No I don't need to buy the book, do I?

Um. He's a terrible writer.

Is James Frey's writing really this poorly edited?

Boy, that's exciting fictional writing technique -- a 500-word blurb. I envy Frey that.

I don't get it, why exactly is he writing Perez Hilton's wikipedia page?

@Richard: @TheHonJudgeSmails: Fuck yeah - my grammar ears were popping, and that was me just skimming it the way you toss a stone across a lake of pee.

It's actually so bad it's terrible.

Boring. Just like Perezhilton.com

James, go back to lying. Please.

My vote is for a Perez vs. Frey Celebrity Death Match. My money is on the chubby Cuban - his nails are longer.

I'm sorry about repeating myself - but is this actually for real? Is someone really going to cut down many, many trees in order to print this uber-shit on it?

I feel like self-harming.

@Richard: @VirusWithShoes: This makes me exceedingly mad.

Alexa says perezhilton.com has a traffic rank of 430. I had no idea it had that much reach. ugh.

Well, its official. The Internet must be destroyed.

VirusWithShoes: Don't self-harm! We need your commenting skillz!

C'mom you guys. This isn't funny. Seriously. Please.

This is not a case of a good writer trying to write badly. It's not a case of someone who is just a bad writer. It's the work of someone who has never written at all but has to do a term paper for middle school.

This bit is a Bright Shiny Turd.

@VirusWithShoes: I hate and my friends hate and my family hates everyone I know hates wasting paper.

i've been thinking of dying my hair purple, but then i worry it would clash if i wore red

Christ, what an asshole.

First!!!

What a waste of space. Frey didn't even include the multi-colored hair, shower-cap on the red carpet, and obesity. I want my 2 minutes back.

Somewhere Sam Donaldson is cursing under his breath while trying to get a fax machine to work

OMG too many words.

@Richard: Agreed. I couldn't even finish it due to the poor writing, grammar, punctuation, etc. Is this how writers actually "write" and then editors clean it up for them? Its like a sleepy (or drunk) "stream of consciousness" file dump.

@MsMerlin: Stream of consciousness is harder to do than you may imagine. And no amount of editing will fix that. It would have to be completely rewritten, and THEN you'd just wind up with a well-written term paper or, maybe, Wikipedia entry (often the same thing). I find it hard to believe that someone gets paid to write that. It's not even reporters notes that someone accidently set in type.

Perhaps the flagrant comma splices reflect the fast pace of the character's life and implicate us as sloths who drag down the buoyancy of those living at the speed of blog.

And the name of Frey's next book will be Little, Different, Yellow, Better.

That selection was so bad it just crashed my browser. Twice.

The lack of punctuation in places (plus the non-fictionalizing of "Queen of All Media") makes me think that this is a leak of the 2nd draft or something. But, uh, this is what Harper is giving us?

Die printed word, die!!!

Choice of typeface, rag-right margins, and no paragraph indents suggest this is a manuscript version, not a page from the proofs. So there is a chance that there will be at least a copyeditor between that version and the bound book.

Very cute, though, the way he takes out the u in f-ck. So demure of him.

Lordy, that is one ugly man.

this kind of writing is the prime reason for quitting drugs NOW

is james frey sleeping with perez hilton? no, seriously... is he?

HarperCollins gave him A Million Little Dollars for this. I am sad.

@ladybugshower: Or get better ones.

@Richard:
Thats exactly what I thought?! I thought Frey was supposed to be this amazing writing icon?

I apologize-I'm not American, I get all my info from the net..

The writing is terrible and how is this dude still calling this fiction?

On the other hand, as much as I hate Perez, I have to give it to a man who made much bank off of what 12 year old girls have been doing to each other for years.

Seriously, stop writing about this ewwwwosity. STOP IT.

I love, love, love that when James Frey writes a "novel" it ends up as, um, non fiction; just like when he writes "memoirs" that are pure fiction. Is this why people think that he's so zeitgeisty? Because he defies convention so blatantly? Clever one, that James Frey!

@Richard: I would go so far to say that Frey's grammar is nonexistant more so than just terrible. (I've also always thought that A Million Little Pieces could easily be reduced to a pamphlet by a decent editor. Or a below average editor. Or just by removing all of the "arty" spacing.)

@GollyG: However, Frey's prior work indicates that this is likely the final draft.

and then the writer who was a fake a fraud who was dressed down by Oprah who was savaged by the press who wrote a memoir that wasn't a memoir but pieces, bits, whole pages of fiction decided that he would write something new something that was fiction but was also poorly disguised reality so poor disguised in fact that it was simply a breathy yet boring bio of somebody that everyone already knew about but this writer he felt as though he still had a chance a hope a dream to gain the attention he once had by writing in the most absurdly retarded style that no one no one no one had the stomach to read a full page of his crap....

Jesus, Courtney Love's MySpace posts are more coherent than this tripe!

I wish I were paid to write total crap.

A charlatan and shithouse writer. This book end up in the $2 book bin soon enough.

I find both James Frey and PerezHilton quite easy to ignore. I stopped reading after the first 3 sentences, remembering how much I hated his first book (didn't finish that either). No more pictures of PH please. Gives me the creeps.

Perez Hilton...what can I say? Many of the Cubanos I know are intelligent and well put together men.This one is anything but....This chismosa must be an embarrassment to the Cuban-American community.

I honestly don't get it. He got paid a million dollars for this!? Damn, this is so depressing I don't even know how to respond!

Fuck, why do I even bother trying to write? If I had only known that THIS shit was what editors were looking for I would've saved myself a lot of grief...

he can't even decide if he wants to use punctuation or not. he tries to be gertrude stein for one sentence and hemingway for the next. god i wish he would die.

and paparazzi is PLURAL, fuckface

He obviously still hates commas, but at least he has stopped with the aggressively random Capitalisation of AMLP.