Jesus’ Son in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Mar 22, 2017 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, short-stories, fiction, literary-schmiterary, wouldnt-normally-read, broken, best-audiobooks, era-1960s

Mindblowingly awesome.

This book is the most amazing collection of stories, every one of them a psychadelic drug trip full of people acting like the bizarre is normal, because they no longer have the energy to care.

The entire thing feels so effortless, like floating. I didn't want it to end.

This is the first time I've listened to a book of short stories in audiobook format. But it's Will Patton, so it's worth trying. I've never read Denis Johnson before, it's Will Patton who drew me to this, he i ...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Grace rated it it was ok

Author: Denis Johnson
Title: Jesus’ Son: Stories
Description: A collection of short stories, mostly narrated in the first person, about men (or one man, can’t tell) who have taken so many drugs they no longer know what’s what.
Review source: It’s on the Entertainment Weekly list that I’m reading through.
Plot: No single plot, since it’s short stories.
Characters: They put one in mind of carnies.
Writing style: At least he’s succinct.
Audience: Literary fiction. Men.
Wrap-up: I made it through by limiti ...more

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Nov 16, 2007 Joanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, audiobooks, 2012-read

The reader for the audiobook version of this book is a perfect match for the narrator of these loosely connected short stories. The stories are told from the perspective of an ordinary screwed up alcoholic drug user who is just going about his life. He is optimistic about humanity despite the lousy condition of his own life in many of the stories. Denis Johnson is masterful at writing these unvarnished gritty tales and turning a good phrase while doing it. I didn't like this collection quite as ...more

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