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Originally Posted by msh58
my mom is actually reading it now, when she's done it'll get passed to me. Think theres a line between fiction and non fiction but not much room for the inbetweeners. Might need another category i guess. Got that feeling with hunter thompsons stuff. Although with him it seemed like the reality probably was even worse than what he did decide to write. lol.
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I was telling a friend about Fry's controversy and she mentioned that to her it didn't seem any different than what Thompson did. But I think it is a lot different. Hunter's writings were certainly about addiction, but it doesn't seem in the same way. With Hunter you have to realize that not everything he writes actually happens. He was writing while actually on drugs or at least from the perspective of someone that was. So what he sees or hears was part of the drugs.
I haven't read Fry's book but it certainly seems that he was trying to at least present an objective view of what other people would have seen. He also seems to have a lot to say about recovery which I don't think Hunter ever really cared about.
So has anyone actually read the book? I tend to stay away from anything having to do with Oprah