Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines | 
| Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 532
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 1416913629
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.299092
EAN: 9781416913627
ASIN: 1416913629
Publication Date: February 19, 2008
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Condition: Dust cover has little tare that has been taped
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Product Description
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.
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 What a selfish author July 14, 2008
Alison M. Mcdonald (Toowoomba, Qld Australia)
OK, I read it (groan). He painted some lovely characters but didn't resolve them, I was left thinking it was all about him, and I gather meth recovery is selfish(from his book).
I only wish he would go back to college, study modern history and sociology, and really learn how to write. I feel a bit ripped off for buying and reading the book, I was not enlightened at all, nor did I warm to him. I am lying awake still thinking it was a huge name dropping exercise ... "Mum and Dad were journalists, I was so talented, I went to Europe, I was so smart I got into the best colleges blah blah blah and then I screwed myself up". There was no backdrop to any of it, he doesn't even seem to realise that people his age going off to war because they haven't had the opportunities he had and know no better ... when he does feel out of touch with the world he needs to hook up with movie reviews... WHAT!? I am bored with his empty sexual prowess. Then he wept on the beach in Hawaii... (admitted to having a prozac moment). There is a much bigger world than his introspective journey. I sound bitter, but I found the book really narrow and stunted.
 Honest and Hopeful July 13, 2008
J. Lamberto (Tampa, Florida)
This book was so honest and left me with hope. I thought he was a strong writer and I can not wait for his next work.
Fascinating trip down a very dark street July 7, 2008
BilMcReader (Mapleton, Iowa United States)
I read this book after reading "Beautiful Boy" and was eager to see what the other side of the story looked like. What Nic was experiencing was even more dreadful than his father imagined. Unlike other reviewers, I think Nic offers some insights, maybe tentative ones, into why he becomes an addict. As a former high school teacher and the teacher of a college class in young adult literature, I have to comment on the publication of this book by a young readers press. The book if legitimately and accurately full of drugs, sex, and very graphic language. I would suggest that school librarians be especially cautious before shelving this title. I defend the right of students to read this book and I think a lot will find this book interesting, but I am not sure it is written for them. I agree with other reviewers that the liveliest writing is in the drug use section. What more mature readers may see as appaling, younger readers might view as intriguing and inviting. As others have noted, Nic does seem to come out all right in the end. It may be a real challenge to make rehab as interesting as life on the street. I think this book would provide one valuable perspective for anyone who has to deal with those who are in the grips of addiction.
The road down the rat hole July 7, 2008
Suzanne Anderson (Placerville, CA)
Writing style clear and easy to follow. Some of author's insights were stunningly clear and appear honest. Sad and sickening was the realization of how many other people this addict/author has damaged, abused, destroyed, and otherwise taken advantage of in the process of his addiction.
A couple of times this reader got bogged down in the repetition of the author's days spent searching for, getting, and then using his drugs. The daily recitations became boring.
Worth a read to understand what goes on in the mind of an addict. Perhaps others can learn how better to protect themselves from the hell wroght by the addict. Perhaps not.
Tweak June 30, 2008
Charles G. Frisch
Having worked with many addicts, this book is an accurate portrayal of where addiction leads you. The author is lucky to be alive.
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