BTw, I don't know if this the appropriate entry to attach to, but have you ever read Ann Marlowe's memior How to Stop Time from A to Z. It's about the author's heroin addiction--but so much more. One of the most life-chaning books I have ever read. Also, some funny stuff that resonates with your journal, like she talks about how after getting clean it's especially hard to clean one's house, because it's easier to do so when one is high...
Hehe, that book is actually on my shelf! I've read it twice, but I have to admit it's not really one of my favourites. I found that some parts were really good (like the cleaing part you mentioned), but a lot of the sections made me angry because they weren't quite what it's like. She wasn't a full-time addict, and she never injected, so her experiences were a little different (although she writes as if they are the same - she doesn't seem to believe that being a full-fledged junkie is not the same as her problems with it). The parts about getting clean were especially off-base (ie: it feeling like a case of the flu . . . uh, NO). But the smaller details were good and well-accounted, I thought. And, like I said, I have read it twice, so I obviously enjoyed some parts of it, lol. I didn't think anyone else would know about this book, I'm surprised you picked it up! Any other books you could recommend? I pick up almost everything I see regarding heroin and addiction, but maybe I've missed some (I hope)?
Re: Keep me!miranda30December 16 2005, 09:04:50 UTC
Alas, perhaps the fact she was never physically addicted is why it 'spoke' to me--regarding my eating disorder, the sort of mind numbing repetition of ritual and routine and desiring to escape life..
"More Now and Again" by Elizabeth Wurtzel isn't really a 'good' book but it's the kind of 'oh, I can't believe she behaves so badly and is so spoiled' and makes you feel better about yourself, if you know what I mean!
"First comes Love" is a book about a heroin using poet and her gay (yes gay) heroin using husband.
I forget the name, but there was a recent interview on NPR about a guy who wrote a memoir about the last days of the beats, and he hung out with William Burroughs and when he asked him about his junkie years Burroughs said he would never have done heroin as a young man if he knew how constipated it would make him as a old man, which I thought was pretty funny...I'll have to look for the title!
I've read the Wurtzel one, but that third one sounds neat! If ever you remember the title, please send it my way! I haven't read the "First Comes Love" one either, so I'll have to check around for that as well. Thanks!
with the lists, would this help---> the "friends" list is people that YOU have added (allowing them to read everything unless it's private or filtered) and the "friend of" list is people who have added you to THEIR list, allowing you to read everything in their journals (with the same exceptions if they use them)....if you compare lists, you'll see if there are people who've added you but you haven't added them for a matched set, and add them if you want. :-)
if a livejournal name in the lists has a strikethrough (line through it), that lj is no longer that..might be deleted, might be the person changed the journal's name...
Thanks so much for the little tutorial there, lol. I appreciate it, and will have to save it for future reference when I inevitably get all muddled up again!
Comments 14
Reply
Reply
BTw, I don't know if this the appropriate entry to attach to, but have you ever read Ann Marlowe's memior How to Stop Time from A to Z. It's about the author's heroin addiction--but so much more. One of the most life-chaning books I have ever read. Also, some funny stuff that resonates with your journal, like she talks about how after getting clean it's especially hard to clean one's house, because it's easier to do so when one is high...
Reply
And, like I said, I have read it twice, so I obviously enjoyed some parts of it, lol. I didn't think anyone else would know about this book, I'm surprised you picked it up! Any other books you could recommend? I pick up almost everything I see regarding heroin and addiction, but maybe I've missed some (I hope)?
Reply
"More Now and Again" by Elizabeth Wurtzel isn't really a 'good' book but it's the kind of 'oh, I can't believe she behaves so badly and is so spoiled' and makes you feel better about yourself, if you know what I mean!
"First comes Love" is a book about a heroin using poet and her gay (yes gay) heroin using husband.
I forget the name, but there was a recent interview on NPR about a guy who wrote a memoir about the last days of the beats, and he hung out with William Burroughs and when he asked him about his junkie years Burroughs said he would never have done heroin as a young man if he knew how constipated it would make him as a old man, which I thought was pretty funny...I'll have to look for the title!
Reply
Reply
if a livejournal name in the lists has a strikethrough (line through it), that lj is no longer that..might be deleted, might be the person changed the journal's name...
:-)
Reply
Reply
Reply
Tje subject says it all. I am Sugar Magnolia from TF. My LJ username is sugarmagnolia80.
Thanks so much,
Sugar Magnolia
P. S. Good luck with everything!
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment