Post by Laurentius on Feb 3, 2006 15:45:59 GMT -5
Maybe you've heard or seen the news already but I didn't and learnt recently that several stories in the memoirs of Mr. Frey were fabricated. Here is what an article says about it...
www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/books/02frey.html
If you can't read it all, here are some excerpts...
[on the reason that he lied, Fre says...]
"I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require,"
[...]
Overall, his portrayal in "A Million Little Pieces," is of a person who "I created in my mind to help me cope" with drug addiction and recovery. He said most of the invented material "portrayed me in ways that made me tougher and more daring and more aggressive than in reality I was, or I am."
The events and details were invented, he said, "in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the book," specifically to "detail the fight addicts and alcoholics experience in their minds and in their bodies, and detail why that fight is difficult to win."
[an expert commenting on the impact of the author's admission of fabrications in his memoir...]
"I believe most readers of those statements would think, 'I don't know what I can believe,' and conclude, 'I will look for a book that is more authentic by a writer whose experiences are obviously true,' " Mr. Zinsser said.
p.s. Most of you will agree in what we are to turn to read instead where you will find...
Real people
Real stories
Real promises
and on top of that: the only true God
"Let God be true and every man a liar" (Romans 3:4)
www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/books/02frey.html
If you can't read it all, here are some excerpts...
[on the reason that he lied, Fre says...]
"I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require,"
[...]
Overall, his portrayal in "A Million Little Pieces," is of a person who "I created in my mind to help me cope" with drug addiction and recovery. He said most of the invented material "portrayed me in ways that made me tougher and more daring and more aggressive than in reality I was, or I am."
The events and details were invented, he said, "in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the book," specifically to "detail the fight addicts and alcoholics experience in their minds and in their bodies, and detail why that fight is difficult to win."
[an expert commenting on the impact of the author's admission of fabrications in his memoir...]
"I believe most readers of those statements would think, 'I don't know what I can believe,' and conclude, 'I will look for a book that is more authentic by a writer whose experiences are obviously true,' " Mr. Zinsser said.
p.s. Most of you will agree in what we are to turn to read instead where you will find...
Real people
Real stories
Real promises
and on top of that: the only true God
"Let God be true and every man a liar" (Romans 3:4)