Whats a good NOVEL that deals with DRUG Themes???????????

Question

I once read this book "SMACK" it was really great read and I was wondering if anyone knew any books in this genre. It fascinates me for some reason.....dont know why, wink wink. =)

Answer 1

A senior ambassadors club says William Shatners group of
authors covers the gamit of good magic potions for any number
of fantastic results.

Answer 2

The classic drug novel is Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, himself a junkie. Unbelievably, it was even made into a successful and unexpectedly comical movie in the '80s of the same title.

Go Ask Alice is a diary-style novel that tracks the descent and recovery of a suburban teenage girl not long after Woodstock. It, too, was made into a movie with Captain Kirk as the dad.

Howard Street, written by a prison inmate, is a very dark portrait of the infamous street in the woeful ghetto of Newark, New Jersey during the '60s.

Answer 3

1) Less than Zero......Written when the author was 20, this first novel tells the story of Clay, a New Hampshire college student who returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation. Vignettes show Clay and his friends aimlessly traveling from party to party, doing drugs, having sex with one another. PW noted that Ellis "brilliantly conveys this crowd's delirium as well as the lack of fulfillment they cannot remedy."

book made it to the screen...groundbreaking movie starting Morton Downney Jr., Andrew McCarthy and a sizzling performance from Jamie Gertz who has never been better. Awesome Soundtrack!! with the the Bangles starting off the movie with the first and most appropriate song...Hazy Shade of Winter...

2) The Morning After by Jack B Weiner...
A successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life.

There is a tv movie adaptation of the novel...
Dick Van Dyke in the performance of a lifetime....nails his character ...a PR man on his way to the bottom...right down to the very last scene...awesome and terrible...with the same name as book...

these are my two favorites

Answer 4

Blow - no matter how nice you are, you will end up unhappy in the drugs business. The film, based on a true story, follow George Jung who firstly sells marihuana and ends up part of Pablo Escobars cartel shipping tonnes of cocaine all over the world. George never really has any mental problems throughout the film until the end when you could argue he is going 'loopy' and envisions his daughter visiting him in jail. He loses everything in the end. Throughout the film he plays a loveable character who never really harms anyone directly and doesn't really harm anyone indirectly until he enters into negotiations with Pablo and his cartel.

Answer 5

Its kinda wierd, I would have assumed that someone would have mentioned " Drugstore Cowboy" written by a man who served several years in prison for pharmaceutical theft. Its all about a gang of addicts who drill holes in ceilings, (among other misdeeds ) of pharmacies for that elusive dilaudid fix. An intoxicating read. check it out

I believe it was also made into a film in the 80's starring Matt Dillon. could be wrong though..

Answer 6

"The Coldest Winter Ever," by Sister Souljah. The narrator, Winter Santiaga, grows up deep in the drug culture of New York City; her father is a major dealer.

Answer 7

The Man with the Golden Arm.

Answer 8

"A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey
"Junkie" William S. Burroughs

Answer 9

Clockers

Answer 10

"A Scanner Darkly" by Phillip K. Dick

Great sci-fi read that revolves around drugs and the drug culture.