Originally Posted by Kassidy

I read the book before Oprah jumped on it and I thought it was amazing. VERY powerful.

The facts that The Smoking Gun is disputing are about his criminal record, not about his actual addiction or recovery which is the central theme. The criminal aspect is a VERY SMALL portion of the book, even if he did exagerate that part. Really nothing to take away from the powerful message in the book.

It's a little tough to read because he doesn't follow proper grammar, sentence, and paragraph structure but that adds to the 'feel' of his situation. I'm actually reading his other book My Friend Leonard right now and it's almost as good.