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Title: Permanent Midnight : A Memoir by Jerry Stahl ISBN: 0-446-67218-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (37 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Jerry Stahl gets honest where most do not...
Comment: Not only is this book graphic, it kept me on the edge of my seat wanting this Heroin addict-Pill popping guy on a death wish to wake up and see his death of an existance! His attention to detail and long (But ever important) descriptions of his eventful drug induced lifestyle made me want to read this book from beginning to end. He portrays the realism that many of us went through and continued on in life as if it were the only way to live. I was very impressed and grateful to finally hear the "real" thing and not some candy-coated made for Hollywood drama. Forget the movie, this book has more than you will ever "See" at the theater. Read along and feel his pain and triumph.
Rating: 5
Summary: Energetic, irresistable, sexy, sad and funny
Comment: This is a most incredible book: Jerry Stahl manages to show us how disgusting and dangerous the life of a drug addict can be, and make us laugh out loud at the same time. I have never read a book that made me laugh and cry in turns. This book succeeds on several levels: as a cautionary tale against drug-taking; as a look inside the empty, meaningless 80's in Hollywood; at the life-altering experience of anti-Semitism (his childhood); as a testement to the redemtive experience of being a parent; and as a prime example ofhow to write a memoir. And frankly, I have to come back to my original point: the book is hysterically funny -- Jerry Stahl survived because he's big enough to be able to laugh at himself. Read it ASAP.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Start, Medium Middle, Slow Finish
Comment: Like many drug memoirs, Permanent Midnight starts off with a great premise: man is young, man is poor, man meets drugs, man falls in love with drugs, man gets sudden rush of money, man takes too much drugs, man learns to take too much drugs and still make money, man gets tired of taking too much drugs and making too much money, man moves to Arizona.
And like many drug memoirs the end is grueling and slow. Near the end of the book it seems the writer is thinking more about his paycheck than his work. But I would definetly buy this book just for the first 80%.
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Title: Plainclothes Naked by Jerry Stahl ISBN: 0060933534 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Perv: A Love Story by Jerry Stahl ISBN: 0688177875 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: I, Fatty : A Novel by Jerry Stahl ISBN: 1582342474 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 23 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title:Permanent Midnight ASIN: 6305260621 Publisher: Artisan Entertainment Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.48 |
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Title: Candy by Luke Davies ISBN: 0345423879 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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