BOOKGASM defines…
Freydar
(fra’där’)
noun
1. an instinct for determining the level of fabrication, enhancement and/or outright falsehoods in a memoir. Ex. “I don’t really believe this author’s claim that he located a horde of zombies under his back porch. He’s tripping my Freydar.”
[...] Another month, another look at search terms that brings surfers to the world that is BOOKGASM. Amidst all the usual suspects (Mimi Rogers, Uschi Digard … do I sense a trend?) we find not one, not two, but eight differently worded searches for James Frey, the recently/rightfully tarred-and-feathered “memorist” whose credibility has broken into (if you’ll forgive the pun) A MILLION LITTLE PIECES. [...]