![]() Nic knew at a young age that life isn't always the greatest, but you make do with what you have because when you least expect it, life can be absolutely beautiful. He's not like other parents who try to make their kids believe that everything's so great if you do this and you do that. ![]() I love how Nic's father was so open with his son. Different families have different ways of raising their children. I remember him writing about how him and his father used to go on walks together and his father would snuggle him up in his long trenchcoat.they obviously had a very close relationship. And to say that throughout some of the book, he's putting the blame on other people is wrong and you've obviously misunderstood. This is Nic's true story, of growing up on Meth, and unless you have also overcome such a drug, it's not your place to call him a horrible, pathetic person. I don't mean to put down other people's opinions but you all are being incredibly harsh. I am *only* giving the book one star so that the poor rating gets added to the average. It is so poorly, terribly and arrogantly written that it makes me seethe with anger. I have never in my reading history stopped reading mid-sentence, closed the book, hunted in the trash for the receipt and returned it. I would so much rather read a story about a street kid drug addict who has a *real* story - someone who didn't grow up knowing famous people and having money or brand names. ![]() This isn't an illustration of a life on drugs. It angers me that this kid got a book deal because he has connections and has a marketable "story," because if this book is supposed to be insight into the drug addicted mind, it fails miserably. The kid, Nic, is just one more selfish, entitled kid (who brand-name and name drops excessively) who goes down a wrong path and has a family to keep picking up the pieces for him, giving him chance after chance. The schtick is a pretty good one - the drug addicted son writing his version and his father writing his own version, but the execution is just awful. I wish to God that Goodreads had a category or designation for THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ, because this would definitely be in it. It's a harrowing portrait-but not one without hope. As we watch Nic plunge into 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. 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. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. ![]() Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery. The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
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