A Million Little Pieces: Edgy author PWNED by plump media baroness

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Having taken pretentious egghead Jonathan Franzen down a notch, Oprah puts her mark on "bad boy" James Frey...

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― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Whether you're talking about A Million Little Pieces in your book club, on our message boards or around the water cooler, these questions will get the discussion flowing! Get the reading questions now.

http://www2.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/mlp/questions/questions_main.jhtml

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

1. A Million Little Pieces presents some unusual formal innovations: Instead of using quotation marks, each piece of dialogue is set off on its own line with only occasional authorial indications of who is speaking; paragraphs are not indented; sentences sometimes run together without punctuation; and many passages read more like poetry than prose. How do these innovations affect the pace of the writing? How do they contribute to the book's rawness and immediacy?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

"innovations" lol

― dan i. (Dan I.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Uh yeah since when does innovation = something that's not in widespread use but has been done hundreds of times before?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

FUCK! i love this book!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

she must be stopped, perhaps we can enlist steadman to our cause.

― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 29 September 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

bah, I wanted to read this too

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

although didn't this come out like two years ago? I mean get current oprah!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Among the side benefits of Oprah "serious lit" choices is that they make "serious lit" fans who were planning to read the book anyway all paranoid that people at the bookstore will think they're Oprah Book Club members. I imagine them buying the book, sandwiched between a Calvino and a volume of William H. Gass criticism, the way a shamefaced porn renter hides Chunky Lovin' #11 between The Return of the King and Rush Hour 2.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

(and some are above all other humans, obviously)

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

5. Consider some of the moments of kindness and compassion and genuine human connection that make the book so moving. Why do these moments have such emotional power?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Life imitates ILM!

Just reviving this thread to gloat. Is there some kind of prize for uncannily predictive thread titles?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.suwanneecountyfair.org/jan05pics/005.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:11 (twenty years ago)

i often found myself totally confused as to who was speaking, FWIW.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

gear: that's EXACTLY what I'm talkin' about.

Just going to bask in it for a while longer...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

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