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the horror of addiction-- I was completely engaged in this heartbreaking story of heroin use and isolation. The mates of an alcoholic, Robert, use his flat to shoot heroin and cling to life. The author employs fresh, erratic sentences that give perfe...
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| Strange and brilliant. An unflinching look at a motley collection of souls whose lives - and deaths - revolve around their smack, crack and alcohol addictions. Addiction links them. They are friends based on their mutual needs, which can only ever be...more | |
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| I love Ivan Coyote - in person, in books, in theory, in practice, everything. She's a storyteller with a million stories, because he has a facility for finding the story in the most mundane encounters and events. His stories tend to be plotless yet m...more | |
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This is another of those books that I'd give 3.5 stars if I could.
Some of the things I liked about it included the character development, the lyrical language, and the unusual combination of subjects, including science, music and poetry. I also li...more |
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After the first few pages, I was turned off by how much Clay was trying to imitate To Kill a Mockingbird in such an obvious manner (i.e. solicitor Archie being the father of Jed and Skunk) but it turned out to be a lot more than that.
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
― John Lennon
― John Lennon
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf
― Virginia Woolf
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant
― Oscar Levant
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