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oElegantly constructed, searingly honest, and impossible to put down.o -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon, winner of the National Book Award oThere are moments when I suddenly realize that I'm a nice boy from Iowa who is entirely comfortable sitting in a room of freaks.o So begins Patrick Moore's unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addict-a otweaker.o Like a wild ride down Alice's rabbit hole with a guide who is darkly funny and heartbreakingly honest, Tweaked chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, Zelma-an alcoholic artist who, when loaded, turns frozen food into crafts projectsa-to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God. Along the way, there are acid trips at the V.F.W., Dexetrim study halls with his Bad Girl Posse in the seventies, teeth-grinding nights of dancing and anonymous sex in New York City's hottest eighties clubs, taking pictures of Andy Warhol, losing friends and lovers, and navigating a Byzantine underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers, and colorful characters as intense as the drug itself. There is Lee, the glamorous, outrU bad boy with a devastating wit and a taste for danger; Tony, the tweaker who likes to remove his eyebrows; Ding-Dong, the Depends-wearing, nearly blind housemate; Hisako, the artist and squatter with an impenetrable Japanese accent and a fondness for hot plate cooking; oMothero Judy, the tough, butch rehab counselor who takes no prisoners, and countless others on the road from crystal meth hell to eventual sobriety. Candid, gripping, and ultimately triumphant, Tweaked is that rarest of memoirs-a tale so vivid and personal in the telling it feels like fiction, but every word is true. oDevastatingaMoore writes fearlessly.o --The Washington Post… (lisätietoja)
It wasn’t the sort of book I already had an opinion on, which is why I delayed reviewing it. Maybe I should read it again. But I do remember. It takes courage even for a tough guy to admit that he has been an addict, betrayed his lover, and heard a voice in a delusion (?) say that, “I’ll help you but this is the last time.”
This was not what I expected and I really struggled to finish. It's not that it was a poorly written book, actually I found it almost poetic in nature and language. The problem ls that it was more a memoir on his homosexuality and his sex life rather than the drugs. I'm rather opened minded and talk of sexual encounters don't put me off even if it's the darker side of the pleasure realm but that was all this book was about. Well written just not for me. ( )
oElegantly constructed, searingly honest, and impossible to put down.o -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon, winner of the National Book Award oThere are moments when I suddenly realize that I'm a nice boy from Iowa who is entirely comfortable sitting in a room of freaks.o So begins Patrick Moore's unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addict-a otweaker.o Like a wild ride down Alice's rabbit hole with a guide who is darkly funny and heartbreakingly honest, Tweaked chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, Zelma-an alcoholic artist who, when loaded, turns frozen food into crafts projectsa-to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God. Along the way, there are acid trips at the V.F.W., Dexetrim study halls with his Bad Girl Posse in the seventies, teeth-grinding nights of dancing and anonymous sex in New York City's hottest eighties clubs, taking pictures of Andy Warhol, losing friends and lovers, and navigating a Byzantine underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers, and colorful characters as intense as the drug itself. There is Lee, the glamorous, outrU bad boy with a devastating wit and a taste for danger; Tony, the tweaker who likes to remove his eyebrows; Ding-Dong, the Depends-wearing, nearly blind housemate; Hisako, the artist and squatter with an impenetrable Japanese accent and a fondness for hot plate cooking; oMothero Judy, the tough, butch rehab counselor who takes no prisoners, and countless others on the road from crystal meth hell to eventual sobriety. Candid, gripping, and ultimately triumphant, Tweaked is that rarest of memoirs-a tale so vivid and personal in the telling it feels like fiction, but every word is true. oDevastatingaMoore writes fearlessly.o --The Washington Post
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