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Nic Sheff

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I only remember the scenes where they watching Breaking the Waves and an old perv watches him piss
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Midway through Tweak, I found myself developing a strong aversion for Nic—his guileless self-destruction irked me. I don’t think leading a terrible lifestyle and writing about it equates to being a great artist, sorry.
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This book really kept my interest, mainly because Sheff wrote it in a very no-nonsense manner. You can tell that he recognizes that his addiction to drugs is a problem, but you can also feel his struggle as he tries to maintain a normal life. Having never done drugs myself, I find it impossible to completely relate to Sheff, but I can still understand the struggle that he had to overcome to find himself.

Had this paused for a while. I was hoping to read both Sheff memoirs, but I started this one and was not into it at all. So thought I'd do David's first and then return to this.

Haven't gotten to David's yet, but let's be honest, I probably won't finish this.

It wasn't bad. I just don't really like memoirs that are written entirely from the past POV. I prefer some present-day reflection mixed in. And apart from that, he really was not shying away from the gorey details of his addiction and it was honestly making me physically ill.

Glad he told his story and I'm so glad he's doing well in sobriety, but yeah. I'm good.