Junkie Love

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Summary: Heroin Mon Amour
Review: The tale Shoenfelt tales is a familiar to anyone who's read THE STORY OF JUNK, JUNKY, CANDY, HOW TO STOP TIME, namely "how I fell in and out of love with heroin." Shoenfelt is very good on the details--you are right in every awful place he shoots up; unsparing and unsentimental about the attractions of heroin; the concactenation of pleasure and humiliation; difficult personal insights addiction can bring and the fact that doesn't redeem the misery you're making of your life and the lives of others. He also has a great sense of humor; the ability to laugh at himself and others; also sympathize with them.