coffeeneur's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
4.0
Good, a bit over wrought at times for my tastes, but like how Carr explores the fallibility of memory and compared his recollections to others via interviews. Liked his career story and thoughts on writing.
sabretooth's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
I had a difficult time getting into the first half of this book. It was quite slow and I didn’t relate to the theme that much. At the second part of the book, the writing becomes much more interesting and the story unfolds in a beautiful way. I was hesitant about this book when reading it, but now that I’m done I would recommend it to someone looking for a heartfelt story about the hard moments in life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Physical abuse
chasing_dallas's review
4.0
This was a hard book to keep reading because his story was written with brutal honesty without an attempt to add a redeeming moral point to make it easier to digest. It was very well done book and was a strange insight into addiction.
sheemsinbk's review
4.0
I finally read a book! This was great - a really intense self examination of the author's past told compellingly.
popo0017's review
5.0
One of the best memoirs of drug addiction I have read, and I have read a lot. David Carr uses his investigative Journalism skills to search for the truth of what really occurred the prior two years of his life while under the influence only to find that his memory does not at all match the real truth of what happened. An eye opening read on what drug addiction can do to years of your life.
meli65's review
4.0
I love junkie stories anyway, but this was an especially good one because the author diligently checked his sources and found that he often remember things quite differently. It became a fascinating examination of the realities of addiction, and the vagaries of memory.
It was too long but all in all a pretty engrossing book.
It was too long but all in all a pretty engrossing book.
obiebyke's review
4.0
Dark and wonderful. David Carr is an unsympathetic narrator. He remains an asshole at the end, by my estimation. But he tells a good story, and gives the best tour of 70s-90s seedy Minneapolis ever. RIP.