"One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel..." Bright Shiny Morning , and the blurb instantly adds a new lie to the career of America's most truth-afraid writer. The lie, of course, is that this isn't Frey's first novel. After all, his "celebrated" memoir A Million Little Pieces was reportedly first written as a novel. But depending on whom you believe, either Frey or his publisher retooled the story of his supposed descent through alcoholic and drug abuse hell into a memoir. Only after selling millions of copies and being selected by Oprah Winfrey's book club was the memoir discovered to be a piece of crapola deposited by a lying sack of the same. Bright Shiny Morning . Los Angeles Times said "Bright Shiny Morning is a terrible book. One of the worst I've ever read." Deirdre Donahue in USA Today said the "messy" novel reveals "a massive literary ego in full, flourishing bloom" as the book spouts "bad prose, predictable plot turns, and one-dimensional characters." And even those reviewers who liked the novel probably did more harm than good, such as when Janet Maslin wrote her New York Times "love letter" of a review in the style of Frey's novel. Doing so thrust her into literary history by becoming the first reviewer whose praise for a novel actually made no one want to read the book. Bright Shiny Morning , I wondered what tack to take. And that's when it hit me: No one had written a liar's review of Frey's new novel. After all, if Frey and his publisher can lie about this being his first novel, why can't I lie about having read the book? Bright Shiny Morning :
* People from Los Angeles are going to love his portrayal of their city. After all, this book captures the true essence of LA as a place where both the rich and poor screw their brains out before murdering each other in a bloodbath. Bright Shiny Morning . I can't wait to actually dive into this book. To feel myself transported to a magical realm where fiction is truth and truth is fiction.
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