Comments on: Oprah Winfrey Book Club defrauded by author http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/09/oprah-winfrey-book-club-defrauded-by-author/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: BD http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/09/oprah-winfrey-book-club-defrauded-by-author/#comment-6679 BD Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:28:48 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2114#comment-6679 Wanderings of a Post Modern Pilgrim has an excellent post up on addiction. Well worth the read. http://pmpilgrim.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-demons-story-of-james-frey-and.html Wanderings of a Post Modern Pilgrim has an excellent post up on addiction. Well worth the read.
http://pmpilgrim.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-demons-story-of-james-frey-and.html

]]> By: Kelly S. S. http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/09/oprah-winfrey-book-club-defrauded-by-author/#comment-6677 Kelly S. S. Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:10:39 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2114#comment-6677 I agree with the 1st. person; That OPRAH Dear gives more of a CRAP for her damn Image than THAT of an Very Lonely, Screwed Up Guy. Who by the way seem's like he WAS REACHING OUT to other's who ARE or Were or Relatives, Friends Of One's who have Passed on BECAUSE of Drug Addiction. I HOPE, I PRAY his BOOK HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE!!! No matter HOW FALSE the BOOK is. I PRAY FOLKS WILL READ IT, AND LISTEN, AND TRY... TRY TO GET HELP With THEIR ADDICTIONS. Is ANYONE SURE all the memoirs out there in this nation are 100% TRUE?? SERIOUSLY?! The Guy Screwed up!! HE MADE A PRETTY BIG MISTAKE!! That he obvisionly CAN'T SEE. Oprah SHOULD'VE MADE SURE IT WAS ON THE UP AND UP!! NOT HER PUPS' SHE HAS WORKING FOR HER! BUT HER AND HER PUBLISIT, AND OR LAWYER'S. SHE IS MUCH TO BLAME AS THIS FREY GUY IS. Personally I think OPRAH is getting a bit too big for her britches!! Even when she had on That poor CEO of BARRONS? of England!! Good Grief!! Surely TO GOD that wasn't the ONLY STORE CLOSING FOR AN EVENT!! Could She NOT go to Another STORE?! Stores DO NOT STAY OPEN or RE-OPEN For BIG WIGS!! And it is about time too!! And what about when Katrina Ordeal, that by the way is STILL IN RUINS!! She was there with her friend Gale, to make money off of these poor folks 'GRIEF??' To get the Oh so "IMPORTANT RATINGS" for her Show?? My LORD!! "What has HAPPENED TO AMERICA??" "IS IT ALL ABOUT MONEY AND POWER, AND SCREW THE LITTLE PERSON WHO DOES NOT HAVE ALL OF THAT?" I think she has forgotten what it is like to be HUMAN!! Oh, and POOR. And I don't understand what the BIG DEAL is about Frey's Girl Friend? Lilly? HOW she KILLED HERSELF?? So he said she 'HUNG' HERSELF, BUT she REALLY SLIT HER WRIST!! Why he changed it? is all up to his way of thinking.... The poor girl is DEAD!! WHY WOULD SOMEONE CARE HOW SHE DID IT?? I THINK IT WAS LESS FRIGHTENING FOR HIM TO WRITE THAT SHE 'HUNG' HERSELF, FOR SLITTING ONE'S WRIST...MAN! IT'S MESSY.....AND GRUESOME....SOMETHING NOBODY CAN GET OUT OF THEIR HEADS FOREVER. Not that HANGING oneself isn't as Horrible. But ALL that BLOOD.... Perhaps he was blocking that part out? Maybe HE'S in a world of his own, after having his OWN GIRL FRIEND OFF HERSELF! How would that make YOU FEEL? And to DEFEND, DEFEND THIS POOR GUY ON THE "LARRY KING SHOW", THEN TURN AROUND BECAUSE OF WHATEVER? AND "SAY HOW EMBARRASSING IT IS FOR MISS OPRAH, THAT THIS MAN LIED TO HER, AND ALL OF US, AND THAT SHE WAS WRONG TO DEFEND HIM," WHAT CHANGED HER MIND? HER IMAGE? DOES SHE NOW GIVE MORE OF A DAMN ABOUT HER FREAKIN' IMAGE THAN THAT OF A GUY WHO WROTE A BOOK, AND STRETCHED THE TRUTH ABOUT A LOT OF IT? Does she NOT CARE that he's Hurting TOO? Or that He's not gotten over his girl friend yet? Or that he has an mental problem? Or that he just wanted to write a book to HELP FOLKS out there? He's an HELL OF AN STORY TELLER! And should continue to write 'STORIES' Not TRUE ONES, Fiction? Non Fiction? I forget which is which? This was his FIRST BOOK! How the heck is he supposed to KNOW THE DIFFERENCE OF an Memoir or just a self help book? Some of it IS about HIS LIFE. AND SOME OF IT ISN'T OR IS STRETCHED BEYOND MEANS. It's a damn BOOK!! Why don't you get all bent out of shape for the People who Write: 'HOW TO COMMIT SUICDE'? Or 'HOW TO KILL SOMEONE"? Or "HOW TO CHANGE ONES APPEARANCE" "How to make Meth"? And WORSE ONES THAN THAT!! Books that get KIDS into CULTS, ETC; WHY THIS BOOK? THAT DOES NO HARM, NO HARM TO ANYONE. SO HE EMBLISHED A LOT OF STUFF, SO DOES THE NATIONAL ENQUIRE, AND THE STAR. He had ALL THESE FREAKIN PEOPLE UP THERE THURSDAY POINTING THEIR FINGER'S AT THIS GUY; FREY, AND HIS POOR PUBLISHER!! MAN! I FELT EMBARRASSEMENT, AND SORRY FOR THE BOTH OF THEM. HOW DARE SHE? SOMEONE OUT THERE SHOULD OPEN A FEW OF OPRAH'S CLOSETS AND SEE WHAT IS REALLY, SERIOUSLY ''TRUE'' ABOUT HER. Kelly S. S. I agree with the 1st. person; That OPRAH Dear gives more of a CRAP for her damn Image than THAT of an Very Lonely, Screwed Up Guy. Who by the way seem’s like he WAS REACHING OUT to other’s who ARE or Were or Relatives, Friends Of One’s who have Passed on BECAUSE of Drug Addiction.
I HOPE, I PRAY his BOOK HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE!!! No matter HOW FALSE the BOOK is. I PRAY FOLKS WILL READ IT, AND LISTEN, AND TRY… TRY TO GET HELP With THEIR ADDICTIONS.

Is ANYONE SURE all the memoirs out there in this nation are 100% TRUE?? SERIOUSLY?!

The Guy Screwed up!! HE MADE A PRETTY BIG MISTAKE!! That he obvisionly CAN’T SEE.
Oprah SHOULD’VE MADE SURE IT WAS ON THE UP AND UP!! NOT HER PUPS’ SHE HAS WORKING FOR HER! BUT HER AND HER PUBLISIT, AND OR LAWYER’S. SHE IS MUCH TO BLAME AS THIS FREY GUY IS.
Personally I think OPRAH is getting a bit too big for her britches!!
Even when she had on That poor CEO of BARRONS? of England!! Good Grief!! Surely TO GOD that wasn’t the ONLY STORE CLOSING FOR AN EVENT!! Could She NOT go to Another STORE?!
Stores DO NOT STAY OPEN or RE-OPEN For BIG WIGS!! And it is about time too!!
And what about when Katrina Ordeal, that by the way is STILL IN RUINS!! She was there with her friend Gale, to make money off of these poor folks ‘GRIEF??’ To get the Oh so “IMPORTANT RATINGS” for her Show?? My LORD!! “What has HAPPENED TO AMERICA??” “IS IT ALL ABOUT MONEY AND POWER, AND SCREW THE LITTLE PERSON WHO DOES NOT HAVE ALL OF THAT?”
I think she has forgotten what it is like to be HUMAN!! Oh, and POOR.
And I don’t understand what the BIG DEAL is about Frey’s Girl Friend? Lilly? HOW she KILLED HERSELF?? So he said she ‘HUNG’ HERSELF, BUT she REALLY SLIT HER WRIST!! Why he changed it? is all up to his way of thinking…. The poor girl is DEAD!! WHY WOULD SOMEONE CARE HOW SHE DID IT?? I THINK IT WAS LESS FRIGHTENING FOR HIM TO WRITE THAT SHE ‘HUNG’ HERSELF, FOR SLITTING ONE’S WRIST…MAN! IT’S MESSY…..AND GRUESOME….SOMETHING NOBODY CAN GET OUT OF THEIR HEADS FOREVER. Not that HANGING oneself isn’t as Horrible. But ALL that BLOOD…. Perhaps he was blocking that part out? Maybe HE’S in a world of his own, after having his OWN GIRL FRIEND OFF HERSELF! How would that make YOU FEEL?
And to DEFEND, DEFEND THIS POOR GUY ON THE “LARRY KING SHOW”, THEN TURN AROUND BECAUSE OF WHATEVER? AND
“SAY HOW EMBARRASSING IT IS FOR MISS OPRAH, THAT THIS MAN LIED TO HER, AND ALL OF US, AND THAT SHE WAS WRONG TO DEFEND HIM,” WHAT CHANGED HER MIND? HER IMAGE?
DOES SHE NOW GIVE MORE OF A DAMN ABOUT HER FREAKIN’ IMAGE THAN THAT OF A GUY WHO WROTE A BOOK, AND STRETCHED THE TRUTH ABOUT A LOT OF IT?
Does she NOT CARE that he’s Hurting TOO? Or that He’s not gotten over his girl friend yet? Or that he has an mental problem? Or that he just wanted to write a book to HELP FOLKS out there? He’s an HELL OF AN STORY TELLER! And should continue to write ‘STORIES’ Not TRUE ONES, Fiction? Non Fiction? I forget which is which? This was his FIRST BOOK! How the heck is he supposed to KNOW THE DIFFERENCE OF an Memoir or just a self help book? Some of it IS about HIS LIFE. AND SOME OF IT ISN’T OR IS STRETCHED BEYOND MEANS. It’s a damn BOOK!! Why don’t you get all bent out of shape for the People who Write: ‘HOW TO COMMIT SUICDE’? Or ‘HOW TO KILL SOMEONE”? Or “HOW TO CHANGE ONES APPEARANCE” “How to make Meth”? And WORSE ONES THAN THAT!! Books that get KIDS into CULTS, ETC; WHY THIS BOOK? THAT DOES NO HARM, NO HARM TO ANYONE.
SO HE EMBLISHED A LOT OF STUFF, SO DOES THE NATIONAL ENQUIRE, AND THE STAR.

He had ALL THESE FREAKIN PEOPLE UP THERE THURSDAY POINTING THEIR FINGER’S AT THIS GUY; FREY, AND HIS POOR PUBLISHER!! MAN! I FELT EMBARRASSEMENT, AND SORRY FOR THE BOTH OF THEM. HOW DARE SHE?
SOMEONE OUT THERE SHOULD OPEN A FEW OF OPRAH’S CLOSETS AND SEE WHAT IS REALLY, SERIOUSLY ”TRUE” ABOUT HER.

Kelly S. S.

]]> By: Bene D http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/09/oprah-winfrey-book-club-defrauded-by-author/#comment-6670 Bene D Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:58:49 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2114#comment-6670 I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical.:^) We have two bookstores here, I was in one the other day and didn't see it. Walmart might have it, but I hardly ever go there. New books are a huge luxury on my income. I've bought three in the past two years - Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil and G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer and Wormwood. I lucked out, they were on sale. The library is miles away, and as much as I love reading, I can't have everything I'd like. Given what I wish I could afford to read, Frey won't be one of them. If I stumble on his book in a used book store and I'm feeling economically reckless, yeah, I'll pick it up.:^) I’m not sure if your question is rhetorical.:^)
We have two bookstores here, I was in one the other day and didn’t see it.
Walmart might have it, but I hardly ever go there.

New books are a huge luxury on my income. I’ve bought three in the past two years - Romeo Dallaire’s Shake Hands with the Devil and G.P. Taylor’s Shadowmancer and Wormwood. I lucked out, they were on sale.

The library is miles away, and as much as I love reading, I can’t have everything I’d like. Given what I wish I could afford to read, Frey won’t be one of them. If I stumble on his book in a used book store and I’m feeling economically reckless, yeah, I’ll pick it up.:^)

]]> By: anti-dumb http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2006/01/09/oprah-winfrey-book-club-defrauded-by-author/#comment-6666 anti-dumb Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:56:26 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=2114#comment-6666 Proving Oprah is concerned with her own image more than anything else, destroying a probably mentally ill man (James Frey) on television is not very "Oprah- like". The nature of a book is that it is not reality: text on a page is never "truth". It is one limited angle of truth. Anyone who says otherwise is a naive extremist. One question: Did you like the book or not? Proving Oprah is concerned with her own image more than anything else, destroying a probably mentally ill man (James Frey) on television is not very “Oprah- like”. The nature of a book is that it is not reality: text on a page is never “truth”. It is one limited angle of truth. Anyone who says otherwise is a naive extremist.

One question: Did you like the book or not?

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