My point isn't that this guy should be let off the hook, but that other memoirists who twist the literal facts of their lives to give a skewed version of the underlying truth should get just as much scorn.
Probably... I think he deserves plenty, anyway -- partly because I think the "new of the weird" level luridness of his "true story" is what made it a best-seller and partly because I'm aghast at all the other addicts who are embracing his story (I haven't read his books, but looking at the reviews and blog entries in "drunkalogue" terms, I do NOT think it is OK to pretend that your unorthodox recovery methods got you out of crackheaded recidivism if that is simply not so).
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Date: 2006-01-11 09:58 pm (UTC)Probably... I think he deserves plenty, anyway -- partly because I think the "new of the weird" level luridness of his "true story" is what made it a best-seller and partly because I'm aghast at all the other addicts who are embracing his story (I haven't read his books, but looking at the reviews and blog entries in "drunkalogue" terms, I do NOT think it is OK to pretend that your unorthodox recovery methods got you out of crackheaded recidivism if that is simply not so).