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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

9 reviews

addyson_raelynn's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I could not set this book down. I started it on a whim one night and finished it two days later. I read Beautiful Boy a couple years ago and absolutely loved it, and I feel the same about this book. My dad was an addict off and on from high school to his 30’s (I think?). He’s been clean and sober for many years now and I’m so proud of him, but since knowing and seeing his history, I have alway been curious and leaned toward reading books and consuming media about addiction. Tweak is hard to read. I think if you or someone you know has struggled with addiction, you can’t help but think about them when you’re reading stuff like this. But even still, this is genuinely one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. It’s so deeply honest. Nic is a phenomenal writer and artist. I admire him for telling his story without holding back. 
This is a long winded review, but this book is worth your time, if you’ve thought about picking it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit and Sexual content

taylorgraves555's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, and Addiction

Moderate: Cursing, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jessica_luvs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicide, and Abandonment

kather_doc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Self harm

joharrismay's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Nic Sheff is an amazing writer. I enjoyed his book and his fathers very much. Obviously they were hard to read knowing that happened to real life people. I wish they didn’t make this into a movie because people forget that Nic and David are actual people and they went through so much. This book did not hold back anything. It had so many difficult parts. This story is raw, emotional, tense, but also hopeful in a way. I recommend reading both books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Addiction, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Cursing

kipibookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Violence, Body horror, Mental illness, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

amize123's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

very well written, sad story but is a great read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

lacey_wi's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

shewantsthediction's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, and Racism