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Drug related novels

miasma said:
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
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no way! i hope not i thought that was real and i completely loved the book :\
 
I'll second the Welsh, Burroughs, Davies and Huxley. Oh yeah, and Hunter S.

I've had The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test on my bookshelf for a while, but haven't got around to reading it yet.

Anyone read Ballard's Cocaine Nights?
 
Definitely read Kool-Aid. It's a bit of a struggle at times, as Wolfe like to go off on tangents, but it's a brilliant book.
 
The author of 'Go Ask Alice':



Those cheeky Mormons. If they're not crawling through the gap under your door or ironing their magical underwear, they're publishing anti-drug propaganda under the guise of anonymous auto-biographies.

That is, if wikipedia is anything to go by...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Sparks
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What a joke! I thought was all real and it was just a diary found by someone and published. That really pisses me off. :!
 
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Honestly, I've read a shitload of drug fiction, and I believe "Jesus' Son" by Denis Johnson is THE best you can find. Fear and Loathing is good too.
 
Bardo5 said:
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.
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The Doors of Perception is a must have indeed. Brave New World as well. Another classic to add to the list if the obvious; LSD- My problem child, by the late Albert Hofmann.
 
"Junkie Love", by Phil Shoenfelt.

semi-autobiographical, nice (classy black cover), little (140 pages) book depicting the life of a heroin addict with all the pain, hope, love, hate, surviving, self-loathing, getting clean and relapsing. Nice read, nothing special but I liked it. It's placed in the UK in the late '80s.
 
It isn't a drug book but there is an awesome scene in White Oleander where the main character and her friend drop acid. It's described beautifully, comically, perfectly. Janet Fitch has dropped acid before I bet!
 
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