Readers filed suit against James Frey [A Million Little Pieces]

Find Law ^ | 2-1-06 | SHERA PAGLINAWAN, ET AL

[OXENinFLA]

SHERA PAGLINAWAN, ET AL., V. JAMES FREY, ET AL. January 30, 2006

Readers of James Frey's book, A Million Little Pieces, have filed suit in federal court in Seattle seeking class action status based on allegations of breach of contract, unjust enrichment, misrepresentation, and violation of the Washington Consumer Protection Act. The suit was filed against Frey and his publisher after Frey disclosed that much of this book, sold as a memoir, was fabricated.

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/oprah/pagfrey13006fac.pdf

Plaintiffs' Lawyer http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2998965_1

[OXENinFLA]

TORT REFORM!!!!

[OXENinFLA]

I just got this in my inbox from findlaw, found it knida funny....

[atomicpossum]

Well, some lawyers will make out like bandits, and some consumers will get coupons for half off a bargain book at Barnes and Noble.

[windcliff]

ping

[OXENinFLA]

and some consumers will get coupons for half off a bargain book at Barnes and Noble.

Exactly

[dead]

They should tear the licenses of these lawyers into a million little pieces.

[edgrimly78]

TORT REFORM!!!!


--Yepper...What a waste on the justice system.

[bikepacker67]

As long as it takes $$$ out of Freys pocket (and I'd name Oprah as a co-defendent) I'm all for it!

[dead]

As long as it takes $$$ out of Freys pocket (and I'd name Oprah as a co-defendent) I'm all for it!

I think money in the hands of a dishonest ex-drunk memoir writer is better than money in the hands of bloodsucking class action lawyer.

[Rakkasan1]

why didn't they just return the book to the seller, who in turn would have to deal with the publisher who apparently
didn't proof read the book or didn't care it was BS.

[BenLurkin]

bump

[Asclepius]

Tort reform indeed. This is so risible it hurts to ponder it. A self-absorbed professional victim embellishes his resume in the form of a novel masquerading as a non-fiction. His readers, connoiseurs of victimhood, feel victimized, and mount a class-action suit to press their claim. This is special interest politics at the level of the personal: MY pain, MY affliction, demands that YOU redress it.

A product of the times I suppose.

[Revolting cat!]

THE DEATH OF IMAGINATION, is what the cat calls it. Everything must be "based on a real story". The Hollywood ghouls gave us film biographies of Ray Charles and Johnny Cash the very years these two died. There was, in my opinion, more truth in the fictional movie Payday with Rip Torn than in either of those two. Frey tried to sell this book as a novel and failed, but as a "true story", hey, how inspiring, how uplifting! The only fiction that sells are silly fantasies like Hairy Potty or Star Trek Wars with a singing Captain Kirk: Luuuuuucyyyyyy!

[pepperdog]

Well, when you put it that way I rather like it. There may be a film come out of this yet, but it'll be a comedy.

[traderrob6]

Yea, exactly what I was thinking

[planetpatrol]

If that lawyer was clever he'd set his sites on Oprah, go where the money is. Maybe she'll give em' all cars.

[swain_forkbeard]

Well, if it's a memoir, and the author simply claims that that's how he remembers it, ...

[dfwgator]

Can they sue Michael Moore also for his alleged documentaries?

[antiRepublicrat]

1.5 As a result of the Defendants’ actions the Plaintiffs have suffered economic damage.

Did you enjoy the book? Good, no damage done, you received the entertainment you paid for. Did you not enjoy it? Then sue the author of every book you didn't like.

[Asclepius]

The only fiction that sells are silly fantasies like Hairy Potty or Star Trek Wars with a singing Captain Kirk: Luuuuuucyyyyyy!

Authors still write fiction. The problem is that they write more fiction than ever, and more fiction gets published now than ever, so much so that reviewers and critics and even the most voracious readers can't keep up with it, so much so that to differentiate yourself from every of author of your class or genre is almost impossible. This is why the non-fiction market offers the only growth opportunties in publishing. The market is glutted like never before in history.

The imagination is not dead. In an age that rejects the notion that art must serve a higher purpose or any purpose at all, imagination is everything: imagination is the victim of its own success.