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Drugs in Literature.

I picked up Speed by William Burroughs Jr.

I can hardly put the thing down. It's so damn entertaining.

William Burroughs Jr. describes his period of injecting methedrine, and various perscription uppers of the day in the early 60s. Basicly runs around 40+ years ago doing the same things the tweeker of today does...

here's a short part I found funny... takes place after he's been up for a week or so with his friend.

"Quick then, I begged to Chad that we were a couple of lunatics and if that cop came back and asked either one of us the simplest question, we'd try to cover it up and wind up in Bellvue. That, thank God, sank in and we went inside, me getting a better grip on myself, and Chad staring around at things I couldn't see. We made slow time up the stairs for fear of ambushes at every landing, and the seventh flight was more hollow than the rest, giving out with a booming noise that was good for another ten minutes of panic and confusion."
 
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I read it its ok, did you get the one with the dual novels in one book. I find his writing style emulates Senior Burroughs in a great degree.

Good read none-the-less if your into that drug-a-log type of writing, which I love. If you havent seen my list on good heroin books and are interested in some great heroin books check out this link, sorry its not updated as there are quite a few new ones I need to add, plus the format is a bit tight and jumbled I need to fix it to make it a bit more clear.

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I read it its ok, did you get the one with the dual novels in one book. I find his writing style emulates Senior Burroughs in a great degree.

Good read none-the-less if your into that drug-a-log type of writing, which I love. If you havent seen my list on good heroin books and are interested in some great heroin books check out this link, sorry its not updated as there are quite a few new ones I need to add, plus the format is a bit tight and jumbled I need to fix it to make it a bit more clear.

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actually yes... I got the one that is dual novels. Speed and Kentucky Ham.

Heroin books are great too. I've read junky, and Naked Lunch (though not really a heroin book) as well as other books containing heroin use. I haven't come across many on speed though. Meth specifically. I always find users tales of their mania and paranoia to be extremely interesting. I think Warhol published a book called A ? About amphetamines. Based on one of the speed freaks he had living in the factory... some chick. I forget but I've never come across the book anywhere.
 
True Hallucinations - Terrence McKenna
A Long Strange Trip - Dennis McNally
Carlos Castenada's stuff... even if he is a liar.
 
My favourite drug Novel is The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley, especially Ch.5.

I think it is highly underrated and frequently overlooked.
 
A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
One of the best books about addiction I’ve ever read

Permanente Midnight – Jerry Stahl
Script writer for shows like Alf, Thritysomething, etc. hooked on heroin

Junky – William Burroughs
I like this one better than Speed
 
I like Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser (sp?) - essentially he talks about prohibition in the US and how it came to be and how it has been enforced - brilliantly researched and chillingly scary in parts as to how long people have gone to goal for the tiniest offences.
 
Dr Hunter S. Thompson for me. Everyone has read Fear and Loathing ( I think it should be on the school syllabus) but his other stuff is fantastic. The Great Shark Hunt is wickedly insane especially the article by the same name, his autobiography Kingdom of Fear is probably the most insane book of his I have read, definitely worth checking out and the chapter "Fear and Loathing in Elko" is his most savage tale I have so far encountered.

"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is so far my favourite book about the Acid Wave. The Merry Pranksters, led by Ken Kesey author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, are hilarious and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty from On The Road by Jack Kerouac) is one of the main characters and he is twice as wild once he gets into Acid and Speed. He Walks around with a sledge hammer painted with Day-Glo and throws it at a cinder block ten metres away obliterating it. Wild man.

Doors Of Perception- Aldous Huxley, haven't read it all but what I have is truly enlightening.

Allen Ginsberg's poetry, Howl is awe inspiring.

William S. Burroughs- The most savage and pungent author I've yet to encounter. He accidentally shot his wife in the face with a bow and arrowtrying to imitate william tell while jacked on heroin.
 
Doors Of Perception- Aldous Huxley, haven't read it all but what I have is truly enlightening.

Allen Ginsberg's poetry, Howl is awe inspiring.
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Hell yes! Anything Ginsberg or Huxley have written. I almost have Howl memorized.

I especially enjoyed Ginsberg's "Deliberate Prose; Selected Essays". There is only one chapter on drugs, but the whole thing was very enlightening.
 
Bukowski. I don't think he get's enough credit. He wrote tons of interesting novels about/on drinking and crafted beautiful poetry. The man was perpetually on booze and nicotine... not the most popular drugs I guess.

Then again like most drug fueled writers he was a liar. You have to take all his real life experiences with a huge grain of salt.

Ken keesy is also pretty damn awesome. "One flew over..." and "sometimes a great notion" are so damn good, really get's you into the mindset of LSD culture sprinkled with light speed use.
 
eltoro said:
Dr Hunter S. Thompson for me. Everyone has read Fear and Loathing ( I think it should be on the school syllabus) but his other stuff is fantastic. The Great Shark Hunt is wickedly insane especially the article by the same name, his autobiography Kingdom of Fear is probably the most insane book of his I have read, definitely worth checking out and the chapter "Fear and Loathing in Elko" is his most savage tale I have so far encountered.
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So far I have only read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and songs of the doomed. Which book by HST do you recommend I read next? I'm looking for something that has lots of drug use in it. Should I read the great shark hunt?
 
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A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
One of the best books about addiction I’ve ever read

Junky – William Burroughs
I like this one better than Speed
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A million little pieces is the best book ive ever read, and the book Smack by Melvin Burgess is intriguing about Heroin
 
^^^^^ James Frey has a new one coming called "My Friend Lenoard" whom I'm sure you remeber from Pieces
 
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