Audio books
Nic Sheff Tweak Unabr 64kbps MakeGreatMusic net
Torrent info
Torrent Files List
Torrent description
Approx. 12 hrs. read by Paul Michael Garcia
Synopsis
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that
followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and
develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like
he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he
needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince
him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail
in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse
and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical
depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at
odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.
It's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope.
Annotation
For further information regarding Nic Sheff and his father David, check
out Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by
David Sheff.
Publishers Weekly
A memoir written in the present tense, Sheff's first book graphically
if self-indulgently recounts his addictions to various drugs, including
meth and heroin, and his attempts at recovery as he reaches his early
20s. His narrative begins as he relapses, not for the first time, after
18 months of sobriety, taking readers down an exhausting spiral that
includes a naïve attempt at dealing drugs; burglarizing his father's
house; hooking up with a vulnerable ex-girlfriend and calling 911 after
she overdoses; sleeping and shooting up in his car; and going back into
detox. The cycle then repeats, in all its minute details. Flashbacks
recall a privileged San Francisco childhood riven by divorce, youthful
promise and subsequent degradation (prostitution, stealing from his
young half-siblings). Nic's absorption in himself, often expressed as
self-contempt, makes much of his account read like a therapeutic exercise,
especially given its repetitious nature. While it's tempting to ask
if Nic's journalist father's version of the same events, in Beautiful
Boy(Nonfiction Reviews, Apr. 30, 2007), supplies the insights missing
here, this book's unmediated, down-and-headed-for-disaster sensibility
may, for some teen readers, produce the same transfixing quality as
a highway accident. Ages 15-up. (Feb.)
If you are not a member of MakeGreatMusic.net head on over today for your invitation so that you can grab this torrent and other great audiobooks,e-books, music sheets and other neat things for the musician. See you there!