Читала на русском. Дальше спойлеры:Можно конечно спросить: «А почему вы вообще пробовали наркотики? Почему вы продолжали употреблять их достаточно долго для того, чтобы стать наркоманом?» К наркотикам привыкаешь, потому что в других сферах деятельности нет особо сильных желаний, привязок, стимулов, ...
Worum geht es? Nick Belsey ist nicht gerade eine Vorzeige-Polizist. Seine Spielsucht hat ihn soweit ruiniert, dass er sogar seine Wohnung verloren hat. Da kommt ihm der Tod eines Millionärs gerade recht, der es ihm ermöglicht, für einige Zeit dessen Haus und Kreditkarten zu nutzen, während er seine ...
enjoyed this,want more belsey! fucking great
maverick cop playing by his own rules but gets results, taken to its ultimate hilarious satirical extreme. so good loved it
A crackling and fast-paced introduction to a slightly scummy but oddly compelling anti-hero, DC Belsey. He's pretty much at the bottom of the barrel, nine lives used up and on his way out, when the book starts - and although it seems like it's just going to be another "cop who doesn't play by the r...
An excellent protagonist--John Rebus via James Ellroy or Patricia Highsmith. A bankrupt cop with few scruples but an overriding sense of curiosity happens upon an opportunity for a fiscal windfall, an escape hatch.... but that opportunity is bound up in a death that snags his interest. Mysterious ...
The best, and most truthful historical record of drug-use during the '40s. Burroughs is very truthful and stays very unbiased, telling of the ups and downs of everything, including Heroin. This may piss-off some one-sided people who are either very for- or against certain things. Burroughs tells it ...
This my favorite kind of Burroughs writing--edgy, raw, lyrical, honest, and experimental without going into Naked Lunch territory.
The best part was the Glossary. Did it need one? Am I lame to know jive talk?
This seems like appropriate reading material while I'm on vicodin.
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