(3) Base Camp
At a glance, A Million Little Pieces looks like an epic e.e. cummings poem:
no quotation marks, no paragraph breaks
Parts
That
Look
Like
This.
But upon closer inspection, James Frey uses a very simple writing style. Short words. Short sentences. Short words. Short sentences. Repetition. Repetition. Repetition.
So although the book itself can be as easy to read as a Little Golden Book about heroin ("See James. See drugs. See James do drugs"), the experience itself can be a little tiresome. But maybe that's how addiction is, too: Short thoughts. Creating a feeling. Of immediacy. Short thoughts. Just wanting. Wanting. Wanting. Something. Over and over and over and over.
Until.
You.
Break.
The.
Cycle.