James Frey's latest book, A Bright Shiny Morning, gets rave reviews and so does James Frey

I got a great response from yesterday's posting about James Frey's new book, Bright Shiny Morning. The author of A Million Little Pieces, has been on tour to redeem himself.

Sara Nelson of the Minneapolis Star gave it a good review. Here's how she ended her review of the book.

Yet the guy has something: an energy, a drive, a relentlessness, maybe, that can pull readers along, past the voice, past the stock characters, past the clichés. "Bright Shiny Morning" is a train wreck of a novel, but it's un-put-downable, a real page-turner -- in what may come to be known as the Frey tradition.

And then there was an interview on the Today Show and here is how MSNBC saw it.

James Frey’s third book, “Bright Shiny Morning,” like his first two books, is a work of fiction. Unlike those first two, he’s admitting he made this one up.

He says so on the first page, with one line of type taking up the entire page: “Nothing in this book should be considered accurate or reliable.”

“It was sort of an acknowledgment of the past, and it was also a way to be really clear — this is fiction. Don’t take anything in it literally or too seriously,” Frey told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Tuesday in New York. “I hope you read it and enjoy it.”

And then the Washington Post.

But "Bright Shiny Morning" reads quickly, has great dialogue and some expertly paced dramatic moments, teaches you more about L.A. than you ever knew, and makes the case (posited by an artist near the end) that Los Angeles is the new New York, on its way to becoming the cultural capital of the world. Or it could all be a stinging satire of the most violent, corrupt, polluted, pretentious, money-mad place in America. Works either way.

He also granted the USA Today an interview. I urge you to read this interview. It is a great story about overcoming obstacles. Reading on Walden Bookstore.