Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44458 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Glasgow Herald
`You will never read a more incisive account of addiction'

Independent on Sunday
`Uplifting, and life-affirming ... A darkly bright, hugely compassionate, and oddly redemptive story of loss and failure, guilt and addiction'

Ink
`Unflinchingly honest, beautifully written and utterly heartbreaking, The L.A. Diaries is a haunting and powerful tale of love and loss'

Customer Reviews

MUST READ!
This book was top class.

The book jumps back and forth and flows into different periods in the writers life and tells the story of his mixed up and down relationships with his Family and Alchol/Drugs. Its sad,funny and best of all true.

I loved this book and will keep it in my collection along with the greats(Kerouac/Bukowski/Hamsun/Fante &Co.) where it belongs. I think we can all even learn a little about ourselves by reading this book and our relationship faults with our own family members.

Beautiful Book!

A Little-bitti-tear
Yes, despite the no-mercy man-of-iron sweep & style, I found the tear forming behind my specs!!!!....couldn't put it down!!

A TRUE "MUST READ" BOOK
This is one of the best books I've ever read, and I've read a lot of books...
It is beautifully written, very moving and incredibly honest, but is also life-affirming and even funny. The chapter about the pig is hilarious.
I know you've been told this before but, honestly, you really must read this book.