Talk:A Million Little Pieces

message: It seems to me that this story has some holes big enough to fly a small plane through. First, Frey is ushered onto a plane by a doctor, even though he is unconscious, has a broken nose, hole in cheek, and 4 damaged teeth. Shouldn't he be treated? What is the point of putting him on the plane in his condition? Wouldn't the doctor by liable for this sort of negligence? Second, the airline accepts Frey on the plane, even though he is unconscious, covered with vomit, blood, and urine. Again, why would they accept an unconscious passenger without escort, particularly in this condition? What about the poor passenger that has to sit next to him? Again, what about the liability issues?
:My thoughts exactly.  I read that description on the back of the book long before any of these allegations came out and I thought "What airline is going to allow a guy covered in blood, vomit, and urine with a hole in his cheek on the airplane."
:Hmm. Well, you know what they say about truth and fiction. --Bookandcoffee 21:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  Lots of good skeptical reviews at Amazon.  The crack house part seems unlikely.  The dentist scene was riveting, but I haven't heard any support for the justification that addicts can't have local anesthesia. Rufus Sarsaparilla 20:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of drug users and even medical professionals assume that because cocaine and novacaine (and lidocaine or any of the other *caines for that matter) have the same suffix, that they must be chemically related. This may be the reason why he wasn't allowed to have a local anesthetic. It's pure nonsense of course. It's simply industry convention to give local anesthetics names that end in "caine". But this hasn't stopped people from claiming that they got high off of their shot of novacaine at the dentist ("because the doctor accidentally injected it into a blood vessel").--96.229.239.27 (talk) 16:01, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

text: Now that The Smoking Gun has raised serious concerns over the book's legitimacy, can we please work on changing this article? Dstopping 05:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

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thread_title: Plot holes

message: Did a little poking around, in part because I'm writing a paper that involves this memoir, or fictionalized memoir, or whatever we'd like to call it -- where the heck is there any mention in the cited sources that verify this?
:On 26 January 2006, Frey once again appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admitted that the same "demons" that had made him turn to alcohol and drugs had also driven him to fabricate crucial portions of his "memoir"; it first having been shopped as being a fiction novel but declined by many, including Random House itself. (from the Wikipedia page itself)
I don't see anything supporting this claim... Where did that come from? - S. Komae (talk) 21:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations? 

message: Wouldn't the fact that Frey initially tried to hock the exact same text to a variety of publishers (whom all turned it down) as fiction be mentioned? Yes, it really is that bad. I mean, clearly the history of the book is a history of deception, all the way; from decieving the publishers, to deceiving the buyers, to decieving the critics. I even tried this myself; I gave the book to a friend of mine (who wasn't privy to it being a work of fiction), telling her that it was a real account. When she was halfway through the book, I disclosed the true nature of the book. She didn't even finish it. It really is that bad. The only value the book has is when the reader is decieved to believe it's real. For what it's worth; AMLP is as real as Three Little Piggies, and Frey has as much credibility as H.C. Andersen. --82.181.48.38 19:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixion

message: I do not believe the capitalization of nouns is random; rather, I am pretty sure he capitalizes only people (e.g., "my Sister") and places (e.g., "the Office"), and always capitalizes these types of nouns. It also seems very informal to say that he capitalizes them "for No Apparent Reason." 
71.206.101.147 03:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: "Frey also uses heavy repetition of words throughout the text, which is consistent with his repetitive use of alcohol and drugs as well as his repetitive run-ins with the authorities."
This seems like someone is making excuses for his mediocre writing ability and small vocabulary. 220.235.3.45 14:39, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stylism or lack of talent? 

message: could it be possible to consider this book a Roman à clef??
it worked for Hunter S. Thompson!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gordonjay (talk • contribs) 03:51, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman à clef 

message: Why is it listed as "a controversial memoir" in the lead? To qualify as a memoir, it would have to be true. -96.228.203.46 (talk) 07:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be arguably more accurate/less neutral to describe it as a "purported memoir". I'm tempted to change the lead to this, but want to give anyone who disagrees the opportunity to say whether that seems biased. TheGrappler (talk) 05:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Memoir"

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thread_title:  Dead link 

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thread_title:  Dead link 2 

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