{"id":452,"date":"2008-05-20T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/after-the-public-tongue-lashing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T20:05:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T03:05:32","slug":"after-the-public-tongue-lashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/20\/after-the-public-tongue-lashing\/","title":{"rendered":"After the public tongue-lashing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

from BuzzSugar.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Will You Read the New James Frey Book?<\/a><\/h1>\n

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<\/span>Soon after Oprah chose James Frey’s\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/a>\u00a0for her book club, the memoir became a bestseller. But then it was revealed that Frey had exaggerated and even made up pivotal plot elements and characters in his “memoir.” Not only was Frey humiliated in the publishing world, but after Oprah dragged him onto her couch for\u00a0a difficult-to-watch public tongue lashing<\/a>, many figured the man would never work again.<\/p>\n

Well, he did work again. Frey wrote a novel called\u00a0Bright Shiny Morning<\/a>\u00a0(on bookshelves today) that was given a\u00a0glowing review by the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0in which the reviewer wrote, “He got another chance. Look what he did with it. He stepped up to the plate and hit one out of the park. No more lying, no more melodrama, still run-on sentences still funny punctuation but so what. He became a furiously good storyteller this time.”<\/p>\n

That is the kind of review that is hard to come by for any author, much less one whose career hit rock bottom in a swirl of controversy and who managed to enrage the queen of book clubs. I have to say I’m intrigued by this excellent review.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about checking out a new book by James Frey?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Will You Read the New James Frey Book?<\/span><\/p>\n

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[ click to vote in the poll at BuzzSugar.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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