A Million Little Pieces and The Smoking Gun

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I haven't read James Frey's book, "A Million Little Pieces," and I probably won't read it. Rest assured, however, my short piece about the book is not an opinion and is mainly for your information.

The book appears to be a runaway hit. But there's more trouble brewing than in the book's stories. It appears the folks over at The Smoking Gun have made the book and its author a major project, and as such, have devoted much research and space on their Web site reporting the results of their probe.

NEWSLINE
Police reports, court records, interviews with law enforcement personnel, and other sources have put the lie to many key sections of Frey's book.

NEWSBYTE
A Million Little Lies: The man who conned Oprah
"Book Club" author's best-selling nonfiction memoir filled with fabrications, falsehoods, other fakery, TSG probe finds.
(TSG) -- JANUARY 8--Oprah Winfrey's been had.

Three months ago, in what the talk show host termed a "radical departure," Winfrey announced that "A Million Little Pieces," author James Frey's nonfiction memoir of his vomit-caked years as an alcoholic, drug addict, and criminal, was her latest selection for the world's most powerful book club. Read full story.

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A Million Little Pieces (Oprah's Book Club)

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