Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir, (Paperback)

from jimocracy

For the subject matter, this book was fairly boring. The author did a decent job telling his personal story about drug addiction but he did not make me particularly care too much about him our his messed up life.

from Jackie.the.Librarian

This book was like crack to me. I couldn't put it down, but I found myself repulsed by the very substance I couldn't resist.

from tayari

This book was pretty engaging. There is a train-wrecky appeal and Clegg is pretty good with phrase. (I especially liked it when he described a woman's accent as "tricky.") I would have liked it better if he had really reflected on the way his race/class kept him out of jail. While I was really fa...

from noah

Clegg's first book reads like a confessional. "Portrait" is a first-person account of the hell of a full-blown crack addiction, interspersed with shorter scenes from the narrator's childhood written in the third person. This device, while effective, is a bit rocky at first. Unfortunately, the chi...

from BiZMamma

A friend of mine passed along her copy of this book to me, and I was hooked pretty quickly. Ok, bad pun for this particular story, which is (like the title says) about an addict. This world feels so foreign to me, but Clegg's writing captured my interest. Some parts are clear, concise prose, and ...