false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1246279261m/6397953.jpg 6397953 2 In the spring of 2007, a brilliant computer programmer named Hans Reiser stands accused of murdering his estranged wife, Nina. Despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence against him, he proclaims his innocence. The case takes a twist when Nina’s former lover, and Hans’s former best friend, Sean Sturgeon, confesses to eight unrelated murders that no one has ever heard of.<BR><BR>At the time of Sturgeon’s confession, Stephen Elliot is paralyzed by writer’s block, in the thrall of Adderall dependency, and despondent over the state of his romantic life. But he is fascinated by Sturgeon, whose path he has often crossed in San Francisco’s underground S&M scene. What kind of person, he wonders, confesses to a murder he likely did not commit? One answer is, perhaps, a man like Elliott’s own father.<BR><BR>So begins a riveting journey through a neon landscape of false confessions, self-medication, and torturous sex. Set against the backdrop of a nation at war, in the declining years of the Silicon Valley tech boom and the dawn of Paris Hilton’s celebrity, <I>The Adderall Diaries</I> is at once a gripping account of a murder trial and a scorching investigation of the self. Tough, tender, and unflinchingly honest, it is the breakout book by one of the most daring writers of his generation. 6586641 book 1 9 2009 The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder total:96|5:27|4:41|3:18|2:7|1:3| 96 370 389 33 4 1 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:21:13 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 23:33:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:01:40 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 23:05:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 19:43:22 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 20:14:13 -0700 2009
Elliott's laid-bare, forthright style is the common denominator throughout, the book's successes hinging on how he tunes that style to the matter at hand, which is a complicated one: Ell...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 10:55:15 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 10:57:24 -0700 2009 1 (This review - or whatever it should be called - was originally written for The Skinny magazine in Scotland)

Stephen Elliott is hooked on Adderall. It’s basically speed in a capsule, prescribed by his psychiatrist. He takes too much; sometimes he opens up the capsules and snorts the pow...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 07:19:46 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 07:32:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 12:18:43 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:09:30 -0700 2009 more of a diary would be if it had a Yorkie on the cover and a glitter pen attached with a little belt-like loop. The book covers just more than a year in the life of Elliott, who is combating writer's ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 17:48:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:23:52 -0700 2009 Steve Almond says he goes to books to get ripped open and fucked up. Consider me totally fucked. I entered foster care and group homes when I was thirteen years old. I thought I had found a nice home with foster parents but it didn’t work out. I had sex with my foster brothers. I had foster...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 16:13:38 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 13:42:11 -0700 2009 (this review originally appeared at WelcomeToTheVelvet [dot:] com)

Enticed by the hook of a true crime story involving Hans Reiser’s marital crimes and eight unrelated murders, The Adderall Diaries author Stephen Elliott instead discovers a vehicle by which to organize and understand hi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:28:40 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 13:19:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Oct 22 10:27:21 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 12:02:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 21:38:21 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:47:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:05:09 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:12:28 -0700 2009
This book covers the period after the 2004 election, and Stephen has writer's block. He intertwines a family fable about a man his father may have killed, with an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 07:40:53 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:25:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 12:57:24 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:25:45 -0700 2009 Amazon.com and Radiohead, an...more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:27:51 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 12:58:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 11:25:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 11:31:14 -0700 2009
I will recommend it to anyone who is battling or has battled depression, adhd, insomnia, intimacy issues, career uncertainty, or a case of The Mondays. So, basically everyone.

And I will recommend that struggling st...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 11:31:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 04:44:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 21:56:57 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 22:03:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Nov 08 12:59:42 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 13:07:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 12 11:11:02 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 23 06:24:23 -0800 2009 This memoir is a great spill of Elliott's running consciousness. Part ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6397953