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Summary: He can write
Review: At the end of almost every story, you are bound to be shaking your head at what just happened, and wonder how you got there from where you started. A book that I find myself reading over and over again, just to get that feeling. Somehow, when lent out, it never seems to return. Johnson writes about low-lifes better than anyone. His novel "Angels" is a good companion for this collection of short stories.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: Denis Johnson is absolutely wonderful. The way he describes the smallest thing such as a shy smile makes me want to run for a highlighter to underline it. My book is really ruined. is not just a heroin addict he is vulnerable individual..You must read this book, a masterpiece of American literature...
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Summary: This book. . .
Review: I think I've bought this book about five times since 1994. Every friend I've loaned it to has failed to return it! I'll quickly echo the other reviews here by syaing that it's among the finest fiction I've read. I've tried to imitate it on my own & have learned the hard way that I cannot. I'll probably have to buy a copy of it again soon.
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Summary: A Modern American Masterpiece
Review: Reading this book, one experiences the shock of recognition that comes with any great piece of literature. It changed the way we thought about and understood fiction. This ranks among the best collection of short stories in the English language, and "Emergency" is the finest, most original and most compelling American short story since Cheever's "The Enormous Radio." This book quietly spawned whole schools of hacks and imitators; every third issue of any given fiction magazine contains yet another pale attempt to emulate Johnson's genius. But this is the original. In the several years since its publication, Jesus' Son has taken its rightful place, quite simply, among the 100 or so essential English-language works of fiction.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Denis Johnson's prose is very similar to that of Hunter S. Thompson. His short stories are clear in a way that only psychedellia can be. Extremely human, usually painful, not for the squeamish. Read this book.
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Summary: Life as seen through many of our eyes!
Review: Thank you for allowing me to visit with you. This book of life you shared helps in the filling of that large empty hole we all carry with us. Jean Andre Vallery
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Summary: One of the loveliest books in the English language.
Review: _Jesus' Son_ follows you around like a small, black dog: short, spare, deadpan, dream-like, it is, more than anything else, a catalog of the most beautiful sentences, all put to the service of documenting the random detritus at the bottom of some sort of American Dream, that have been strung together in English since--I don't know, early Hemingway? _Jesus' Son_ is one of those books that changed the way I looked at the language; if pressed, I might be able to think of higher praise, but it's unlikely. It's not a depressing book, it's a beautiful book. I don't care about what it's _about_; I care about what it _says_, and it says things in a way that, again, no other author writing in English can approach. It's that new, and that good.
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Summary: An amusing look into the worlds of drug addicts.
Review: Denis Johnson does a wonderful job of bringing the reader into the world of off-beat characters. Many are under the influence of drugs and alcohol and their actions are mostly irrational to the average person. It is humorous but at the same time scary! I would recommend this book to anyone with a strange sense of humor.
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Summary: Perfect!
Review: The last person I recomended this book stole five copies so he could give them away. I've read it at least 50 times. If you write, if you read, if you've made mistakes, you will like this book.
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Summary: my god
Review: these people crack me up. this was one of the most hillarious books i've read. if you do by the book take special notice of one of the short storys titled "dun dun" and tell me his point was not to plummet you into laughter. these people take themselves WAY to seriously this book was very VERY funny and should be taken that way
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