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The First Truly Entertaining Book on Literary Criticism, April 28 2003
This review is from: The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Hardcover)
Where did this guy Marcus Boon find the time to research all these facts? Amazing collection of the serious and the hysterical. He has definitely studied his area thoroughly. A perfect addition to the political/social/cultural issues of the times. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the involvement of drugs with creativity. Good read. You will definitely have a new must-read list after you're done with this book.
I'd buy another book by the same author.
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Roads of excess lead to plentudes of literary epiphany &, May 9 2004
This review is from: The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Hardcover)
and cautionary fabula, in this fabulous 'palace of ruin' erected on an archive of research into the "technologies" of self-transformation via meandering comp-lit drenched chapters on opiates, anesthetics, cannibis, stimulants, and psychedelics. I found the one on "stimulants" and their Balzacian and Beat-poetic uses to be the most helpful for writers, but it is of much spiritual use as well to follow dopers and philosophers down their alleyways and bagpipes of transcedence whether on the Hegelian laughing-gas of William James of the hashish-epiphanies of Baudelaire-the-capitalist-priest. This is a splendid book worthy of post-60's vision and commitments to transformation, gracias and onward: "Plato! Jesus! Kant! Blood! Boon! Deleuze!"
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