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I crush up my pills and snort them like dust. They are my sugar. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. They drip through me like tupelo honey. Then they are gone. Then I need more. I always need more.
For all of my life I have needed more.
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth Wurtzel published her groundbreaking memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, at the tender age of twenty-six. A worldwide success, a cultural phenomenon, the book opened doors to a rarefied world about which Elizabeth had only dared to dream during her middle-class upbringing in New York City. But no success could staunch her continuous battle with depression. The terrible truth was that nothing had changed the emptiness inside Elizabeth. Her relationships universally failed; she was fired from every magazine job she held. Indeed, the absence of fulfillment in the wake of success became yet another seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
When her doctor prescribed Ritalin to boost the effects of her antidepression medication, Elizabeth jumped. And the Ritalin worked. And worked. And worked. Within weeks, she was grinding up the pills and snorting them for a greater effect. It reached the point where she couldn't go more than five minutes without a fix. It was Ritalin, and then cocaine, and then more Ritalin. In a harrowing account, Elizabeth Wurtzel contemplates what it means to be in love with something in your blood that takes over your body, becomes the life force within you -- and could ultimately kill you.
More, Now, Again is an astonishing and timely story of a new kind of addiction. But it is also a story of survival. Elizabeth Wurtzel hits rock bottom, gets clean, uses again, and finally gains control over her drug and her life. As honest as a confession and as heartfelt as a prayer, More, Now, Again recounts a courageous fight back to a life worth living.
For all of my life I have needed more.
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth Wurtzel published her groundbreaking memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, at the tender age of twenty-six. A worldwide success, a cultural phenomenon, the book opened doors to a rarefied world about which Elizabeth had only dared to dream during her middle-class upbringing in New York City. But no success could staunch her continuous battle with depression. The terrible truth was that nothing had changed the emptiness inside Elizabeth. Her relationships universally failed; she was fired from every magazine job she held. Indeed, the absence of fulfillment in the wake of success became yet another seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
When her doctor prescribed Ritalin to boost the effects of her antidepression medication, Elizabeth jumped. And the Ritalin worked. And worked. And worked. Within weeks, she was grinding up the pills and snorting them for a greater effect. It reached the point where she couldn't go more than five minutes without a fix. It was Ritalin, and then cocaine, and then more Ritalin. In a harrowing account, Elizabeth Wurtzel contemplates what it means to be in love with something in your blood that takes over your body, becomes the life force within you -- and could ultimately kill you.
More, Now, Again is an astonishing and timely story of a new kind of addiction. But it is also a story of survival. Elizabeth Wurtzel hits rock bottom, gets clean, uses again, and finally gains control over her drug and her life. As honest as a confession and as heartfelt as a prayer, More, Now, Again recounts a courageous fight back to a life worth living.
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I crush up my pills and snort them like dust. They are my sugar. They are the sweetness in the days that have none. They drip through me like tupelo honey. Then they are gone. Then I need more. I always need more.
For all of my life I have needed more.
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth Wurtzel published her groundbreaking memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, at the tender age of twenty-six. A worldwide success, a cultural phenomenon, the book opened doors to a rarefied world about which Elizabeth had only dared to dream during her middle-class upbringing in New York City. But no success could staunch her continuous battle with depression. The terrible truth was that nothing had changed the emptiness inside Elizabeth. Her relationships universally failed; she was fired from every magazine job she held. Indeed, the absence of fulfillment in the wake of success became yet another seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
When her doctor prescribed Ritalin to boost the effects of her antidepression medication, Elizabeth jumped. And the Ritalin worked. And worked. And worked. Within weeks, she was grinding up the pills and snorting them for a greater effect. It reached the point where she couldn't go more than five minutes without a fix. It was Ritalin, and then cocaine, and then more Ritalin. In a harrowing account, Elizabeth Wurtzel contemplates what it means to be in love with something in your blood that takes over your body, becomes the life force within you -- and could ultimately kill you.
More, Now, Again is an astonishing and timely story of a new kind of addiction. But it is also a story of survival. Elizabeth Wurtzel hits rock bottom, gets clean, uses again, and finally gains control over her drug and her life. As honest as a confession and as heartfelt as a prayer, More, Now, Again recounts a courageous fight back to a life worth living.
For all of my life I have needed more.
A precocious literary light, Elizabeth Wurtzel published her groundbreaking memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, at the tender age of twenty-six. A worldwide success, a cultural phenomenon, the book opened doors to a rarefied world about which Elizabeth had only dared to dream during her middle-class upbringing in New York City. But no success could staunch her continuous battle with depression. The terrible truth was that nothing had changed the emptiness inside Elizabeth. Her relationships universally failed; she was fired from every magazine job she held. Indeed, the absence of fulfillment in the wake of success became yet another seemingly insurmountable hurdle.
When her doctor prescribed Ritalin to boost the effects of her antidepression medication, Elizabeth jumped. And the Ritalin worked. And worked. And worked. Within weeks, she was grinding up the pills and snorting them for a greater effect. It reached the point where she couldn't go more than five minutes without a fix. It was Ritalin, and then cocaine, and then more Ritalin. In a harrowing account, Elizabeth Wurtzel contemplates what it means to be in love with something in your blood that takes over your body, becomes the life force within you -- and could ultimately kill you.
More, Now, Again is an astonishing and timely story of a new kind of addiction. But it is also a story of survival. Elizabeth Wurtzel hits rock bottom, gets clean, uses again, and finally gains control over her drug and her life. As honest as a confession and as heartfelt as a prayer, More, Now, Again recounts a courageous fight back to a life worth living.
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The book is about the feelings of a narcissist entitled lazy bum. It tries to convince the reader that her problems come from drugs, depression or family, but actually it's a question of lack of character.
she does what she wants to do because she can (the definition of a jerk), because she is cute, and because she is a woman in a feminist culture that will idolize any mediocre crap coming from a girl. They need female idols, even if all they can do is talk about crap American pop culture trinkets.
That's the only good side of the book, it exposes the frivolity, emptiness and self-serving attitude of American editorial and "cultural" circles.
Rating: 2she does what she wants to do because she can (the definition of a jerk), because she is cute, and because she is a woman in a feminist culture that will idolize any mediocre crap coming from a girl. They need female idols, even if all they can do is talk about crap American pop culture trinkets.
That's the only good side of the book, it exposes the frivolity, emptiness and self-serving attitude of American editorial and "cultural" circles.
First Prozac then addiction... will she get a horrible disease for her next book? Try anorexia / bulemia? Domestic violence? One book is believable; two is pushing it.
Rating: 1This is a compelling read, but I can't really claim that it's much different and no more interesting than other books on addiction and recovery that I have read. To tell the truth, I'm tired of them, confessional then redemptive, with a lot of drama in between. Predictable structure and nature of the drunkalogs. Yawn. The best thing about this book is the author's sure, confident voice.
Rating: 3
This book kept my attention from beginning to end. I recommend this book. It definitely explains that drug roller coaster that is so difficult to get off because of the illusion that you're actually going somewhere in life and career all thanks to the drug, but in reality, you're going no where, but in circles like the title "More, Now and Again."
Rating: 5This author knows about a million words, I had my dictionary out the whole time... Aside from that, sometimes Elizabeth seems to be trying to convince herself that she really IS smart, pretty, etc. Still, an excellent memoir and deep look inside the mind and heart of an addict. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject, others might find it insufferable. At times it's hard to differentiate between her candor and ego, though. Loses one star because of too much wordiness, although I would highly recommend it to recovering addicts.
Rating: 3I related to both of Wurtzel's memoirs (this, and Prozac Nation) more than anything else I've read on depression/addiction. It's so close, it's almost like looking in a mirror. While she can come across as egotistical as time, she doesn't hide some of the awful things she's done during her battles with depression and addiction.
Rating: 5I forgot what an amazing writer Elizabeth Wurtzel is. Even describing herself at her worst, she manages to write honestly and beautifully, in a way that makes you just want to keep turning the pages, find out what other amazing thing she's going to say. As I read I realize that so often she isn't someone I'd want to be around, but I can't put her down.
Rating: 5At first, I didn't enjoy this book as much as Prozac Nation, which was raw and gripping. However, midway through, I became attached yet again to Wurtzel and I wondered how things would turn out and was rooting for her. At first she appears to be whiny and selfish. But the secret to her writing is that she get the reader to feel how depression or addiction really feels.
Rating: 4