Frey deceives readers
After reading the column by Karen Favreau (Books page, Jan. 22), I agree completely with what the writer was saying. When writers are writing an autobiography, it's not what they want to have happened in their lives, it is what really happened.
Even though only 5 percent of James Frey's book, "A Million Little Pieces," is in question for its truthfulness, this is still too much. Maybe I am just a naive 15-year-old, but when people pick up an autobiography to read, they assume they are reading the whole truth. If they are not, are they really reading an autobiography? Perhaps Frey would have been better suited to write an inspirational, fictional account based on his life instead of a deceitful memoir.
Matthew Poole
Greensboro
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