The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.

Did not like this book

To be completly honest I have read alot of recovery books or books about addiction an I have never been so bored with a book. My thing with reading is even if its not the best book I will read it through but I couldnt even get through this book. I was so completely bored I stopped reading it half way through.

Disturbing

This book really shows the problems with drugs which is comparable to alcohol. Also shows if you don't stay away from them at any point you can fall back and start using again which will destroy your life as well as your children and spouse. Can't understand the need to even start but guess life is just too boring for some so they seek a thrill.

WHAT A GREAT BOOK!

David Carr's book offers great insight into a life that went terribly wrong, yet somehow turned out right. He acknowledges that he made a multitude of mistakes and didn't fully remember most of them. Going back to the people in his past and attaining their insight into his life must have been so cathartic for him. I didn't find that he wallowed in self-absorption. I believe his goal was to provide a lesson in what can happen if you have no self-constraint and no will to do the right thing on a daily basis. He came very close to self-destruction, teetering on the brink most of the time. Luckily, his amazing talent and his daughters saved him from a life on skid row. This book is well worth reading as a cautionary tale and, in the end, an ultimate testament to the power of self-determination.

Raw, funny and arresting

The Night of the Gun takes the reader on a bumpy road into the life of
a notorious junkie, father, excellent writer and a man who loves the chase of a good relationship with women but can't seem to make it last.
I'm always facinated by references to Minnesota and there are plenty here.
I now understand better what rules an addiction and the difference between
crack and coke. The most touching areas of the book are when he speaks of his kids, his sister and mom who are deceased. But perhaps my
favorite part is on page 334, when Carr talks about memory, fiction and
remembering..indeed something to think about it.

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