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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own
by: David Carr
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.860092
EAN: 9781416541523
ISBN: 1416541527
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 05, 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Sales Rank: 5068
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Rating:  - Carr
This book is Carr's journey back into his life as a drug addict based on interviews with current and former friends. Carr is currently a successful journalist for the New York Times but, prior to that, he was a major drug user who accidentally got a girl pregnant and wound up the primary custodian of twins. He went in and out of rehab multiple times, eventually remarried, and came clean. Just when things were looking up he was diagnosed with cancer, which he eventually beat.
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Rating:  - Well, I certainly don't see much worth getting...
...excited about...a reformed alcoholic and drug addict shares his history...my biggest objection is that everything was so predictable -- twenty pages in and I knew pretty much how the rest would turn out...my next objection is that it is terribly overwritten -- e.g. descibing addction as "more like possession, a death grip from Satan that requires supernatural intervention."...sorry, but that's just trying too hard and so much of the book sounds like something gleaned from a collection of amateur ... Read More
Rating: - Intriguing Premise but a little dry
The idea of this book is that the author is writing an in-depth study into his own life. I found it rather interesting that he remembered so little of the details that he undertook an investigation process to get the complete story. Thus, he revisited all of the colorful characters that he ran into during his train wreck of an existence, who sometimes had much different recollections than the author did himself.
What is good about the book: The author doesn't sugar coat his wrong doings ... Read More
Rating: - an eye-opener for the non-addict
If you're not a drunk or a crackhead, this book can help you understand their world. No doubt you know one, or even have one in your family: the person who throws away jobs, marriages, and even children in order to feed their habit. It's really, really hard to understand how this happens, and really upsetting to watch somebody self-destruct in this way. David Carr is an unusually articulate and self-aware addictive personality, and this book is sort of a guide to the underworld of the addict's life.
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Rating: - Didn't I read this already?
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't read this book. I tried, but I kept thinking "haven't I read this story before?" Sure, Carr tries to put a new twist on it, but it didn't do it for me.
Why'd I give it three stars when I couldn't even read more than a few chapters? Well, I admit to having a totally subjective, visceral reaction. I did not care. I couldn't bring myself to care.
But, others have enjoyed this book and I don't want to put anyone off. Is that helpful? I don't know. And since ... Read More
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