No matter how the writer may try to have it otherwise, most biographies are simply one thing after another. The life of a junkie is not just one thing after another, it is the same one thing after another -- and yet there is not a page in Deep in a Dream that is not engaging, alive, demanding a response from a reader whether that be a matter of horror or awe, making the reader almost complicit in whatever comes next, even when, with the story less that of a musician who used heroin to play than that of a junkie who played to get heroin, it seems certain that nothing can.
Monday, September 05, 2011
A singular biography ...
... Deep in a Dream - The Barnes & Noble Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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"Let's Get Lost" is a terrific documentary especially in the comments of his many ex-girlfriends. Mostly, he comes off as an irrestibly charming liar -- irrestible charm not being a characteristic of most junkies, I'm assuming.
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