Title: Why are we glorifying a guy who jumped the system?
Product review: Does anyone else think it's wrong that James Frey didn't serve time for the crimes he committed before he went into rehab? His mob and judge friends got him off the hook--enabling him to serve 6 months in jail instead of several years in prison. While this book was a page turner, I find it disturbing that we're glorifying (and making rich) a guy who jumped the system. He may even have been a murderer--something he never clarifies. I would respect James had he served the consequences for what he did, and actually shown some remorse for his disgusting behavior. To me, that's as much a part of rehab as getting off the substances. Instead, he wrote 22 pages of his "sins" and then burned them--I guess that was his payment? But this is a guy who thinks he's above everything, including the rehab program he was in. He really is his own God. People like that scare me, and it scares me that our culture is so oblivious.
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