The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
5 Rating(s)
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The Adderall Diaries
A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder

Author: Stephen Elliott

Narrator: Jason Butler Harner

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/21/2012


Synopsis

In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as " a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you' ve never quite seen it before."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Imogen on November 29, 2009

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

Goodreads review by Aurelia on January 31, 2010

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

Goodreads review by Oriana on December 05, 2010

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

Goodreads review by Doug on October 05, 2019

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

Goodreads review by Nine on August 27, 2009

(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