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Article: Sorry, Oprah.: It's still a great book!Yes: Lies, bad; truth, good. But amid all the furor and scolding, one thing has been overlooked: The guy can write!
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- January 30, 2006
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Byline: Julia Keller
Jan. 30--A nice deep breath, please. In and out. That's right.
Thank you.
Perhaps we can take advantage of this temporary calm, this blessed respite from rancor and scolding, to acknowledge a largely forgotten but not altogether irrelevant truth:
"A Million Little Pieces" is one terrific book.
It's hypnotically readable and deeply moving. It breaks new ground with its narrative structure and typography. Even the punctuation -- or lack thereof -- is weirdly riveting.
Yet amid the quite legitimate furor over author James Frey's fibs and flourishes, amid the high-decibel debates about the murky rules ...