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anonymous1419

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Anyone read any good books with a main topic being drugs lately?
Feel free to post books you're in the middle of, recently read, or old favorites.
My personal favorite is Go Ask Alice.
Also tried reading Requiem for a Dream once but found it very had to follow because the dialogue is rather confusing. :\ Needless to say, I prefer the movie.
 
"Scar Tissue", autobiography by Anthony Keidis.

I always knew he did drugs but goddamn, was he ever a junkie.

Great read though, rarely does an autobiography about a rock star have me to where I can't put the book down like this one did. Highly recommended
 
The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

Fear and Loathing in las Vegas

I picked up this book called "White Rabbit: A Psychedelic Reader" This is an awesome book. It is made up of chapters from several different books, including the two I mentioned. It also has the first chapter of alice in wonderland, and tidbits from writers such as william burroughs, Tim Leary, Miles davis ect.
 
More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel is excellent. It's the true story of her addiction to ritalin and coke and her trips to rehab.
 
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Hell's Angels by Hunter Thompson

... Although these aren't really novels, they are non-fiction books.
 
Candy by Luke Davies. One of my most favorite reads. I've read my dog-eared copy several times and subsequent reads affect me as much as it did the first time. Heartbreaking...its the kind of book where after you finish you are like "Damn, that was fucking good."
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"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. "
 
I don't read, but the girlfriend (used to be a pretty heavy IV heroin user) recommends "Candy" and "Smack".
 
chicpoena said:
More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel is excellent. It's the true story of her addiction to ritalin and coke and her trips to rehab.
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Just checked this book out at the library.
After I'm done with this one (maybe by tomorrow if I'm bored enough:p) I'll have to go and get some of the others suggested. Thanks all!
 
anonymous1419 said:
Just checked this book out at the library.
After I'm done with this one (maybe by tomorrow if I'm bored enough:p) I'll have to go and get some of the others suggested. Thanks all!
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Yay! Make sure to post after you finish it. I'm interested in hearing other people's opinions.
 
I am currently in the middle of reading A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. From what I've heard parts of this book are fabricated, but still a shocking depiction of a man who has truly hit his bottom. So far, I enjoy it and I would recommend this book.
 
mariacallas said:
Candy by Luke Davies. One of my most favorite reads. I've read my dog-eared copy several times and subsequent reads affect me as much as it did the first time. Heartbreaking...its the kind of book where after you finish you are like "Damn, that was fucking good."
candy-791858.jpg

"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. "
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any relation to the aussie movie of the same name?
 
^ second the book. must check out the movie one day.

to OP. Wasn't Go ask Alice written by a middle-aged mormon or something? I remember reading about how this anti-drug person fabricated the life story of a teenaged girl struggling with drug addiction. Beh

I'm not sure if R.A.W.'s Illuminatus! Trilogy's main topic is drugs or not...or what. Trippy business for sure.
 
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