March 12th, 2010 / 1:43 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Blake Butler—
The Top 13 lists Top 13 novels about drugs, including our pal Tony O’Neill. I’ll personally take The Wild Boys over Junky any day. What else are they missing?
I think Blake is gonna yell at me, but no Jesus’ Son?
I think Blake is gonna yell at me, but no Jesus’ Son?
the effects. you could say infinite jest.
oh, and the drug-related stories in venus drive are better than some of those novels.
the effects. you could say infinite jest.
oh, and the drug-related stories in venus drive are better than some of those novels.
beat me to it lincoln, have to have JS in there
beat me to it lincoln, have to have JS in there
I wondered that, too, but “novel” &c, blah blah blah.
I wondered that, too, but “novel” &c, blah blah blah.
What about Electric Kool-Aid? I suppose that’s another gray area suggestion. Genres blur.
What about Electric Kool-Aid? I suppose that’s another gray area suggestion. Genres blur.
They forgot ICED by Ray Shell.
They forgot ICED by Ray Shell.
Siren Promised by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson deserves mention. I would probably take Ubik over A Scanner Darkly.
Maybe somewhat related to this topic: J.G. Ballard and Ambit magazine once held a contest for the best fiction or poetry written under the influence of a drug. “Even baby aspirin,” according to Ballard. Ann Quinn won. Oral contraceptive was her drug. I’m not sure what she wrote for the contest, but her novel Passages is really good.
Siren Promised by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson deserves mention. I would probably take Ubik over A Scanner Darkly.
Maybe somewhat related to this topic: J.G. Ballard and Ambit magazine once held a contest for the best fiction or poetry written under the influence of a drug. “Even baby aspirin,” according to Ballard. Ann Quinn won. Oral contraceptive was her drug. I’m not sure what she wrote for the contest, but her novel Passages is really good.
michaux’s miserable miracle
michaux’s miserable miracle
unSweetined ???
unSweetined ???
oh and under the volcano. confessions of an english opium-eater is also missing.
oh and under the volcano. confessions of an english opium-eater is also missing.
Patrick DeWitt’s Ablutions.
Patrick DeWitt’s Ablutions.
Someone commented over at the Top 13 site that Alexander Trochhi’s “Cain’s Book” is missing, and I’d totally second that. I dont know how widely read it is anymore, but to me it’s one of the best novels about heroin addiction and the drug life in general ever written.
And anything by Herbert Huncke.
Someone commented over at the Top 13 site that Alexander Trochhi’s “Cain’s Book” is missing, and I’d totally second that. I dont know how widely read it is anymore, but to me it’s one of the best novels about heroin addiction and the drug life in general ever written.
And anything by Herbert Huncke.
novel with cocaine, crash . . . re drugs this comment of dfw’s once struck me: ‘do like a half gram of mushrooms then read some Parmenides’. i also second gene on ij. their list is poor.
novel with cocaine, crash . . . re drugs this comment of dfw’s once struck me: ‘do like a half gram of mushrooms then read some Parmenides’. i also second gene on ij. their list is poor.
yes tony. trocchi. still wow.
yes tony. trocchi. still wow.
Congratulations to Tony O’Neill.
“Junky” has some of Burroughs’s best prose. Not, to my mind, a minor work.
Congratulations to Tony O’Neill.
“Junky” has some of Burroughs’s best prose. Not, to my mind, a minor work.
I would love to read that. Berg is one of my favorite novels.
I would love to read that. Berg is one of my favorite novels.
[…] interest in Lewis. (Via Books, Inq.) . . . The top 13 novels about drugs. Commenters at HTML Giant rightly point out that Jesus’ Son is missing; though it might just be that it doesn’t qualify as a novel. […]
That one book, wait, fuck, I’m so high, I forgot.
That one book, wait, fuck, I’m so high, I forgot.
Seconding “Cain’s Book.” Can’t believe that was left off. Trocchi is due for a renaissance.
Seconding “Cain’s Book.” Can’t believe that was left off. Trocchi is due for a renaissance.
juiced. canseco
juiced. canseco
Oh and I think Junky is pretty amazing. Just re-read and did like (again)
Oh and I think Junky is pretty amazing. Just re-read and did like (again)
Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger
Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger
no book about drugs is nearly as good reading some of these while on the effin drugs they talk about. A totally new reading experience. Like reading Tolkien on LSD – this is why I don’t think I’ve actually read the Hobbit but a completely different construct built out of a few of the words I could actually read.
no book about drugs is nearly as good reading some of these while on the effin drugs they talk about. A totally new reading experience. Like reading Tolkien on LSD – this is why I don’t think I’ve actually read the Hobbit but a completely different construct built out of a few of the words I could actually read.
nice to see algren getting some love. sorely overlooked writer, imo.
nice to see algren getting some love. sorely overlooked writer, imo.
Under the Volcano. Malcolm Lowry. #1. No contest.
Oh, right, alcohol isn’t a drug. It’s a food. And Firmin could’ve ended up dead in that ditch beside the corpse of a dog just as easily with a peanut allergy.
Under the Volcano. Malcolm Lowry. #1. No contest.
Oh, right, alcohol isn’t a drug. It’s a food. And Firmin could’ve ended up dead in that ditch beside the corpse of a dog just as easily with a peanut allergy.
Baby Huey, A Cautionary Tale of Addiction. Perhaps the funniest and sadest tale of crack addiction to date.
In all forms, meth stimulates the central nervous system, with effects lasting anywhere from 4 hours to a few days. Meth use can not only modify behavior in an acute state, but after taking it for a long time, the drug literally changes the brain in fundamental and long-lasting ways. It kills by causing heart failure (myocardial infarction), brain damage, and stroke and it induces extreme, acute psychiatric and psychological symptoms that may lead to suicide or murder.
Some users often get the sensation that bugs are underneath their skin crawling around, which makes them pick and scratch.
Some common street names for methamphetamine include meth, speed, crank, go-fast, crystal, ice, tweak, crystal meth, chalk, uppers, black beauties, glass, bikers coffee, poor man’s cocaine,
chicken feed, and yaba.
Crank Addiction