[thetribe]

I know what you mean KH.

Looking at it from the point of view that he marketed it as a memoir, did interviews and promotions, and said that the events depicted were truthful then it does bother me. I understand why he would add the fluff that he did to the book but he should have wrote it as fiction and informed the public that some of the happenings were true. That would have saved the controversy that it is now created.

I would have read the book anyway and he would not have his ass on the line now. His reputation is being ruined because of this. Everyone thinks that he is a liar and that's fair.

I think that lie that really bothers me the most is him saying that he was at fault for his friend's death. Exaggerating arrest was done in order to make himself look like a hardcore criminal, he wanted to feel tough and feared and probably praised for such an amazing recovery but lieing about the role that you played in someone's life does not sit well with me.

Before I even go into that, some names, dates, and locations in the book was changed with no disclaimer. The name one of TWO girls that passed away in the train accident (he didn't tell the truth about hardly ANY of it) was even changed.

Now for my rant about the accident.. Nov. 15th, 1986 that train hit a car driven by DEAN SPERLIK not James Frey. Jane Hall (not even mentioned in the book) and Melissa Sanders (referred to as Michelle) were killed. The movie scenario did not happen. "Michelle's" father never drove James and her to the movies, he wasn't covering for her while she went out on a date..she was heading out with Dean from a party and at the time, Dean was drunk. The train hit the car, killed the two girls, Dean was unharmed. James Frey even manipulated the time that the accident took place. He said that he was 12 and it was 6 months after he had moved there, well the accident took place when he was 17 years old. James was never taken in for questioning, his name never even appeared on any police report or account about it. He had NOTHING to do with it.

Was he trying to make himself look better once again by talking to her in the shower and going on about how he loved her? Maybe he had admired her from afar, perhaps they were even friends. They may have rode the same bus in school but they weren't as close as he lets on and he had zero involvement in the accident.