Is this for real? I'm not a holocaust-denier or something but I feel a bit jaded after being conned by the fake autobiographies A Million Little Pieces by James Frey and You Got Nothing Coming by Jimmy Lerner.
How does he cheat death so many times? Is he a superhero or something?
He's trapped in a burning house and he hasn't eaten for days. He tries to off himself with a handful of sleeping pills. He wakes up later and is fine despite the fact the room is full of smoke and the door handle is too hot to touch. Really?
>>5249 I still think that James Frey book is good. Similarly I still enjoy JT Leroy's work after the author was exposed as not being what s/he pretended to be.
Haven't read The Pianist but remember enjoying the film. There are quite a few Holocaust memoirs that stretch the facts like any other autobiography would: there are one or two that are in fact shameful fake memoirs of the Holocaust. No doubt that among the 'painful lives' section there are also books by people who were never abused as children, but the Holocaust still happened, just as child abuse does.
I don't blame James Frey and Jimmy Lerner. I think they both approached publishers and said
>Here's a novel which is loosely based on my experiences
and the publisher agreed to print it as long as they pretended it was a strict autobiography.
I enjoyed You Got Nothing Coming but I didn't find out about the fabrications until after I finished. I'm not sure if that would have tainted my experience of it.
I googled up James Frey partway through and didn't end up finishing the book.
