Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
by Nic Sheff
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Author: Nic SheffEdition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-23
ISBN: 1433209357
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Book Reviews of Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Book Review: Poorly written, a shame.
Summary: 1 Stars
I didn't finish this book. Not because I wasn't interested in the subject, but because the writing left me frustrated. I found the author's repetition of the phrase "or whatever..." to be very distracting. The book seemed to have been published after only one draft, and I didn't care about any person in it. Another "quirk" seemed to be a kind of laziness in the writing (though, as we get to know the author's tastes and heroes, it is understandable). Some examples of this are his constant use of the word "some" after such statements as 'it had begun to rain, or he had stopped crying or vomiting'. The same goes for "things". The word seemed to end every list of objects in the book. To me, these are small problems that could have been fixed by an editor. Perhaps, all involved were trying to portray the author as a scrappy Gen-Xer with no time on his hands to tune up his work, instead of keeping the reader at a distance by creating muddy prose. Fine, but after a hundred pages of this sort of thing, it wears thin. Mr. Sheff lost me, and therefore, I learned nothing from his tale.
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