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Jan. 29th, 2006 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quidditchgrrlIn defense of James Frey, what's the difference between his book and this one?
Both stories have a fundamental truth to them, but the individual incidents are not. (It was later revealed, after interviews with the Columbine students who were in the library, that Cassie Bernall was not the person who "answered yes".)
So? Is it because James Frey made himself into such a bad-ass, no-fear character? Maybe because he flipped the finger to AA (and amen to that)?
Fake martyrdom is distasteful, either way.
Both stories have a fundamental truth to them, but the individual incidents are not. (It was later revealed, after interviews with the Columbine students who were in the library, that Cassie Bernall was not the person who "answered yes".)
So? Is it because James Frey made himself into such a bad-ass, no-fear character? Maybe because he flipped the finger to AA (and amen to that)?
Fake martyrdom is distasteful, either way.
