Tweak!

[Laura]

I must confess I've only ever been able to skim this book, though I may give it another shot this month. If you have read it, though, what made you like or dislike it?

[Tina]

I found a great list of study/discussion questions for this book on the Simon and Schuster website at http://books.simonandschuster.com/Twe...
I am currently reading this book and wanted something to focus my attention since I have such a hard time retaining what I read when reading nonfiction. I am reading it on my Nook Color and so far this is a very engaging book that is hard to put down when I have to go do something else.

[Laura]

Thanks for the link, Tina!

I did read most of the sequel Nic wrote, called We All Fall Down, in galley form on a Sony eReader. I have sort of the opposite problem--it's very hard for me to concentrate on reading on any kind of electronic device, so whatever I'm reading needs to be quick and not something I have to pay a lot of attention to. That's sort of how I felt about Nic Sheff's books, so I guess it worked out okay for me. :)

I think I had an easier time identifying with Nic's father's book, which treats the same set of events, largely, but from the father's point of view. I have read a ton of addiction memoirs, and usually they inspire sympathy; Nic often made me just want to turn away. I wonder, though, if that's because I read his father's book first, and if I'd feel differently if I'd started with Nic's take on things.

[Tina]

I have realized something after not picking the book back up after a number of days. That even though it is engaging while I am reading, it is harder and harder to come back to after putting it down again. possibly this is because there is nothing I can do but watch him killing himself bit by bit even as he knows that is what he is doing. It is depressing.

[Laura]

Yeah, that's kind of the feeling I got from it, too. I was just looking over the weekend at a section of his father's book where he talks about theories of addiction and whether/how the addict has control over his behavior, and how he tries not to blame himself or Nic yet sometimes does--which is much how I feel reading this--you just want to jump in and shake him, but you sort of know that won't do any good.