The Book of Drugs
- Synopsis
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Solo singer-songwriter Mike Doughty was once the singer-songwriter of the 1990s alternative band Soul Coughing, but don't remind him. In this memoir, he describes his neurotic former bandmates and his own outrageous behavior with self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty. Behind the media spotlight and record company hype is a painfully insecure young man lying on wet pavement for hours for an MTV video shoot. Throughout his downward spiral to an unglamorous near-death from heroin, and his eventual recovery through 12-step programs and a mysterious rock legend, Doughty rarely sees himself as a rock star. "I was usually too high to pick up girls," he says. "Every night that I spent alone, cotton-mouthed, in a hotel room, I loathed myself for loneliness itself. " His travels in Asia and Africa are as much a part of his reconnection to his creative process as his recovery from drugs and alcohol. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780306820502
- Publisher:
- Da Capo Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/13/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Mike Doughty
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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Entertainment,
Nonfiction,
Art and Architecture,
Biographies and Memoirs
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- Bookshare Staff
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