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Edgy, erratic, and often disheartening, yet an absolutely riveting read
Once one has mastered the rules, it becomes possible for a gifted few to transcend them. If you ask accomplished musicians, for example, they will tell you that it takes more than 10,000 hours of technical emersion before their musicianship can truly be considered art. In The Adderall Diaries, author Stephen Elliott shatters the strictures of conventional writing to create a poignant chronicle that remains with the reader long after he or she has finished the work. It is edgy, erratic, and often disheartening, yet absolutely riveting. As the author himself states, "to write about oneself honestly one has to admit a certain inconsistency and randomness that would never be tolerated in even the best of novels."Events are not presented in chronological order, yet the narrative is understandable and relatively easy enough to navigate nevertheless. While not for everyone, particularly those with tender sensibilities, this book is a remarkable read. Those who peruse its pages...
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September 10, 2009
(Seattle, WA USA) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 5
A Raw, Self-Examined Life
This is an unconventional and amazing book. What started out as a quest by the author to investigate a possible homicide turns into a memoir in which the author subjects himself and his past to a blistering examination. The writing is laced with intense events and realizations, and it's quite an experience, but not for the timid of heart. This is very brave work, and I recommend it highly.
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September 1, 2009
(Baltimore, MD) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Product Description
In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as “a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you’ve never quite seen it before.”
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The Adderall Diaries
Half-memoir, half-true crime story, The Adderall Diaries is a spare yet vivid rendering of lives lived on the margins, of floating among temporary jobs and temporary partners, of a world where blatant dishonesty, cruelty, and self-interest are as common as, and sometimes serve in place of, love. The germ of the book is the author's distant connection to a man who claims to have murdered eight people and gotten away with it, a man himself romantically linked to the evident victim of another murder, for which the missing woman's husband is on trial. But readers looking for investigative details and legal nuance will be disappointed. Elliott wraps occasional reports on the case around accounts of his own current life (drug use, fleeting or unsatisfactory romantic relationships, violent sex) and fragments of autobiography (more drug use, drifting around the country holding various jobs, a difficult relationship with his father that left him a ward of the state as a teenager)...
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July 10, 2011
(Randolph, ME, USA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 4