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More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
I crush up my pills and snort them like dust. They are my sugar. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. They drip through me like tupelo honey. Then they are gone. Then I need more. I always need more.
For all of my life I have needed more.
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth Wurtzel published her groundbreaking memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, at
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November 1st 2007
by Simon & Schuster
(first published October 1st 2000)
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DON'T FEED HER DRUG HABIT! this is another indulgence memoir that give memiors a bad name. she describes how she finished her earlier book, bitch, by getting high first on ritalin, and then on coke. she never takes responsibility for anything, she blames the world and not herself, and I HATE HER.
Make. her. stop. PLEASE!
I picked up this book whenever I felt emotionally constipated - I'd read a few pages, get fed up with her incessant whining and her seemingly endless supply of self-pity, let out a roar of frustration and throw the book against the wall. Then I'd smile and go back to doing whatever I was doing before. It was cathartic in a twisted way, so I guess that's one positive thing I got out of this book...??
I'm not a cold hearted bitch, and I tried really h...more
I picked up this book whenever I felt emotionally constipated - I'd read a few pages, get fed up with her incessant whining and her seemingly endless supply of self-pity, let out a roar of frustration and throw the book against the wall. Then I'd smile and go back to doing whatever I was doing before. It was cathartic in a twisted way, so I guess that's one positive thing I got out of this book...??
I'm not a cold hearted bitch, and I tried really h...more
More, Now, Again may often seem like merely arrogant, spoiled brat, stream-of-conscious writing, but it is also an honest and accurate account of the narcissistic, contrived and ingenuitive life of an addict drowning in psychosis and a disengaged mind.
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Oh, it was awful and I couldn't put it down. I have a certain, shall we say, *affinity* for memoirs about really fucked up people. Wurtzel comes across as simultaneously annoying, manipulative, awful, spoiled, whiny, desperate, genuine, shallow, talented and fascinating. The horror, the horror...
Wurtzel is a self-absorbed ninny who writes too many memoirs.
This is the real story of addiction. This is what A Million Little Pieces failed to convey.
She finally learns humility and loses a sense of entitlement, and that is a growing experience that most spoiled Americans would benefit from.
I believe the real addiction is that of consumption. As individuals we medicate ourselves with food, drugs, shopping, attention-seeking behavior etc. We try to replace people with things because we've grown to distrust others and refuse to appear vulner...more
She finally learns humility and loses a sense of entitlement, and that is a growing experience that most spoiled Americans would benefit from.
I believe the real addiction is that of consumption. As individuals we medicate ourselves with food, drugs, shopping, attention-seeking behavior etc. We try to replace people with things because we've grown to distrust others and refuse to appear vulner...more
I made the mistake of reading this first instead of Prozac Nation or Bitch. You should probably read one of those first. Nonetheless this was voyeuristically fascinating & there are some insane things in here, like when she gets to the point where she's doing piles of coke & practically living at her publishing company's midtown offices & one of the assistants picks up her drug deliveries from the lobby. When she goes to rehab it gets boring, esp. if you've already read a lot of rehab books (Jam...more
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i had been interested in reading this for more than a year, after hearing that Elizabeth Wurtzel got sober in AA after writing Prozac Nation, but I decided to buy it when I started taking Adderall. Wurtzel's story begins when she is prescribed Ritalin to treat "treatment resistent depression" like I was, and I was very interested to read about her experience, especially because taking this new medication makes me feel a little embarrassed and nervous, as someone in recovery. The good...more
I only gave Prozac Nation three stars, though it probably deserves four. The fact of the matter is that I don't freaking give a damn that she appeared whiny and self-absorbed to everyone else; the nature of depression and addiction lends itself to introspection that is hard to avoid.
She consistently delivers a psychoanalytical look into her mind, which is brave as there is never any hiding; my psychology teacher gave us this book to read when discussing addiction and I can see why. I...more
She consistently delivers a psychoanalytical look into her mind, which is brave as there is never any hiding; my psychology teacher gave us this book to read when discussing addiction and I can see why. I...more
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Let me DEFEND my wurtzel girl here kids.
I think that her publishers had a lot to do with this book being a redemption story when all was said and done.
Being that BITCH was such a....well....coked up little wander through Wurtzel's rathering refreshing Bad Girl take on the big scary F word---maybe her long-suffering friend & agent Lydia just didn't want another nightmare book tour--wurtzel missing her connection to Sweden and ending up buying expensive scarves and alchohol...more
I think that her publishers had a lot to do with this book being a redemption story when all was said and done.
Being that BITCH was such a....well....coked up little wander through Wurtzel's rathering refreshing Bad Girl take on the big scary F word---maybe her long-suffering friend & agent Lydia just didn't want another nightmare book tour--wurtzel missing her connection to Sweden and ending up buying expensive scarves and alchohol...more
It's hard to say what I think of this book. I like it, certainly, but it's not the kind of thing that lends itself to "like" and "good." It's terrifically effective. Reading Wurtzel's description of what her life of addiction was like while she wrote Bitch makes me feel like I don't want to read Bitch -- however good it may be. I think I'd spend the book pondering Wurtzel in her succession of Florida apartments, or in her publisher's office, snorting an eightball of coke ...more
I get the impression that most of the people who hate this book have little or no experience with addiction. Yes, of course, Wurtzel comes across as self destructive. That's the point. You think people decide one day that a drug addiction would make their life better?
It is really, REALLY hard to watch someone you care about make extremely bad, extremely stupid choices over and over and over. Wurtzel lets you get into her head while she's making these extremely bad choices. I think t...more
It is really, REALLY hard to watch someone you care about make extremely bad, extremely stupid choices over and over and over. Wurtzel lets you get into her head while she's making these extremely bad choices. I think t...more
I'm almost done with this book, and well I HATE IT. It' horribly written. She drags ON AND ON about something little. Written as though she is bragging about how her life was.
Well it's been almost 7 months now since I've started this book and well I'm still in the spot I was when I wrote the first page of this review. I would NOT recommend this book to ANYONE. She is a HORRIBLE writter.
Well it's been almost 7 months now since I've started this book and well I'm still in the spot I was when I wrote the first page of this review. I would NOT recommend this book to ANYONE. She is a HORRIBLE writter.
I absolutely hated this book! I finished it because I hate starting books and never finishing them. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. In this book, she's whiny and blames everyone else for her problems and NEVER takes responsibility for herself and her own actions. I think that's one reason why I hate the book so much. It doesn't seem fitting to call it a "memoir".
This book kind of makes me sick. The author is so self involved and fucked up and it totally sucks me in. Interesting documentation on addiction, but really more like a theraputic diary written and left lying out for someone to find and take pity on the author- and maybe should have been kept that way. I will finish it though.
Well, I've been reading Wurtzel since the mid-90s, and she was always a hot train-wreck girl. I still remember her showing up on the chat show Jon Stewart had back c. 1995 in a much-too-short skirt, all crazed eyes and bitchy-funny stories. And of course I was wildly entranced by the notorious cover photos for "Bitch". So I was expecting great things here--- over-the-top meltdown tales. Alas, though--- far too much about addiction and not enough train-wreck depravity--- i.e., no hot ov...more
Another winner in the very guilty pleasure category. Poor Elizabeth gets addicted to Ritilin now. Sigh. Stuck in Florida - for some reason -she is so bored she starts hacking up and snorting her ADD meds like half the population of bored, dumb 18 year old boys across the heartland. But she is a 35 year old best selling author who has, presumably, by the nature of her books, has been through mounds of therapy and been to Harvard (which I always found hard to believe). So why so dumb and unenlig...more
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I have been reading this book on and off for several months now, I am not a slow reader by any means. It's just that Elizabeth's writing is so...redundant. Some of her facts, stories or information that she uses to illustrate or support her point have been told in her previous book or her current writings. Her thoughts are fast and random and sometimes this is hard to digest. She is a smart girl for sure and in touch with her emotions better than I would imagine a junkie to be but still...it's t...more
I love how unapologetically difficult she is. Especially when she is using, but even when she is sober, she's so smart and so selfish and so funny and so insecure, it's wonderful to watch her slowly get it, slowly wake up to her own life. I wish we all could so lucidly describe our own moments of self-awareness. We might learn a lot from each other. And ourselves.
I also have a soft spot for Wurtzel because of Bitch, and secondarily because of Prozac Nation, and because of my nostalgia ...more
I also have a soft spot for Wurtzel because of Bitch, and secondarily because of Prozac Nation, and because of my nostalgia ...more
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!! READ IT, READ IT, READ IT!
Grow up and get a grip elizabeth wurtzel.
I have always had problems with people, with the whole human race. Is it because I'm scared to be hurt or because humans are often unfriendly, selfish and offending? I try so hard to be friendly and gentle, but don't seem to get this back very often. I'm very sensitive, which means that little things in life count and that I think too much about random things. I really wish to be more relaxed and laid back!
Anyway, why am I telling this? I have read a section in Wurtzel's book that I really...more
Anyway, why am I telling this? I have read a section in Wurtzel's book that I really...more
From the first time I read the back cover of this book, I was hooked. Wurtzel's description of Ritalin as "sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none" mirrored ver batim my own experience with the drug. As a recovering addict, it was impossible not to be moved by Wurtzel's brutally honest and totally real account of her experience with the true nature of addiction - both the pain and the redemption. Yet I wouldn't be altogether surprised if to the average reader Wurtzel is seen a...more
Anyone who has delt with the mental health system in this country will understand the point that this book establishes - pills don't make the demons go away or the depression stop. It is then that too many people turn to addiction to quiet the darkness. For anyone who has been troubled with addiction, weather it be personal or someone in your life, and won will see the beauty in this book shows about the resilance of a womans character when all odds are pitted against her.
I loved prozac nation because I understood what she was going through and it was nice to read about someone elses problems instead of thinking of my own. so I was looking forward to reading this one as well. I really liked it even though I found her to be very annoying and often times I wish I could go through the book and ring her neck about the way she viewed some things but that is why i like her books so much because they make you feel even if you do not identify with what she is going throu...more
Michelle Muench
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This was definatly much better than prozac nation, which i found slow and dull. This was much faster paced and easier to get into. i enjoyed following along with how she grows and learns to live without these substances, and i respect how she could describe her most horrible and most embarrassing moments into a book to share with anyone. I believe we had to see her terrible evil side to completely understand how addiction works.
This book was a disappointment for me. I had heard only rave reviews from friends for Prozac Nation. When that was unavailable at the library, I checked out this memoir. This memoir is only of addiction, not recovery. Although I imagine that the phenomenon of addiction is poignantly and accurately portrayed, the result is self-conscious and self-absorbed writing. This book reads like she was still using speed while writing it. I do not recommend giving your time to this book.
Really takes an addicts world step by step. Wurtzel did not leave anything out. For some this may make the book somewhat boring and long, but for those who understand the process, it is a very realistic portrayal. Also, the ending is somewhat abrupt, but its also the way that period in her life changed. She didn't write a self-help book, it's a memoir.
I admire this writer for her quintessential courage to write from her deepest core.
She is brutally honest, daring and fearless in the manner in which she expresses herself through words. Her inhibitions are uncensored as many of the intricate layers she sheds, but a little more poise would balance her blaring thoughts.
She is brutally honest, daring and fearless in the manner in which she expresses herself through words. Her inhibitions are uncensored as many of the intricate layers she sheds, but a little more poise would balance her blaring thoughts.
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An honest personal truth about addiction and society's acceptance of drug use be it illegal or prescription. I reccomend this book to any who has felt they needed something to escape their feelings. I respect Ms. Wurtzel for being so frank about how easy it all slips out of control.
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Brought up Jewish, Wurtzel's parents divorced when she was young. As described in Prozac Nation, Wurtzel's depression began at the ages of ten to twelve. She attended Ramaz for high school and was described as an over-achiever by her teachers, who expected her to become a nationally famous writer. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and the Dallas Morning N...more
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“I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.”
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