Memoir of a Modern Opium Eater
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1589610652 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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The unbearable likeness of being - in a drug way While I've never messed with drugs myself, reading books like this one can really see why a person would yield to them. Mic, the narrator, is a character that you feel is constantly looking for something with real meaning in this world, finding it, then losing it. And with the perpetual losses, as he puts it, he feels he has no choice when he suddenly discovers a way of "charming away those phantom bogeys that beset me." Since the very first part of this book (the "prelude") the sense of loss leaps out at you. While it's subtle at first, talking about parents and growing up in a neighborhood where he has no friends, Mic gr. Creepy, intelligent & NOT like anything else ever A Customer I can sum up this book by saying that it's as if you took a twenty something year old guy off the streets, crammed his head with about a thousand literary references from like recent poetry to plays in ancient german and Italian, then had him sit down to a typewriter and tell an extraordinary story about becoming an opium addict in 21st century america. While checking out books about heroin, I came across this title in my local bookstore. The title stuck in my mind, and by the next night I found myself ordering it here online. When I got it I expected to read a couple chapters a day but wound up reading the whole thing in . Enticing One Of Those Books That I Could Review And End Up Ruining For You But I Wont. It:s Truly An Experience Once You Are In The Story And Dont Know How You Got There.
The Memoir isn't simply another superficial, shocking look at the drug culture, but a serious sociological and philosophical narrative. Carter, March, 2003. -- William C
De Quincey being well known in his time for his intensive analysis of the subconscious (and opium's hypnotic power over its focus - for good or for ill), these salient aspects lie also at the heart of the Memoir, here retold to a modern audience in metaphorical parallels and a carefully crafted modern vernacular.. Tagging along with him on his journey from "like age naught" through to early adulthood, the reader shares in the narrator's poetically narrated opium-induced ecstasies as well as his nauseatingly vivid descriptions of addictive horrors revealed in the book's final section, "The House of Pain." As if this book's scenes were not fantastic enough, or its prose not ablaze with linguistic and intellectual fervor, the author makes the complexity of the Memoir all the more incredible by structuring its very plot line and scene sequence on that of Thomas De Quincey's original 1821 classic work, Confessions of an English Opium Eater. In the tradition of the semi-fictionalized confessional such as James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, McVea's Memoir tells the allegorical story of the modern Opium-Eater: a personality plagued by repetitive mnemonic traumas, redeemed by an