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Drug based literature/books

^ It was obviously written by someone who's never done acid, and hates drug users. It's one of those books that parents tell their kids to read to scare them straight.
 
some books by jack kerouac contain drug stuff, great to read but his writing is rambly...great if youre tweaking

i also love trip reports on erowid, especially the well written ones that are recomended with the stars
 
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Originally posted by DrUgMeSaNe
best books (drug related of course)
SMACK- MELVIN BURgeSS
GO ASK ALICE- ANONYMOUS
PURE SUNSHINE- cant think of author...about acid
JAY'S JOURNAL (not really drug related..but makes u think)
REEFER MADNESS
BEAUTY QUEEN
and of course FEAR AND LOATHING
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DJAcetone said:
Pretty much all of those books, sans "Fear and Loathing", are anti-drug.


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ok...ill agree go ask alice is a antidrug book, in my opinion tho- it was a good story, it doesnt have to be realistic or even pro-drug to be a good book
all the other books, are not antidrug, like you say
reefer madness- is entirely pro-marijuana, is factually based and is a great read
smack, by melvin burgess- is one of my favorite books, and yes, it does portray the problems in life of being a heroin addict, however, i would not consider it anti-drug propaganda
Pure sunshine, by Brian James- does not even contain anything negative about using LSD, it is entirely pro-acid, the book is about a guy who trips on acid and has a good time.
beauty queen, by linda glovach- is a good portrayal about a life of addiction. maybe writing about addicition is anti-drug? i think its just about the drug culture and the possible negative effects of using drugs.

im guessing you havent read all these books, otherwise, you might have not stated that most are anti-drug propaganda.
 
s0nic said:
^ It was obviously written by someone who's never done acid, and hates drug users. It's one of those books that parents tell their kids to read to scare them straight.
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Just to clear things up- i have done acid, and i certaintly do not hate drug users, most of my friends are drug users;and so am i. Just because i like a book, doesnt mean that i agree with whats being said...i thought go ask alice was interesting- i disagree with most of what happens, because much is far from realistic, however,i thought it was a good book. you dont even no me, so dont make assumptions about my drug use and my personal opinions based on solely a book i enjoy
 
^ I didn't make any assumptions about you. I was talking about the author of the book, not you. Looking back at everything I typed, it seems clear that this is the case. So you get no apologies.
 
s0nic said:
^ I didn't make any assumptions about you. I was talking about the author of the book, not you. Looking back at everything I typed, it seems clear that this is the case. So you get no apologies.
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i dint read ur post clearly, i thought u meant the writer of the post, not the author of the book---sorry for bitching!
 
Kerouac¨s works are highly recommendable: Even though they are not detailed descriptions of the speed lifestyle itself, they were all written on speed (what someone called "rambling" is actually a literary style called stream of consciousness, somewhat similar to the cut-up technique more or less invented by Burroughs). "On the road" is required reading for /everyone/. With his somewhat bittersweet romantic style he is widely recognized as one of our times' most influencial writers. He was the one who actually coined the word "beat" (that later became a fad covering all writers associated with Kerouac: W. Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc). Many of the writers mentioned in this post owe a lot to Kerouac (for example, he was the one who encouraged Bourroughs to write "Junky", and he came up with the tiltle for "Naked Lunch")
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I hated go ask alice, but I have Naked Lunch by William Burroughs Jr., fucked up but hilaaaaaaaarious. I'd want to read Speed.
 
I would love to read Speed too, but it is virtually impossible to get a hold of here in Denmark. I'll bet it's out of print anyway. (it is here in DK, anyway)

And by the way, it was SENIOR who wrote Naked Lunch...Unless HIS dad was also named William. As far as I know, Will seniors dad was the guy who invented the "modern" typewriter and made a fortune - WB's junkie lifestyle was supported by a fund set up by his parents paying out monthly rates. "Typewriters enabled my addictive life style!" Call up Springer.
 
Another good speed story is written by the man who wrote "L,A, Confidential", James Ellroy. Back in the happy 60s, you could pull out some kind of cloth inside vic inhalers, and they would be absolutely loaded with Benzedrine, a trademark name for phets. He lived addicted and homeless for years and years until he was so fucked up that he had to be admitted. A very powerful story depicted in his autobiographical book "The Black Dahlia", which is currently also being made into a motion picture. This guy is /weird/: but damn, he can write. Worth the read, if you really want to know a true speed horror story.
 
About to go for a trip...

... to the Library!

I need some good drug literature.

I'm pretty sure i'm going to pick up "The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell" by Aldous Huxley, as it was recomended to me by a friend of mine, but i'm also stressing to remember the name of a book that my English teacher had told me to read.

I remember it was something about halucigenic drugs, and how there is evidence showing that the structure of DNA was discovered not recently, but ages ago do to drugs. I believe they had found cave paintings, or perhaps just paintings dating from long ago that showed images of dna strands. I, can't remember what she said the name of the book was, and it sounded soo interesting.

I'm also looking for a third book, which im totally open to suggestion for.

So, suggest away, and thanks.
 
flashbacks is a good one. i dont reccomend anything by mckinna or however you spell it, hes very pro-drug bias (unless your just looking for something to read that is)
 
Burroughs "JUNKY" .....

i havent read the entire book but have read enuff to where i can easily see that although he tells it like it happened, this book is ANTi-drug is anything imo...i just remember reading posts on here claiming this guy is pro-opiod afer reading this book..i disagree...quote below sums it up for me..

"junk takes everything but gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness"

just curious as why people think he glorified it...
 
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