Title: hello--he lied!
Product review: I don't deny that this is a powerful, resonant life story. It's just not James Frey's life story. If he wanted to create a character who lived this life, he could easily have done so with a novel. There are many wonderful, compelling autobiographical fiction, from PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT to HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK.[...]Only he knows why. Personally, I don't think his reasons matter. He could have written this as fiction. But he told his publisher that these things happened to him, and his publisher believed him, and Oprah believed him and his readers believed him. He signed a contract with his publisher which warranted that he was acting in good faith and that he was not misrepresenting the truth (this is standard in all publishing contracts).It turns out he was lying. The book itself is still wonderful. The author, however, is pathetic, and contemptible.
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