41/2 almost a 5, I loved this book.

wow im not done with this book but you can feel every emotion that is described. you can feel the pain as well as happyness in the main character's mind...it is so real!!!!! im not even a quarter of the way done yet and I have already laughed, cried and gotten mad. it is an absolutely amazing book so far!

This book didnt have much events take place like in a million little peices but i still enjoyed it it was filled with true emotion and empathy and it makes you feel what its like to have a true friend.Definitely would recommend.

This one was a bit much. Yes it was a good story and there were some relatable moments on the temptations of addiction and recovery from it. But this time around it seemed much more of an attempt to portray a successful life after rehab by building up larger than life characters and situations that didn't register as real. It tried too hard.

For what it was though I did like the story. Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't want to hang out with a guy like Leonard and meet girls like Allison and Brooke? But it was the fact that he turned down money at various points among many other examples. Frey was a little too perfectly fake. The good-guy big ego responses of self determination and strength against temptation didn't seem human enough. Frey got it right with the thought patterns of addiction in A Million Little Pieces but this one didn't have much past the Hollywood story which is done better in other places.

SO SAD LITERALLY SADDEST BOOK EVER SO SAD WHY SO SAD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Yeah

I loved "A Million Little Pieces" and was really nonplussed by the drama that ensued, when it turned out to be not quite a memoir. My feeling was that it was a great book either way. Who cares if he embellished?
So imagine my surprise as I delved into "My Friend Leonard" and found myself unable to shake the feeling that I was being deceived. I couldn't help but wonder, how much of what I was reading was the truth?
Fortunately, the story and characters (particularly the glorious Leonard) were so engaging, I was able to move past my skepticism and let my hair down to a fantastic read.
FYI, I cried like a baby. I challenge you not to do the same!

This is Frey’s follow up to a million little pieces. I thought it less good and less engaging. However, Frey’s writing style does make it easy to just keep reading.

In this book he has been released from rehab and it starts with his jail term. Apparently the time in jail and the people he met are largely fictitious but I get that he was trying to communicate a state of being as much as a situation.

The book then goes on to document his life as he gets his shit together in the real world without the help of drugs and booze. I found myself not really caring like I did when reading a million little pieces. James seems a more distant character in this section of his life story. He also got lucky by having a benefactor such as Leonard, who I do think is a real person. Not many recovering addicts have the luxury of easy jobs and financial help if needed. Perhaps a different addict would have taken advantage of this and slipped back into active addiction. But I wasn’t rooting for him in this book quite as much as previously.

However, I don’t think the book was written primarily to chart James’ improvement but rather as a tribute to his friend Leonard. Leonard sounds like he was a good man, even if a crook. He supported the very fucked up kid that James was when they first met and continued to do so until he could no more. And even then he did actually.

It’s a pity that the tribute to Leonard gets lost in the marvel that is James Frey’s recovery. I felt Leonard deserved better – his own story maybe rather than a tag on to James’.

Still, very readable and worth borrowing from a friend.

I really, really loved this! I don't care one bit that some of the true story was embellished, because it made for a great read. Some people won't get on with the style of writing - sentences are rambling and hardly any use of commas - but I liked it and it felt like you were hearing the story, directly from James. I'm gutted I've finished it and really wish there were more books! I may even have loved it more than the first book...

This is a book that will blow you away with courage and determination!
I just love James Frey’s mind, and his style of writting! He will literally take you with him through his words.
The ending of this book is not expected but all the same brilliant. Honestly After loving A Million Little Pieces I expected to be let down but this book was every bit as good.
to sum it up,
Emotional, Difficult, Hurtful and Beautiful!

Giving this one 2/5 stars not because it was bad, but because it wasn’t anything special. We see his life during rehab in “A Million Little Pieces” so I enjoyed reading about life after that in this one. However, the author admits that a significant portion of his stories are fictional so it can be hard to appreciate the more serious, emotional parts of his life that he highlights in this book.

Yawn...

If ever there was a book that triggered me to pick up a cigarette after having quit so many months ago, it would be this one. From the ashtray on the cover to the chronic smoking that takes place by almost all of the characters, reading My Friend Leonard turned out to be an exercise in will power, if nothing else.

This is the sequel to Frey's first faux memoir, A Million Little Pieces and although I really enjoyed that novel, this one was rather stale and I had to really push myself to get through it. There have been times where I have embraced it, but in this case the stream of consciousness style of writing felt drawn out and boring. I also found his constant repetition of words and sentences to be annoying. I’m sure this was some poetic or artistic impression intended to make me feel his points more emotively, but I think Frey really missed the mark on this.

In my opinion, had he cut the bullshit he could have streamlined the pages to about half, however there wouldn’t be much of a book to read then, since the type face was large and there was a blank page between each chapter. It just felt like he took the cheap way out and wrote another book on the tails of his last success, with no respect for good writing or his readers. It felt like a cash-grab.

What I did get out of it were some realistic depictions of what the journey through early sobriety looks like. The severe sweet tooth, propensity to overeat, excessive walking or exercising, and the extremely overpowering and constant craving to use are very accurate dilemmas for the poor soul just out of rehab. I loved the idea of him carrying around this cheap bottle of wine just in case he felt the urge to drink; a reminder and a test, as it were.

If you dig deep enough you will find a charming relationship between Frey and his friend Leonard, but this seemed ridiculous and hard to believe more often than not. In the end, My Friend Leonard is about love, loyalty, and resilience, with a strong dose of loss.

I know that Frey has since put out Bright Shiny Morning, so I’m really curious to find out if he actually tries with this one...

Purvo misleh 4 no kraq mu se videshe che sha e 5.

Mnogo dobro.
Mnogo dobro.
Mnogo dobro.
Mnogo dobro.
Mnogo dobro.

minimalni neshta koito me podrazniha bqha mnogokratni maniakalni povtoreniq, lipsa na prepinatelni znaci, no inache vsichko beshe mnogo hubavo. V nachaloto revah i na kraq revah. V sredata ne revah. Sredata vurveshe okei.
Samata kniga prekrasna, preporuchitelno.
Kogato stava vipros za durt muj, imam povishen interes 88%