Did James Frey seem oddly removed in the first segment of his Oprah reunion show yesterday? (See highlights on The Daily Beast site).

Perhaps we still aren’t seeing the real James Frey. In a recent interview on the site The Big Think, far from calling the 2006 tongue-lashing a “personal car wreck,” as he characterized it to Oprah, he says it changed his life for the better;

The Million Little Pieces controversy really freed me to be as radical as I want, to break every rule I want and to not have to care what other people thought. It was great.

We’ll see which James Frey shows up for the second part of the interview today.

As a result of the show, A Million Little Pieces moved up the Amazon sales rankings to #61, from #3,530.

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