Monday, October 17, 2011

Tweak- Nic Sheff

I finished reading Lucky, and over the weekend I read Tweak by Nic Sheff.
The story is a memoir of his life.
Its starts out by telling you about his life at a young age, when he started with the drugs.
He was about eleven, and he got drunk for the first time with a friend. After that, he started smoking weed. Everyday. He tells you how he smoked before school, during. after, all the time. Then, he occassionally started tripping acid and mushrooms on weekends. He started dating a girl named Lauren his senior year. They always did drugs together, and he was embarrassed to bring her home to his parents and didnt want people to know he was dating her. They broke up and he later heard that she was in rehab. Nic was sober for 18 months, he had a car, money and house again. He worked at a rehab facillaty.  He ended up running into Lauren again and they started hanging out again, sneaking around between their houses.
Nic met Zelda. She was a rich older woman, and they started hanging out. She was engaged, and slept around with Nic and they did drugs together. Thats when Nic started doing cocaine. Nic became very emotionally attached to her, and things between them ended. Thats when he met Akria. Akria offered him his first line of meth, and Nic took it. Right away he was addicted, like meth was what he was missing his whole life. Nic went crazy to get that high again. But everytime he did it it was never the same. He dropped out of college and his parents kicked him out. He would break into their house and steal money and his dads checks to pay for meth. He got a job at a coffee shop but stole hundreds of dollars, and ending up getting a possesion charge. He spent three years going in and out of rehab too. He mets a boy named Destiny on the street and they become friends. Nic buys him a beer and Destiny agrees to introduce him to a friend of his who sells speed. Nic starts smoking alot too at this time. He leaves Nic on the street to go talk to someone and thats when Lauren sees him. Thats when they start hanging out again and he gets into drugs again. Laurens parents go out of town and he stays there with her. Its a really good book and I recommend it completely!

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