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Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: April 22nd, 2011, 8:03 pm
by lizzie23
Hi guys! :D Just thought it might be interesting to talk about our favorite memoir or biography, to those who are into the genre. Mine is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey :)

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: April 22nd, 2011, 8:06 pm
by mommyhelen
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion :)

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: April 28th, 2011, 7:21 pm
by lizzie23
Oh, I have another one! :D Eat, Pray, Love!!! by Elizabeth Gilbert!!! 8-)

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: May 10th, 2011, 12:02 am
by hirer
My personal favorites are:

The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Bejamin Franklin)
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (James Wallace)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
A Million Little Pieces (Jamses Frey)

And i'm looking forward to this one: iSteve: the Book of Jobs (Walter Isaacaon) coming in 2012. Supposedly the only biography that steve jobs auhtorized :)

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: September 5th, 2011, 3:40 am
by laila_6045
lizzie23 wrote:Hi guys! :D Just thought it might be interesting to talk about our favorite memoir or biography, to those who are into the genre. Mine is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey :)


I'm curious...isn't this the same author being endorsed by Oprah Winfrey a couple of years ago...only to find later on that the author fabricated some details in the book...and Oprah was really upset about this..in fact she had the author back on the show and he really admitted to lying about some stuff in the book during the show. ..the title stand out to me coz i remember having seen that particular episode on Oprah.

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: September 5th, 2011, 10:25 pm
by ehlanadanae
The Diary of Anne Frank

A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave all by Dave Pelzer...the first book made me cry a river; the most heart-wrenching i've ever read

Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, Teacher Man all by Frank McCourt

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: September 6th, 2011, 10:42 am
by lizzie23
laila_6045 wrote:
lizzie23 wrote:Hi guys! :D Just thought it might be interesting to talk about our favorite memoir or biography, to those who are into the genre. Mine is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey :)


I'm curious...isn't this the same author being endorsed by Oprah Winfrey a couple of years ago...only to find later on that the author fabricated some details in the book...and Oprah was really upset about this..in fact she had the author back on the show and he really admitted to lying about some stuff in the book during the show. ..the title stand out to me coz i remember having seen that particular episode on Oprah.


Hi Laila, oh em gee, really? I didn't know that! :o And I thought it was a really inspiring true story! :?

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: September 6th, 2011, 11:41 am
by laila_6045
lizzie23 wrote:
laila_6045 wrote:
lizzie23 wrote:Hi guys! :D Just thought it might be interesting to talk about our favorite memoir or biography, to those who are into the genre. Mine is A Million Little Pieces by James Frey :)


I'm curious...isn't this the same author being endorsed by Oprah Winfrey a couple of years ago...only to find later on that the author fabricated some details in the book...and Oprah was really upset about this..in fact she had the author back on the show and he really admitted to lying about some stuff in the book during the show. ..the title stand out to me coz i remember having seen that particular episode on Oprah.


Hi Laila, oh em gee, really? I didn't know that! :o And I thought it was a really inspiring true story! :?


I hate to burst your bubble like that Lizzie...i looked it up just to be sure and sadly i was right :cry: ...still i think it would have been a very inspiring story like you said if it was introduced instead as a fictionalized memoir or something...as oppose to being based on real hard facts.

Re: Your favorite memoir or biography

PostPosted: July 8th, 2012, 6:40 pm
by paeng
Michael Shelden's Graham Greene