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Never Enough: A Way Through Addiction
'This book could save your life' John Crace
'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven
'A rich, uplifting Hoskyns portrays how painful inadequacy, masked by drugs, can be replaced by the messiness of ordinary life' Oliver James
A few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroin. From that moment on, for the next three years, Hoskyns is hopelessly hooked. This is the searingly honest story of what brought him to this place - and how he got himself out of it.
Barney Hoskyns is one of the leading music writers of our his books have ranged the musical landscape from Led Zeppelin to Tom Waits, from Laurel Canyon to Woodstock. His articles have appeared in NME , Melody Maker , Rolling Stone and Vogue , and in 2000 he founded Rock's Backpages.
Hoskyns beautifully describes the relationship between music and addiction, between love and infatuation. Never Enough is Hoskyns's raw, uncompromising and utterly compelling account of the highs and lows of life under the needle. Interspersed with photos and diary entries, Hosykns examines why he so willingly gave himself up to the death-grip of heroin, and what it took to finally free himself from it.
'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven
'A rich, uplifting Hoskyns portrays how painful inadequacy, masked by drugs, can be replaced by the messiness of ordinary life' Oliver James
A few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroin. From that moment on, for the next three years, Hoskyns is hopelessly hooked. This is the searingly honest story of what brought him to this place - and how he got himself out of it.
Barney Hoskyns is one of the leading music writers of our his books have ranged the musical landscape from Led Zeppelin to Tom Waits, from Laurel Canyon to Woodstock. His articles have appeared in NME , Melody Maker , Rolling Stone and Vogue , and in 2000 he founded Rock's Backpages.
Hoskyns beautifully describes the relationship between music and addiction, between love and infatuation. Never Enough is Hoskyns's raw, uncompromising and utterly compelling account of the highs and lows of life under the needle. Interspersed with photos and diary entries, Hosykns examines why he so willingly gave himself up to the death-grip of heroin, and what it took to finally free himself from it.
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Published January 26, 2017
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
June 11, 2017
Absolutely not at all what I was expecting.
The first half was broken-man memoir, belonged in Literary Biography; the second half philosophical musings on existence and addiction, heavy on the references, belonged in A-Z Philosophy.
It was a pleasant surprise.
3.88
The first half was broken-man memoir, belonged in Literary Biography; the second half philosophical musings on existence and addiction, heavy on the references, belonged in A-Z Philosophy.
It was a pleasant surprise.
3.88
May 7, 2019
i don't personally understand much of it, it's more like a diary
July 6, 2021
Quite possibly one of the best addiction memoirs I've ever read in my life
January 14, 2020
Superb!
August 2, 2022
Completely self-absorbed tedium. A shame as I have enjoyed his music writing.
December 13, 2023
An excellent book, I found it very inspirational and so many sentences just made me pause and think. Even if you don't have an addiction, this is an engaging and worth-while read.
March 15, 2024
A good insight into living with and overcoming addiction
March 20, 2017
Excellent read, Barney Hoskyns is my favourite music writer by a long way and his personal story here is gripping. And where else could you get quotes from Primo Levi and Judee Sill on the same page?
February 28, 2017
Excellent. Couldn't have read such a book at a batter tine in my life. Lights the proverbial fire under the ass for myself
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