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thighvy's review against another edition
4.0
Well damn, I read this book while in rehab. Incredible, triggering, heartbreaking, and relatable.
syds_shelves's review against another edition
The author reading this audiobook is really what made me stop. It’s read very flat with the same tone. Might try again later with the physical book.
amgratz's review against another edition
I read this a little early on, as a middle-schooler, and can say now that it’s much better at illustrating withdrawal than I’d realized back then.
rachael_reading's review against another edition
3.0
It was good. Not a very clear ending.. maybe there will be a sequal. But overall it was a good read.
lavoiture's review against another edition
3.0
Not exactly what I was looking for when I picked it up (hadn't heard of it, but thought it looked interested at the library), but I liked it enough.
mesy_mark's review against another edition
dark
emotional
In this book is well, wow? For short I should type. The book is about a madding descended to the world of crack cocaine. All that money was given to the den of a drug that near ruined his life. While yes ending in the eventual get into rehab, the focus is on the massive weight-reducing months-long crack binge that I am just gobsmacked on how MUCH money was wasted on the crack.
A long thing in the book showing the depravity of the addition is the constant needing holes made into an ever never tight enough belt. He rushes around in more and more disparagingly hard to believe people with crack addition with the fact of the matter if he was going to get caught by the JC penny gang that wanted to arrest him for his massive drug buying. he has some privilege in his stats of being a white male, and he even acknowledges for the most part till much later, doesn't look like an addict. It is only when he beyond that point does he reach rehab
I'm sure his next book will be more on his recovery/ This book was all about the hard, extremely hard, the road that gets to that point in no fluffy point that was about addiction. Interesting. Triggering to the max, for a very obvious point, and compelling.
A long thing in the book showing the depravity of the addition is the constant needing holes made into an ever never tight enough belt. He rushes around in more and more disparagingly hard to believe people with crack addition with the fact of the matter if he was going to get caught by the JC penny gang that wanted to arrest him for his massive drug buying. he has some privilege in his stats of being a white male, and he even acknowledges for the most part till much later, doesn't look like an addict. It is only when he beyond that point does he reach rehab
I'm sure his next book will be more on his recovery/ This book was all about the hard, extremely hard, the road that gets to that point in no fluffy point that was about addiction. Interesting. Triggering to the max, for a very obvious point, and compelling.
nono_mv's review against another edition
4.0
Read this during the first lockdown and it's really heavy shit. The way the author talks about cycle of addiction... It's real and brutal... It's fucking devastating