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A review by ossuary
Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
3.0
It's fine.
Unfortunately Crowley's strength is in sermons and religious imagery which is largely isolated in the beginning and end of the movel, with noteworthy scenes in the middle while the leads are at their lowest. His characters have some interesting notes but are largely pwriod-typical stock characters. I was most disappointed with Lou, who had magnetic potential when she was introduced but lost it during her first line of plot-related dialogue. If Crowley could draw Lou would be a lasting image from the 20s but he couldn't so instead she's just a by-product of this book.
Everything makes sense when you realize this was written as an advertisement for his abbey in Cefalu. As far as anti-drug PSAs go this one is most sensitive to the perspective of an addict, and I'd recommend it to people thinking about quitting or who have family members suffering from addiction. The name on the cover might make them feel cool.
One n bomb in the first fifty pages, the rest of Crowley's racism is fetishizing.
It's fine.
Unfortunately Crowley's strength is in sermons and religious imagery which is largely isolated in the beginning and end of the movel, with noteworthy scenes in the middle while the leads are at their lowest. His characters have some interesting notes but are largely pwriod-typical stock characters. I was most disappointed with Lou, who had magnetic potential when she was introduced but lost it during her first line of plot-related dialogue. If Crowley could draw Lou would be a lasting image from the 20s but he couldn't so instead she's just a by-product of this book.
Everything makes sense when you realize this was written as an advertisement for his abbey in Cefalu. As far as anti-drug PSAs go this one is most sensitive to the perspective of an addict, and I'd recommend it to people thinking about quitting or who have family members suffering from addiction. The name on the cover might make them feel cool.
One n bomb in the first fifty pages, the rest of Crowley's racism is fetishizing.
It's fine.