The Adderall Diaries
A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder

Okay, first of all, Nine did a really good job with this book: [URL not allowed] The stupid story about me and this book is that, y'know the thing where folks were passing around advance copies of it? Stephen Elliott sent advance copies to folks, who got to keep it for a week,......more

By page 40 I was annoyed by the number of typos; OK, so that's a minor issue. Or is it? Maybe it's a sign of the complete lack of care that went into this book. I don't know -- there's so much hype about this guy, and at the halfway point in this book, I'm not finding him to be all that fantastic of......more

after: Okay, here's another quicky book review. This is a weird, rambly, disjointed book. Right before I started it, I signed up for the Rumpus email list, and if you've never read it, it's a daily dose of Stephen Elliott's weird, rambly, disjointed musings. So I pretty much knew what I was getting......more

3.5, rounded down. Although this is a quick moving and sometimes involving narrative, perhaps due to the influence of the titular substance on the author, it is not quite a rousing success. It seems like two ideas for a book somewhat awkwardly conflated into one Frankenstein-like creature: a quasi-me......more

(This review - or whatever it should be called - was originally written for The Skinny magazine in Scotland) Stephen Elliott is hooked on Adderall. It’s basically speed in a capsule, prescribed by his psychiatrist. He takes too much; sometimes he opens up the capsules and snorts the powder. Sometimes......more