Saturday, September 30, 2006
· posted at 10:20 AM
Grab on to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way.
Trudy asks do I wanna smoke a bowl.
"No way. That'd push me right over the edge."
"Into what?"
"Depression. Anxiety, Paranoia. Insanity, basically. One of those graves.."
"God, people are so weird," she says. "It's not drugs that make you that way, you know. It's the way we all already are."
Grab on to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, Bryan CharlesA coming of age tale that invites any reader who was a teenager mourning the loss of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. The prose is innovative in its stream-of-consciousness style to a point of distraction, but well captures the essence of young adulthood. Read it, or rather pick it up, if only for it's kick-ass cover.