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Diary of a Drug Fiend

Aleister Crowley

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 3014 Users | 124 Reviews

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Original Title:	Diary of a Drug Fiend
ISBN:	0877281467 (ISBN13: 9780877281467)
Edition Language:	English

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Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Crowley's first published novel. To the reader of 1922 it presented a shocking look at a little known phenomenon. Today, while we are more familiar with drugs because of their widespread use in our culture, Diary of a Drug Fiend remains one o fthe most intense, detailed and accurate accounts of drug addiction and the drug experience.

The book was written by Crowley after years of deep personal study and experimentation with drugs. It is the story of a young man and woman who fall madly in love and whirl through Europe in a frenzied haze of heroin/cocaine adventure. Their ecstacy is brought to an abrupt end when their drug supply is cut off and despair replaces joy. Through the guidance of King Lamus, a master Adept, they free themselves from the entanglements of addition by the application of practical Magick.

The narrative carries the reader aloft through the brilliance of the imagery created by this master of language; his prose development parallels the growth and increasing depth of his characters in an uncanny fashion. This is a book to be read and reread. It will also prove a useful document to doctors, lawyers, police and addicts for its unique and precise presentation of the psychology of addiction and the possibility of its cure through the development of the True Will.

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Title	:	Diary of a Drug Fiend
Author	:	Aleister Crowley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	June 1977 by Weiser Books (first published 1922)
Categories	:	Fiction. Occult. Classics

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Ratings: 3.67 From 3014 Users | 124 Reviews

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I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, I got this book because Aleister Crowley was super evil. You don't get the feeling of that from this book. It felt like quite an honest account of somebody addicted to heroin and trying to get off the drug. You can really feel the frustrations and pain of each narrator, more so from Peter than from Lou.Glad I decided to give this one a go.

Not only is this among the first* reasonably honest examinations of "recreational" drug use, the consequences of addiction, and an avenue toward treatment, it also serves as a good narrative introduction to Crowley's conceptions of both Magick ("the art and science of causing change in conformity with will") and Thelema (from the Greek word for "will," used to denominate his particular religio-philisophical system). The prose, while remarkable, is perhaps just a smidgen turgid and Victorianor

A wonderful book. It makes you wish Crowley was still alive and you could go to Thelema.

A man who has once experienced the drug-life finds it difficult to put up with the inanity of normal existence. He has become wise the wisdom of despair.

This is a novel about curing drug addiction with Magickal practices. When you need to snort a line of cocaine while flying your biplane over the English channel you know you have a problem. Is the solution in a free-love commune on an Italian island? The 20's never roared so loud as this.

Total dribble. Idiotic tales from an elitist dimwit adolescent. Entertaining "as hell."

What I learned: Flirting with cocaine leads to depravity with heroine. There are some truly vivid sense of desperation in this tale. I knew of Crowley from his occult works, but never suspected he had been a one-time junky. Very enlightening.