Reviews with content warning for Addiction - Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

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katerockreads's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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spacecadetjess's review

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emotional medium-paced

5.0

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lilyvertrees's review

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dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

This book was a lot better than the dad's book Beautiful Boy, and it gave a lot of insight of what the life of a drug addict is really like. Its so horrible to watch Nic destroy his family and his own life, then build it back up, then destroy it again. Emotional rollercoaster

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chandle5's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

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annatolan's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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arabellag_13's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced

3.0

I found this book really interesting it shows a raw and honest reality of what people with addiction go through, however the writing is pretty shit and coming from a author who in the book talks about how good he is at writing it's pretty ironic. It especially stood out how weak his writing was when after I read beautiful boy from his fathers point of view. Much better writing, a lot more interesting and more emotional.

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vijethayc's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

4.75

What can I say? This was a wild, crazy ride.

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smiller's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

This books content is quite dark and is more for a person who has not been through addiction than one who has. If you are in recovery I don’t think this is the book for you because it might be triggering in certain sections. On the other hand, if a friend or family member has had trouble with substance abuse and you want to understand their situation this book is a great beginning for that.

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beetsnotbombs's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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shewantsthediction's review against another edition

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2.0

Well that was mostly a waste of my time.

Nic somehow manages to be both sympathetic and infuriating in this book - sympathetic because he has bipolar disorder and feels like a raw, exposed nerve all the time; he's so sensitive he feels he needs to dull his feelings and quiet his mind with drugs, which is definitely relatable. But he's also infuriating because of his repetitive, spiraling thought patterns and the way he describes other people. Most women are either "fat" or "wearing too much makeup" - except for the ones he finds attractive, of course. There's also some ableist/racist things in here - one of his friends uses the "r slur" and he describes a Black woman as "masculine-looking," which is just a tale as old as time.

He's also your typical privileged person and just thinks some very nasty thoughts about other people in general. Still, I respect that he at least owns his dickishness - it almost makes you like him a little. Oh and he's also a writer, who of course idolizes a bunch of other white male writers. The only ones I can remember right now are Charles Bukowski and George Miller, but you get the picture.

He writes decently - his sentences are punchy, short, with a staccato rhythm that I think fits the topic well. He has a bad habit of tacking on "and things" or "and stuff" to the end of his sentences, though. My personal opinion is that he needed a harsher editor on this. The book is way too long and the escapades are similar enough that they could've been easily condensed. A lot of him getting high/sober/relapsing over and over again is just repetitive and not very interesting past a certain point. Like I understand it's a story about addiction, but ultimately it's unsatisfying because

we never get closure with the girlfriend he has in the second half of the book, Zelda, or any of his friends. He also never gives us his final thoughts on the whole "god" ordeal he was sweating over the whole book.

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