After reading "A Thousand Pieces" the American James Frey (USA, 1969) , I can not but think Alberto Fuguet (Chile, 1964) , who says that this amazing book that thanks are personally suspiciously again the way how you write, how to survive and why it survives (and writes). Or in the opportunist pen Álvaro Bisam (Chile, 1975) -also says in the back of the English version of Aguilar, who got a 2 thousand dollars in a supermarket OFERTON elephant-named publicist who spews phrases film, which may well accompany the cover of "Hostel", Tarantino's film about torture. Or in Bret Easton Ellis, author of "American Psycho", who appeals the generosity and honesty of the book, able to let the most skeptical, with tears in his eyes. And indeed so. autobiographical novel exceeds 400 pages, EMP talks, without moralizing or self-pity, but not in a clownish (and here the fun of Bukowski cynicism does not count) , the issue of addiction and its complex deformities. James Frey, a native of Cleveland who hates people (very Hollywood cliché) and son of wealthy parents and travelers (paradigm of many drug addicts), is 23 and arrives at a prestigious center for addictions, run by former addicts, where only 14% of inmates recovering forever (the highest in the world cup) and is determined by the 12 points of Alcoholics Anonymous, to which the personal spiritual and atheist protagonist (which includes the I-Ching and a superhuman will) rebels.
The Centre, which includes psychologists, psychiatrists, lectures, tests, nature, tasks and plenty of food, James poses for a host of challenges: to reconstruct the inaccessible abyss of anger ( of which do not escape overprotective parents and presumptuously perfect), meet a girl in secret (issue banned in the center), facing the blackmail of a pair of studs, restore its organ damage (including without anesthesia ordeals should be changed some teeth and learn to eat without vomiting) and, above all, get rid of the demon of poliadicción including alcohol, pills, crack, glue, gasoline and other searches.
The challenge is titanic, and James tries with the help of his friends (a hired murderer, a judge in rehab, a former boxing champion finish, a steel worker, a person sentenced to life imprisonment, among others), the fragile Lilly (who is love), the psychologist Joanne (who becomes his protector) and parents (who attend the Family Program and react scared). Each page biography is intertwined with fragments of both the protagonist and those involved in the challenge to restore dignity, honor and health, human losses in the act of looking artificial paradises, often treacherous.
Fast-paced and sometimes creepy self-help anti-novel, EMP is one of those single-issue works but never repetitious archimanidas but never exhausting, to be read without interruption and that seem genuine epochal summit because in addition to a unique style (excluding the score accelerated all the scripts in the dialogues and many of the comma), a perfect fit and a fierce honesty, unlike self-help novels, it can help.
The challenge is titanic, and James tries with the help of his friends (a hired murderer, a judge in rehab, a former boxing champion finish, a steel worker, a person sentenced to life imprisonment, among others), the fragile Lilly (who is love), the psychologist Joanne (who becomes his protector) and parents (who attend the Family Program and react scared). Each page biography is intertwined with fragments of both the protagonist and those involved in the challenge to restore dignity, honor and health, human losses in the act of looking artificial paradises, often treacherous.
Fast-paced and sometimes creepy self-help anti-novel, EMP is one of those single-issue works but never repetitious archimanidas but never exhausting, to be read without interruption and that seem genuine epochal summit because in addition to a unique style (excluding the score accelerated all the scripts in the dialogues and many of the comma), a perfect fit and a fierce honesty, unlike self-help novels, it can help.
It anecdotal this novel-like memoir that was published after the publishers reject it as a novel, was described as fake, by some journalists who tested the exaggeration and inaccuracy of some facts. And it is anecdotal, because as memoir, literary force has 20 novels, and as a work of fiction is the truth and honesty than 20 books of memoirs. Exaltation "hero forced James Frey? Perhaps, but that's part of the game of literature, which can perfectly correct life.
EVERY MAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO ALL THE IDEAS, AND UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE ARISING BE 
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