Okay, look: I think James Frey is kind of an ass, and it makes me angry that he could take a poorly written novel no publisher wanted to buy, call it a memoir and suddenly not only have a best-seller on his hands but also a book that people – rather inexplicably – called “moving” and “important.”
But suing James Frey for the “lost time” consumers spent reading the book? C’mon, people.
Though, if this is now a possibility, I’d like to sue the following people:
--Captain John Smith and pretty much every other Puritan who ever put pen to paper
--James Fennimore Cooper
--Adam Sandler
--Everyone involved with the film “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”
--People magazine, Us Weekly, et al
--“The War at Home”
1.26.2006
I Want My Time Back
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Well, Mike, these people do have a point. If not for his lies, they never would have subjected themselves to reading. I mean, what the hell? That's time they could have spent watching "50 Most Awesomely Bad Red Carpet Hairdos" on VH1, or searching for free copies of some naked hotel heiress' crappy sex video. Instead, they had to read words, which is bullshit. I feel their pain.
Ayn Rand owes me so much money. And I know that dead bitch has it, too.
I'd also like full reparations from that fucker Baz Luhrman, for that Moulin Rouge bullshit. And I'm gonna need a little more then just the $7.50, Baz, if only for the pain and suffering inflicted by John Leguizamo playing a Dorf on Bohemia.
The Scarlet Letter.
Serious reparations. Seriously.
Does this mean that if a precedent is set, perhaps I could get my tuition back for the two years I was a double major in Business and Government?
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