Reply #91: I agree, I'm really annoyed with the guy for writing such a redemptive

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novel and inspiring all kinds of people and then having it turn out he is lying about many details. I wish he had sold it as a novel with some resemblence to his own life, then none of this would be happening. While what Frey says about being in an alcoholic haze affecting his memory covers the time before rehab, in rehab he was sober, and he certainly would've remembered whether or not he had root canal without novocaine and whether or not he went to jail for 3 months or 1 day. Those 'exaggerations' are really troubling. I didn't make it clear in my post, I still found the book to be 'emotionally truthful' as Oprah said, the controversy will keep more people from reading it and it has many important thoughts and philosophies about the nature of addiction and life in general. I'll admit, the guy was just lame during his interview, and made himself look twice as guilty of deception of his readers, he even looked somewhat smug when Oprah called in to defend him. I liked him before, after reading the book, not so much now. It's disappointing. I have an alcoholic in my family, the book was especially poignant and illluminating to me so I'm trying not to let that be spoiled. I don't want to trash everything about the book just because the author behaved like a cad, that's all.