I LOVE JAMES FREY. READ THIS BOOK.

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	• Bright Shiny Morning James Frey Harper, 2008 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 115 reviews view larger image
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bright shiny morning

I was very curious about this book (B S M) after his debauchle (sp?) earlier although I liked it very much I was quite disappointed when the truth came out.
His style excells and continues in B S M. I was totally engrossed with the whole LA scene and i cannot tell you how much i enjoyed it. I do think Frey is a very weird dude; however, I've passed it along and recommended it to many people already.

I LOVE JAMES FREY. READ THIS BOOK.

I did not read Million Little Pieces, but after Oprahs ridiculous self-absorbed scene (you lied to me, you lied to me!) I wanted to support James and just had a feeling that he was good.

Wow. I haven't enjoyed a book this much since The Corrections. So if you liked that, and think you might like this, then read it. Also, does anyone see the subtle association of it's character Amberton Parker to Tom Cruise? (The last three letter 'ton' sound like "Tom" and the opposite of parking is cruising. I thought it was so evident - in fact it so mimicked Tom Cruise as a possible way that he lives.

The lives of the other characters - brilliant. Real. So engrossing. The way the chapters are written - very easy to read a section and stop - and pick up again. I love the LA history - you see a perfect storm brewing. I am only about 100 pages in, but had to stop and say that this is AMAZING, and anyone that doesn't like this is wasting resources on this planet and should kill themselves, and I mean that. This is a great book. JAMES FREY IS A BLESSING TO THIS WORLD.

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better than the first?

I can't say whether this trumps 'A Million Little Pieces" (I didn't read it), but Frey's latest is an incredible, complex narrative featuring LA as one of its main, most riveting characters. I love the book's intricacy. Frey introduces the reader to many of the city's residents, some of whom he returns to again and again in riveting fashion. We see LA's evolution, next to the evolution of its transient, hopeful, dreamy residents. The combination of fact and fiction (perhaps Frey's forte?) seems a bit heavy handed at first, but once one considers the broad scope of the book it seems perfect...plus just really interesting. Read this book!

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Good, but not that good.

First off I should say that I actually like James Frey as an author. A fiction author, that is. With Bright Shiny Morning he tells you in the beginning of the book that nothing in it is true, then proceeds to tell you the stories of four characters: Amberton, a movie star who's secretly gay, Esperanza, a young Mexican American woman who works for a dreadful old lady, Joe, a drunk who tries to save a meth-addicted girl, and Dylan and Maddie, a couple that leave their small town to try to start a new life in LA. Interspersed throughout the book are also various vignettes about dozens of different people and lives in LA, as well as facts about the city itself. While the book is ambitious and wide in its scope, the stories themselves are too cliche to be interesting after the first 300 pages. During most of the book I found myself asking "How many times have I seen these kinds of stories in print before?" Toward the end of the book I literally found myself skipping over much of it, as the facts and vignettes had ceased to hold any interest for me. All in all, the book is far too broad and could have been scaled back by about 200 pages. I'd be interested in Frey's future writing projects, but this book just really didn't do it for me. I'll probably sell this one on Ebay.

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