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Get Lit (All Summer Long): Win a copy of Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries
Graywolf, 244 pp., $22, September
Get Lit (All Summer Long): Win a copy of Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries
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| Graywolf, 244 pp., $22, September |
I was too busy finishing The Kite Runner (finally) last week to give any books away, and that's just selfish. So watch the Clog tomorrow for an additional Get Lit trivia game (I'll be offering up a copy of Michelle Huneven's Blame).
In the meantime, there's this: Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries: A memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder, which explores the author's drug dependency/writer's block/obsession with a real-life murder case. Yesterday, CP news intern Morgan Davis reviewed the book for our A&E blog, Critical Mass, and was none too pleased:
The premise of the book is exciting — a murder mystery as written through the memoir of an unrelated man. Elliott approaches the book with a clear idea of what he wants. He’s going to examine Reiser and Sturgeon and break apart the red herrings in the case (like Sturgeon’s outlandish murder confession), all while examining his own troubled life and making comparisons between the two. But the result, much like Elliott’s life, is more jumbled mess than brilliant exposé.
Throughout the book, Elliott feels unfocused on anything besides how miserable his life is. The story begins with Elliott’s childhood, setting the stage for turmoil with a tale about his lying, seemingly psychotic father. From there, the author jumps from mini-story to mini-story, telling about his troubled youth, his drug addictions, his self-destructive love life and lack of inspiration to write, all while occasionally throwing in something about Reiser’s trial. By the time you actually get to the play-by-play description of the trial, you feel like Elliott’s dragged you on a bad acid trip while watching his home movies.
Burn! But I think you should decide for yourselves.
Here's your trivia question:
What Arizona Cardinal received a four-game suspension as the result of using Adderall to enhance his performance?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win. And remember, there's always tomorrow.
[UPDATE, 1 p.m.]: Congratulations to Clog reader Liza C., who correctly answered that Ben Patrick is the Adderall-addled Cardinal.
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