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    The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
    The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
    The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder

    Written by Stephen Elliott

    Narrated by Jason Butler Harner

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    About this audiobook

    In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as " a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you' ve never quite seen it before."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 21, 2012
    ISBN9781470334697
    The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
    Author

    Stephen Elliott

    Stephen Elliott is the author of the political memoir Looking Forward to It, the novel Happy Baby, and the story collection My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. He lives in San Francisco.

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    • 3/5
      Well-written and generally interesting, especially the material surrounding a hi-tech murderer. I found the personal memoir portions too at turns evasive and guarded—and hella tightly controlled—though it did have some effective “my heart laid bare” moments. (I’m not sure how a book can be a memoir AND a diary—and written in present tense, no less). Seems to me the priorities were mixed up: the adderall was the least interesting aspect, and I didn’t find the sell-analysis about his masochism particularly enlightening. On this latter point, I think it was the weakest aspect of the book. He was too willing to let much of his unusual behavior remain mysterious and poetically vague. I think he needed an editor to push him more to take it to the next level (this is where the “diary” element feels like a crutch to lower expectations). And there were a fair number of cheap shot aside comments (cultural, political, social) that struck me as spurious, or, at the very least, exaggerated. These kinds of comments can undermine the credibility of his more personal observations. At times I had to wonder if the author trusts his readers. Should we trust him? I do respect the fact that he questioned the veracity of his own memories, something a lot of memoirists seem to avoid (and part of the reason I prefer fiction). Mostly, I enjoyed the way it was written, but I wanted to like the book more than I was allowed to. I haven’t read anything else by the author, but I would check out his fiction. Perhaps the strictures of non-fiction are what kept him from cutting too deep.

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