CANDY by luke davies---awesssome

[mariacallas]

i just finished reading luke davies CANDY ---twice . and i still cant get over it...it is a devastating boook ...anybody regardless of addiction will want to shout "YES" after each paragraph,....it is too tooo tooo SOOOO true and so brilliantly expressed. excerpt:
"you lose track of time, you know what i mean? On the odd occasion when we take time to think about it, we are ashamed, perplexed, Nothing it seems has changed...The high point of our life is the moment we plunge the needle. the self perpetuating fuck.Adrift. AT times it seems that i am floating in the beauty of docility. Pulling the needle from my arm, i succumb again and again to the luscious undertow of the infinite spaces betweem atoms. My arm an estuary of light in which all rivers gather. "

My god...does anyone love this as much as im loving it now???

 

[E-girl]

that's incredible. what is the book about? just out of curiosity. perhaps i'll add it to my ever-growing list of books i want to read sometime in the near future.

 

[RareForm]

sounds awesome....

 

[blahblahblah]

Great book, I agree. I liked the part where he does a home-bake with codeine turning it into a injectable golden elixir.

It about heroin addiction in Australia.

Here is an old list of some of my favorite books concerning addiction and opiates. Sorry about not spacing between books ...

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39935&highlight=heroin+books

 

[mariacallas]

Candy (by brilliant aussie writer Luke Davies) is about threesome - the author, Candy his blonde beautiful girlfriend, and the third partner---- Heroin. Let me quote the excerpt of the book : "He met sexy, free spirited Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. They fell in love fast, the days melting warmly into each other.He never planned to give her a habit. But she wanted a taste.And wasnt love, after all, about sharing lives? In the beginning, everything was beautiful.Heady, heroin hazed days, the world open and inviting. But when the money ran out, the craving remained..and the days ceased their luxurious stretch...." That in a nutshell is what Candy is about...its the best book i have read regarding the nightmarish world of addiction...you have to get a copy of this...although if youre a recovering heroin addict as it could be a trigger. This book left me in a daze after finishing it in one sitting...it breaks your heart .