Cherry

The book is extremely easy to read, the pages just flow together. It brought me out of a year slump of not reading. Chapters are to the point, great read for someone with ADHD! It’s realistic and relatable. Filled with raw emotions of sorrow and humor. The portions that talk about the military are easy to read, even for those who haven’t served. Overall a fantastic book and eye opener to some, to others a relatable example of life.

The story of a young 19 yr old who is struggling to find himself, joins the army and does a tour in Iraq for a year 2005-2006. He’d been struggling over there with brutal depression anxiety and horrific panic attacks. He has friends send him oxycondone 80 mgs the last 1/2 of the tour and by the time he’s home it’s not long before he’s on heroin using needles with his codependent and dysfunctional ex wife. They’d met prior to his leaning for boot camp and married before his tour. They divorced immediately when he got home and found their way back to one another, both having severe heroin addiction. The things he does for the drugs and to keep them both high will have you stomach in knots. A lot of really graphic descriptions regarding their use and extremes they go to get it. If these graphically explosive type stories trigger you, then this isn’t the book to read. It’s HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY but it’s an exceptionally accurate look inside the day and a life of an addict. It’ll break your heart six ways to Sunday yet the author does such a remarkable job humanizing the main protagonist that you can’t help but hurt for him and feel the pain the anguish and how broken he is. You wish you could’ve climbed inside and held him for a little while. That feeling of worthlessness and darkness is just devastating for any soul to feel.

i really wanted to like this book but it was painful to finish. besides from the grammatical and punctuation mistakes, this author cannot write - there is no plot. just a stream of consciousness from someone who is mental ill. however, the movie is fantastic. while it might not be the exact same as the book, i think they told it in the most creative way and brings light to topics that society has ignored. very similar to the catcher in the rye, i didn’t like that book either because again no plot and just a stream of consciousness but it has been deemed a classic. so if you are into that kind of writing this could be for you, not me though.

Best acting from Tom so far.

The book was a bit different from the movie but the movie still had the major points and told the story. Sometimes taking quotes directly from the book. This book is very interesting and it is really a combination of all different types of books. It ranges from so much all while following the same character. A must read.

Stream of consciousness book where absolutely nothing happens

Best book in a minute. True sense of a writer who cannot write. But whose story tells it better than a genius at the type-writer. Gritty, true life accounts of desperation and what it means to be a slave to a chemical. It’s huckleberry finn on heroin with a military background and a monkey scratching on his back for a fix. I haven’t read anything this good in some time.

This was a great read.

Enjoyable as long as you like a glimpse into the void of apathy, indifference, despair and addiction told in incomplete sentences by a millennial. I couldn’t put it down.

Easy/quick read and very entertaining. I enjoyed it.