I was able to finish the book within a single sit
and still, I am unable to cope with my thoughts to write the review as I am
totally shocked and confound. But I think this is the right time to compile my
thoughts.Frankly, I never felt empathy over a narcotist until I read Hysterical
Memories, the biography of Eugene Wallace. I am pretty sure this will change
your views against the narcotists’ community. Even though most of them are
struggling to beat the addiction the society is not let it happen.The true story
of the author Eugene Wallace is a must-read to anyone as it uncovers the hidden
life of a person who was addicted to drugs from his teenage and has drawn his
life to extraordinary chaos owing to the addiction. This is not a story of a
drug addict with a mental illness, this is a story of a child who
LOST LOVE, AFFECTION, CARING FROM HIS PARENTS, AND SOCIETY. Even more,
this reflects a young prisoner who was released from prison without having the
right direction to rebuild his life.“I was locked up for eighteen months then
they let me go, and then there was nothing, I had no life. I was living in a
doss house that stunk of cat’s piss with a mentally ill mother, as well as
poverty.”Once he was in the newspaper as the best student in the UK and later, he
was in the newspaper as a person with hysterical behaviors. What changed his
life so much? It is not because of drugs, but because of people who do not have
empathy over a drug addict victim.“… the college had awarded me the student of
the year award and gave me a silver plate, which I held up for the press to
take my picture. The headline said, Catering students hailed best in the UK. To
me, it was like I had suddenly become famous, as I knew everyone on the island
read the local paper called The County Press.”“I was in the local newspaper and
the cops wanted me badly for what I’d done to them.”The writing is simple and
fast-paced. The author portrayed his journey in a magnificent way by sticking
the reader to the narration. This short read will open a new viewpoint of life
arising a timely discussion that is crucial and indispensable
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