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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
2.0

I'm gonna keep this short and simple.
This book is way too repetitive, lacks basic punctuation and sentence structures suck.
There is an entire page in this book that looks like this

"Cry.
Fight.
Mom.
Dad.
Brother.
Cry.
Fight.
Live.
Torch.
Pipe.
Bottle.
Sick.
Sick.
Sick."

We'll you get the point, it's trying to be, what, poetic? Dramatic even?
No, it's wasting time, it's lazy writing. It's constant repetition of words and sentences.

Do you know how many times I had to read "I am an Alcoholic and a Drug Addict and a Criminal"?
Enough that I don't ever want to lay eyes on that sentence again.

This story was interesting and captivating and it could have been told in 300 pages or less.
A 1/4 of to book is just repetition for the purpose of exaggeration or emphasis and just comes across as annoying.
More often than not I would skim parts that I know have nothing to add to the story.

I'm give it a 2 star because by the time I got to the last 50 pages I already wanted the book to end.