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My Friend Leonard - James Frey

Description: ISBN 0719561159 / Author: James Frey / Genre: Biography / An extraordinary friendship formed in the most unlikely of circumstances. When James Frey first meets Leonard in the rehabilitation centre where they are both recovering drug addicts. Despite their highly unreliable ... more

My Friend Leonard - James Frey ... track records their shared grit and humour sparks a mutual admiration which transforms into loyalty.

Newest Review: ... writing style here remains the same as in “A Million Little Pieces”. There are very few paragraph breaks and although the ... more

... sentences are mostly properly formed, there is little in the way of other punctuation and no speech marks at all. Whilst this makes following conversations a little hard to start with, you do get used to it fairly quickly and it’s actually easier to handle second time around and you know what to expect. Even so, there were a few passages I had to read more than once to totally follow the thread of a discussion, mostly the ones where there were more than two people talking. Once you’ve got the hang of the wri...more

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My Friend Leonard - James Frey: Friends Will Be Friends (1300 words)
by IainWear - written on 14/12/05 (Very useful, 1403 readings)
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James Frey’s debut “A Million Little Pieces” was a simply amazing journey through his addiction and recovery. It was written in an almost stream of consciousness style with very few paragraph breaks, no speech marks and was as difficult to follow as it was to deal with the subject matter. But for those who persevere, it’s a wild and enjoyable ride. “My Friend Leonard” is a continuation of the same story. Now out of rehab, James is in jail waiting for his release so he can move to Chicago to be with his girlfriend Lilly, who was one of many people he met in rehab. After Lilly struggles with the death of her sick grandmother, the only person she believes ...

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