.