Product Description

"A Million Little Lies" tells the story of Jimmy Fraud, a wealthy young man who is given every opportunity to Make Something of His Life, but who only manages to drink and dance himself into Sleepy Hollow, the famous (if discreet) rehab facility in Upstate New York. Jimmy meets all sorts of fascinating characters at Sleepy Hollow, one more unbelievable and amazing than the next, and after many challenges he is accepted into the facility's best and coolest clique. In the course of his often harrowing adventure, which involves a great deal of pain, much posturing, and all sorts of adolescent fantasies about what it really means To Be A Man, Jimmy falls in love with a woman he knows his parents will never approve it. The love affair ends tragically, of course, and, like many other parts of Jimmy's story, stretches credulity to the breaking point, but the experience, which involves dirty sex, heinous betrayal, and lots of crying, eventually leads to Redemption and Healing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #773825 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

New York Daily News, February 28, 2006
Gossip section, page 24, "A Parody Frey Might Find Memorable"

About the Author
At the age of 23, James Pinocchio wakes up in the back of a New York taxi with a combination lock piercing his left ear and no idea how it got there, or what the combination is. The following day, his wealthy parents decide they've had enough, and they send him off to Sleepy Hollow, the famous rehab facility in Upstate New York. While there, Mr. Pinocchio meets all sorts of Fascinating Characters, one more Unbelievable and Amazing than the next, and falls in love with a trashy woman who ultimately betrays him. The love affair ends tragically, of course, and, like many parts of Mr. Pinocchio's story, stretches credibility to the breaking point, but the experience-which involves a great deal of pain, some dirty sex, and endless amounts of girlish crying-eventually leads to Redemption and Healing. But not for him.

Customer Reviews

999,998 too many
As an extended riff on James Frey's book, 'A Million Little Pieces', this is actually not poorly done. At lots of little turns in the plot, there are direct parallels to the hero of Frey's book.

First, some background, for those not in the know. James Frey wrote a book, 'A Million Little Pieces', that was presented as a tough-to-read memoir of his own experiences. It was an Oprah selection. It had wide acclaim. Unfortunately, the longer the book was in the spotlight, the more its credibility was called into question, until Frey finally admitted it was not the all-the-truth-all-the-time narrative he'd originally presented it as being.

It has since become the object of jokes and derision. This book by Pinocchio (a pen name for Pablo Fenjves) is one of these efforts. Pinocchio wakes in pain not remembering how he got where he was, and goes through mock-parallels of the harrowing events Frey describes (drug addiction is subtituted by addiction to a more frivolous living, etc.).

In the end, it is really a bit too much. While Frey's book had at least the virtue of trying to deal with difficult subjects in a serious way (albeit with an ultimately fatal flaw in the execution), I am lost of the point on Pinocchio's book. Like the children's story of Pinocchio, which could be told in a much shorter page length, a parody of Frey's book could also be more effective as a cautionary tale if presented in a different way.

Dull and immature
Please do not waste your time with this book. Thankfully did not buy this book personally. Have read the origional book by James Frey (A Million Little Pieces) which I found outstanding but this is just a want to be writer/critic being petty and childish. Even if James Frey has admitted his memoir was partly fiction, I would still find it a must read book if it had been all fiction. His book left me thinking for long times after I would put it down, what those experiences would be like and how I would of coped. This, well just basic tripe.