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| Bright Shiny Morning | 
 enlarge | Author: James Frey
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 3914
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0061573132
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061573132
ASIN: 0061573132
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wow! May 15, 2008
12 out of 93 found this review helpful
You people are still buying this guy's books after he's most absolutely cheated you once? Ha. Go Frey! Make that dollar.
Hard to forgive;has he asked? May 14, 2008
10 out of 103 found this review helpful
As a person who's been through the darkness of addiction (I most certainly would be dead by now) and was given a new life by attending tne venable institution Mr. Frey wrote about, rather lied about, in A Million Pieces Little Pieces I would find it hard to read, much less believe anything this man writes. It was a personal and disgusting insult to the thousands of us in a lifelong recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
However, we've also learned everyone deserves a second chance. I got one or I wouldn't be writing this. Recovery is about admitting you have a problem and asking for forgiveness from those you have hurt in the past. Has Mr. Frey done this? Has he publicly appoligised to thousands of us and the institution he demeaned in Million Pieces? Does the Introduction to his new book have such a statement?
If Mr. Frey can find it in his heart to do the right thing, I may read his book. If not I will pray for him.
GREATFUL TO BE HERE
 Do you love to read? May 14, 2008
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you do, read this book - read anything James Frey writes for that matter. If you are a reader, a lover of words, a lover of stories recanted, read James Frey's work. If twists and curves of the literary word excite you, read James Frey's work. If quirky characters, vivid descriptions that make you feel like you can smell the characters as well as picture them, read James Frey's work.
If it makes you feel better to hate him, or it's beneath you to see the talent that he has decided to share with us, again, then don't. That is your loss.
Thanks James, so glad you are back.
Send a Message: Boycott This Book May 19, 2008
8 out of 67 found this review helpful
Plagiarism is a writer's deadliest sin, the literary equivalent of murder. As I writer myself, I would debase not only my readers, but also myself by stealing someone else's work or lying about a work that claims to be non-fiction. How James Frey got a publishing deal after his "Million Little Pieces" debacle is anyone's guess, but shame on you Harper for printing "Bright Shiny Morning."
Many people argue that Frey's first book helped a lot of people. It doesn't matter. The fact is that Frey broke a sacred covenant between author and reader, something that he can never repair. Like Stephen Glass, and dozens before him, Frey should be consigned to never putting words on paper again.
Send a message to publishers everywhere: boycott James Frey, the trash he writes, and the morally questionable publisher who continues to market his work.
Not a scorned reader... May 19, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Despite feeling duped the first time around by Mr. Frey, I'm not a scorned reader and had a go at "Bright Shiny Morning". I tore through this book just as fast as everyone else did who was able to review it so quickly following it's release, so make no mistake people, we do have a page turner here.
While I recognize the main character as being LA herself, I didn't care about her. I was more interested in the 4 supporting stories. I was so caught in the grips of those stories that I actually found everything else in the book to be a distraction, the facts, the traffic, the gangs, the highways, etc...
Every chapter relating to the 4 main stories end in a mini cliffhanger The irregularity of this book left me eager and impatiently wanting more! There is no rhythm or flow, it seems random and scattered, and kept me moving forward to see if these stories were revisited.
We are introduced to so many different people and situations during the first half of the book I thought the author was suffering from ADD. In my opinion, any single one of the dozens we meet could be an independent stand-alone story that I would a happily indulge in.
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