by Denis Johnson, Will Patton
Like Philip Seymour Hoffman in the movie Before the Devil Knows You're Dead but better. Writing in what some reviewers have called "hallucinatory" prose, Johnson loves these tender, broken men (and their women) beyond reasoning.
Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son is the strangest collection I have ever read. Even though they're stories, they're connected. The stories are narrated by a junkie, F.H. (not his real name, but in time you'll find out exactly what F.H. stands for). Stories begin and end without warning, almost giving the ...
Having just finished this on audiobook (compelled to do so by the recent New Yorker podcast reading and discussion of it), I am ready to start again at the beginning and listen again. So many great lines just dropped on you when you least expect it. Images I won't forget for a while - I hope.
Jesus' Son was a rather interesting read. The stories contained within the volume all appear related, yet there doesn't seem to be any order as far as the timeline goes. Then again, the stories are from the point of view of a "fucktard". Reading the praise on the back cover, given by various publica...
This is the funniest book in the universe, for a moment, then a page later it's unbearably sad. The story of drug addict told in electrifying prose. Short and powerful, highly recommended
This is the first thing I've read by Denis Johnson, and although I liked the writing, I wasn't completely taken by the book. I realize that the life of a drug addict (or the past as remembered by a recovering drug addict) can consist of a collection of disconnected mini-stories, and I appreciate th...
a collection of stories that often end too soon. I was actually afraid that the final story would provide no closure to the entire text and was happy to be wrong. there aren't many stories here that can stand on their own (even Emergency, one of the longest, feels incomplete). By the end, I'm not su...
I love this book. It's one of the best books I've ever read, and otherwise I'm not all that crazy about Denis Johnson. The scene in “Emergency” in which the man is mopping up the hospital floor and trying, or not trying, to explain what he's crying about pretty much sums everything up for me. I refu...
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