Susan D. reviewed Worth reading despite the dispute over authenticity on 1/18/2009

Helpful Score: 5

This is the book about treatment for drug addiction which became controversial because Oprah picked it for her book club and then it was later revealed that the author had misrepresented that he experienced everything as written in the book. This is a shame because it is a very well written book--the author's power of description is very good. He should have just said that it was a work of fiction based loosely on his own experience with drug addition and treatment and there wouldn't have been a controversy. His mistake, I believe, was in representing it as autobiographical.

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