Hello everyone! Timfoolery is a true story and an autobiography/memoir. I hope you enjoy my review, and if this sounds interesting to you, you can purchase the ebook here. Also, I usually write the book description in my own words, but this one is a bit tricky so I am just copy & pasting from Amazon.
The book tells the story of a decade that embraces the ennui of being broke and homeless in Los Angeles, jetting in and out of clinics and treatment centers, shelters, and AA meetings. This Outsider is at odds with dealers, doctors with agendas, priests handing out redemption, creepy casting directors, and teachers with lessons too hard to learn. We encounter children at the door wanting only candy, getting more than they bargained for, enfeebled and enraged landlords and complex girlfriends-turned-escorts and Kafkaesque rabbits that rescue. An addict with a life-saving charm, the protagonist pulls scams, crashes social events, and impersonates employees - whatever it takes to impress, to ingratiate and to get the next fix. His refuge is the interior world of drug-induced fantasies poised on the precipice of a fall into real memory and the imminent loss and waste, the spectral accompaniment to the addled life of addiction; a phantasmagoria of layered symbolism and imagery in the production of a unique vision somewhere this side of reality.
I am very picky when it comes to memoirs. I usually like war stories and things of the like. (Scroll down and/or through my archives to find the couple memoirs I have reviewed.) This one is a bit different but it sounded very intriguing. You are probably wondering when the “but” will come. Here is is. I could not follow, understand, get into, etc. In fact, I did not read further than a few pages (which I do feel guilty about). It might have been I had a very short attention span at the moment, but I tried to get into this book several times and I couldn’t follow the author’s train of thought.
I’m sure it would be a great read if you can follow the writing style, but I couldn’t get into it. If you do try it, PLEASE tell me what you thought of it, I would really like to know how good the story is once you get to the meat. If you are interested, don’t forget to get your copy here!
The book tells the story of a decade that embraces the ennui of being broke and homeless in Los Angeles, jetting in and out of clinics and treatment centers, shelters, and AA meetings. This Outsider is at odds with dealers, doctors with agendas, priests handing out redemption, creepy casting directors, and teachers with lessons too hard to learn. We encounter children at the door wanting only candy, getting more than they bargained for, enfeebled and enraged landlords and complex girlfriends-turned-escorts and Kafkaesque rabbits that rescue. An addict with a life-saving charm, the protagonist pulls scams, crashes social events, and impersonates employees - whatever it takes to impress, to ingratiate and to get the next fix. His refuge is the interior world of drug-induced fantasies poised on the precipice of a fall into real memory and the imminent loss and waste, the spectral accompaniment to the addled life of addiction; a phantasmagoria of layered symbolism and imagery in the production of a unique vision somewhere this side of reality.
I am very picky when it comes to memoirs. I usually like war stories and things of the like. (Scroll down and/or through my archives to find the couple memoirs I have reviewed.) This one is a bit different but it sounded very intriguing. You are probably wondering when the “but” will come. Here is is. I could not follow, understand, get into, etc. In fact, I did not read further than a few pages (which I do feel guilty about). It might have been I had a very short attention span at the moment, but I tried to get into this book several times and I couldn’t follow the author’s train of thought.
I’m sure it would be a great read if you can follow the writing style, but I couldn’t get into it. If you do try it, PLEASE tell me what you thought of it, I would really like to know how good the story is once you get to the meat. If you are interested, don’t forget to get your copy here!