Finished

A MILLION LITTLE PIECES - James Frey (430 pgs, paper back)

Just like reading THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, it takes a few pages to get used to the writing style, but from then on the perspective shifts and suddenly it becomes something that's horrifying, stark, but also almost lyrical and kind of -- the irony of using this word to describe a book about an addict is not lost on me -- psychedelic.

I like it in the sense that I'd liked I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN: it's a different life, so different that normally I wouldn't have been able to grasp the enormity of it, but the book itself charted it out for you. There's emotional investment there -- the story is, in a way, heartbreaking, and I kept telling myself that I'd put it down after just ONE more chapter and end up with three more, annoyed at myself because now I'm behind my day's schedule for other things.

I got a lot out of this book. It's going on my re-read list.

The cover proclaims it to be from the Book Oprah's Club (that's the order it's printed), just like WHITE OLEANDERS. I like this one better than WHITE OLEANDERS.