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julesgothebooks's review against another edition
2.0
În prezentarea cărții se spune, printre altele, că autorul consideră că „scrie propoziții” bine. Nimic mai adevărat. Asta mi-a plăcut din povestirile din antologie: fraze scurte, crâmpeie, imagini. Am înțeles c-ar fi ecranizată și aș fi curioasă să mă uit, pentru că există într-adevăr multă cinematografie între pagini. Nu am empatizat, însă, cu personajele, și nici cu modul dezlânat de narare - perfect legitim, dat fiind contextul, însă nu pentru mine, nu acum.
noodlesniebauer's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
loreoftheuniverse's review against another edition
dark
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
rienthril's review against another edition
3.0
Drug-addled American with angels and demons slugging it out inside, casting about the 60s or 70s or thereabouts, I don’t know. Years ago maybe I could’ve loved this for it’s objectively beautiful writing and could’ve told all my friends to read this alongside the Beats or something; but now? Now, I do not think we need any more stories of white American cowboy drug men doing whatever they want, bordering on the sociopathic and being passed off as antiheroes we can root for. We do not need any more rugged individualist stories of failure and salvation and failure again. It’s old, tired and toxic.
ericfheiman's review against another edition
5.0
So good, I read it twice. (It helped that I had a bunch of flights and only one book with me, but still...)
bookgqbook3's review against another edition
4.0
I love reading Denis Johnson and this is one of my favorite books by him. Love his prose and stories of failure and redemption. . . some stories are amazing and some are okay but that's how a collection goes . .
johndiconsiglio's review against another edition
5.0
Can Denis Johnson’s portraits of addicts & lost souls be rescued from hipster cannon? His voice was as original as Twain, as American as Whitman, as freeing as Kerouac & as batty as Burroughs. But a generation of writers maybe took a little-too-much inspiration from his heroin-hazed landscapes of car crashes, dive bars & ERs. (“And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.”) Did they miss his redemptive humor & compassion? “I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.”