At the author’s request, I had a look, and while I mostly agree with everything Anna said in her review, I did find the writing to be somewhat more successful than she did—hence my higher rating. 

The narrative voice is very strong and present, which is a great thing.  However, it does tend to ramble on in a manic, drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness sort of way, and I repeatedly found myself skimming, in spite of the strong voice.  The narrator seems more interested in his own discourse than whether or not he is holding his audience, and, perhaps as a result, he failed to hold my attention fairly regularly.

That said, I found the individual pieces interesting—they certainly communicate a world that is utterly foreign to me, and I appreciate that.  But, I think they’d be more effective at half the length.

If you like manic, raw, underside-of-life vignettes written in a strong voice, it’s worth a look.

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