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Summary: Interesting perspective
Review: When one reads books or articles on drug use, they usually boil down to either being in strong favor of the effects of drugs, or an attempt to convince others that drugs will ruin your life.
This book, however, is a blaring exception.
Drawing from personal experience in the junkie world, Burroughs creates a fresh insight into the junkie world. How things operate and why the things that happen go on.
Perhaps the most interesting of anything in the book is the first appendix, the 28th chapter (which was taken out for the original edition). Here Burroughs presents a hypothesis of his. He connects the purpose of opium in plants to the effects of opium in humans and sheds light to a truly interesting theory.
Rarely am I as enthused and captivated by a book like I was when I read "Junky".
Strongly recommended.
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Summary: A Classic Tale of Herion Abuse by a User
Review: William S. Burroughs. I can honestly say I appreciated this book when I read it, for the chance to see the inside of a "hard" drug abuser's stand on things, without taking to the needle myself... I agree with the other reviewer, whereas Burroughs does nothing to encourage drug use with this book, but rather explains certain causes and effects that pertain to users. 'Junky' is autobiographical of Burroughs' life, which is easily detected in the clarity he recalls events - not so much as a character telling a story, but how the deal REALLY went down. This book reminded me about another drug related book called 'Crack House,' but that was more of a documentary style book. The author of that was an outsider, not a user, but accepted in the house as he observed the crack junkies. William S. gives you the inside view. While I don't recommend the needle, I would recommend this book as an alternative. If you must succumb to the call of the needle, read this book first, and get an idea of what you're getting into. yo.
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Summary: Another time, another place
Review: Yep, the title pretty much sums it up; a franked, personal recording of drug addiction in rather more innocent times, it makes for a very interesting and enjoyable read of a bygone era in the American underground scene during Hoover's war on drugs.
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