tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post498779309082844872..comments2024-03-10T10:40:12.454-07:00Comments on craven desires: James Freyscurrilous amateur bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575387156203723911noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-21795473217625026632012-02-12T13:33:29.016-08:002012-02-12T13:33:29.016-08:00Very Very Funny! Thanks for that Miss MargoVery Very Funny! Thanks for that Miss MargoRag Dollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12841568265304929502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-13456951724577127732012-01-14T14:28:54.221-08:002012-01-14T14:28:54.221-08:00The Exile.ru and exiled.ru has brutal, genuinely d...The Exile.ru and exiled.ru has brutal, genuinely daring journalism. Sometimes it's offensive (Mark Ames, one of the editors, is, among other things, a galloping sexist). Anyway, I adore John Dolan and have spent many hours reading all his essays. If I could write half as good as he does, I'd be happy. <br><br>Anyway, I love....LOVE...his roasting of Frey. I laugh just thinking about it.Miss Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09738133130130308032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-69238939796137059392012-01-14T12:09:25.079-08:002012-01-14T12:09:25.079-08:00when i Grow Up, i want to be just like john dolan....when i Grow Up, i want to be just like john dolan. ;-)<br><br><a href="http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6948&IBLOCK_ID=35&PAGE=5" rel="nofollow">And so, like a child returning to his nice warm bed, Frey returns to the privileged world which has supported him all through his life. His rehab friends, of course, cannot. After all, they're authentic, and their authenticity means they have to die violent drug-related deaths in order to validate the streety credentials this rich brat has won in the clinic. They must die so he can strut. </a><br><br>oh my, that was freaking awesome. a pulitzer prize Winning book review if there ever was one. thank You miss margo and thank You, john.dawn jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575387156203723911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-45781592628651808122012-01-14T11:52:36.915-08:002012-01-14T11:52:36.915-08:00Miss Margo, I only read the first page so far but ...Miss Margo, I only read the first page so far but man o man what a first page. I added your link. thank you.<br><br><a href="http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6948&IBLOCK_ID=35" rel="nofollow">A Million Little Pieces is the dregs of a degraded genre, the rehab memoir. Rehab stories provide a way for pampered trust-fund brats like Frey to claim victim status. These swine already have money, security and position and now want to corner the market in suffering and scars, the consolation prizes of the truly lost. It's a fitting literary metonymy for the Bush era: the rich have decided to steal it all, even the tears of the losers.</a>dawn jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575387156203723911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-70626462375186056632012-01-14T05:34:15.826-08:002012-01-14T05:34:15.826-08:00MM, That review is fantastic! It makes sense that ...MM, That review is fantastic! <br><br>It makes sense that he try his hand at pit nuttery to make a buck.<br><br>And, I always thought he stole his look from this guy<br><br>http://blogs.ajc.com/best-of-big-a/files/2011/11/Rudolph-Portraits-Clay-Walker-2.jpgsnack sized doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150912262473853541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-4678055911189858542012-01-13T18:29:38.243-08:002012-01-13T18:29:38.243-08:00April, the pleasure is all mine. Just thinking of...April, the pleasure is all mine. Just thinking of that review cracks me up. I like to share it with as many people as possible.Miss Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09738133130130308032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-86855184048041672832012-01-13T17:10:28.030-08:002012-01-13T17:10:28.030-08:00Miss Margo, thank you for the link to the review o...Miss Margo, thank you for the link to the review of Frey's book. WHAT A HOOT!!!!!april 29http://www.blogger.com/profile/01377958791525950902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4325894281523642428.post-89760366307984699102012-01-07T18:12:50.303-08:002012-01-07T18:12:50.303-08:00As a literary genre, the addiction-and-recovery me...As a literary genre, the addiction-and-recovery memoir consists mostly of lurid trash (there are notable exceptions). Even with the bar set very low, Frey's book was abysmally bad. It was both pretentious and incompetent. And, as an former hard drinker myself, I immediately believed most of his story to be implausible. It was so transparently phony, and very very heavy on the canned corn and machismo (beating up 'fags'? Doomed love with a junkie prostitute with a heart of gold?). <br><br>The guy came across as a total douchebag. What boggles my mind is that he lied about his experience to make himself sound like EVEN MORE of a douchebag. Like, he willfully exaggerated his douchebaggery. I don't get it.<br><br>For a HILARIOUS and very, very apt skewering of Frey and his book "A Million Little Pieces," please see John Dolan's review entitled "A Million Little Pieces of Shit" at <br>http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6948&IBLOCK_ID=35Miss Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09738133130130308032noreply@blogger.com