Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

Beautiful Boy is beautifully boring. Actually not really (but sort of) ... It isn't what I thought it would be, which as disappointing.

It is more about the actual processes of addiction and drugs than about the Sheff's family. Don't get me wrong there are many passages about what goes on in the family and about Nic's addiction and behavior as a result of it but nothing extremely captivating.

You don't get the same vivid picture that Nic paints in his memoir, Tweak. David Sheff's book can often be repetitive and move along slower than a dead snail. Once you get past all the non-essential information and get down to the real gritty details of this family's story on addiction the book becomes worthwhile.

I can't really recommend this book as it didn't' captivate me and I was essentially annoyed at the blame being placed on being a product of divorce rather than a product of being so lame as to try drugs in the first place.

Grade: C-