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I read the book, and loved it.
What bothers me about the Oprah episode (I just finished watching it) is that when he would say that he changed certain details about the people to protect their identities, she would say that that's lying (I'm paraphrasing here) and she didn't like that James put that Lilly hung herself instead of how she actually committed suicide.
Okay, maybe because I'm in grad school for counseling, but jeeze Oprah, does the whole world need to know everything about everyone? James changed facts about the people so no one reading it could go "Hey! That's my aunt/neighbor/grandfather/dogwalker!" He didn't want people to be able to identify the people. And I say, Bravo to him.
The jail part really doesn't bother me. If he "made up" 4% of the book, the other 96% is still absolutely incredible. One of my favorite books of all time. And I agree with his publisher- this is how JAMES remembered it. He was quite screwed up on drugs while he was in rehab- of course he's not going to remember everything perfectly!
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WAR EAGLE!!!
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