The Lost Weekend

Fantastic novel. The most acute portrayal of alcoholism I have ever read. Joins my alcoholic canon alongside John Barleycorn by Jack London, Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys and Factotum by Charles Bukowski. This book feels like a descendent of Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky and Hunger......more

"Η απάντηση δεν ήταν πουθενά, το ποτό ήταν παντού!". Οι κύκλοι της Κόλασης τελικά δεν είναι εννέα, όπως τους περιέγραψε ο Δάντης - είναι μόνο ένας, ο οποίος επαναλαμβάνεται αέναα. Όποιος εισέλθει σε αυτόν, δεν θα μπορέσει ποτέ να ξεφύγει και αυτό ακριβώς περιγράφει ο Τζάκσον στο μοναδικό του (ναι, ό......more

Books read back to back often resonate with each other. The Lost Weekend, I realized, overlapped greatly with my last book, Real Life. Both take place over one weekend. Both deal with anxiety, depression, and internalized homophobia. They are both novels of projection and self-absorption. The Lost W......more

I saw the movie decades ago, so it was good to get around to the book. The book differs somewhat from the movie. Apart from focusing on an unsuccessful writer rather than a successful one and having a homosexual thread they decided to leave out of the film, it has a different ending. I felt the cons......more

This book was quite the eye opener. I have never suffered from alcohol or drug addictions nor have I lived with anyone suffering from this sickness. Sickness it certainly is. How someone arrives at this state, I don't know. I'm sure there are a lot of different causes, both environmental and genetic......more