Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir Kindle Edition

I'm fascinated by books about addiction, and was excited to dive into this one. I was really interested in hearing all the stories about the authors friends, lovers, and people along the way who influenced his life, but at times the story feels a bit rambling and off-topic. I wanted more about the details of the authors own addiction issues. There were more multi-page descriptions of the male body and the gay club scene than there were details about the addiction, how it really started, and key turning points. There are a lot more addiction details about those around the author than the author himself. Interesting read but I lost focus after a while.

The book was interesting. But at the same time was weird to me. I passed it along to the Narcotics Anonymous club in my town. I hope somebody enjoys it.

As a gay man, who grew up so close to his grandmother... Then went off to the big city with great dreams, then became a short lived tweaker.... No this book wasn't at all what I had expected. But when I wan't intensely reading, I was laughing, and when I wasn't laughing, I was crying. Thanks for sharing your stories.

I expected a different "Tweaked" book, there's alot out there... Odd to say I loved it, it opened a different "scene" or side (if you will) of this nightmare drug & addiction. The basic story line runs through them all. This was about love, loss, giving, understanding, helplessness, paranoia (ya think?), & stepping up & out & looking back. If you don't enjoy diversity in your book collection & overall reading - this isn't one to add. Read it twice early on. Probably would be worthy of another read every now & then.

As someone who has heard a lot about crystal meth but who has no experience with it, I turned to this book to develop an understanding of why crystal meth has affected gay men and influenced HIV transmission as much as it has. I did learn a lot from this book, though I thought I would learn more about how crystal meth affects the body and mind, how it clouds and mind and encourages unsafe sex, and there was not as much of that in this book. Though there were many scenes showing the damaging effects of crystal, and Moore did not seem to hold back in any way describing the negatives of his life on crystal. This is a good book worth the time.

I just feel like he grasped on to three relationships he had, and told you all he remembered about them. Mostly no drug use/lessons/hardships are in it. Also half the book is just descriptions of where he is and the people he is around.

I sent this to my incarcerated son trying to fill the $25.00 free shipping offer and had to choose something similar to "Beautiful Boy" and "Tweak" (great books, by the way!) since they only accept "self-help" books in some of the TDCJ facilities. He said it was a very strange book and was not too enthusiastic about it. I bought this book pretty much blind and it was not received very well.

This author is talented, but much of the verbiage is used up describing landscapes, and graphic gay sex, and the gay lifestyle. This is more of a sexual memoir then an addiction memoir. The title is blatantly misleading. He goes on and on about the nature of his physical surroundings until it makes you wonder if he is just trying to pad his book with words. If you do not enjoy such lengthy descriptions, or reading about graphic gay sex, this book is not for you.

I was hoping for some insight to have understanding of meth addiction. The protagonist was not very likeable. He was unkind to people without showing remorse. The story doesn’t flow nicely

More like a Gay Memoir. Not a lot of talk about Crystal, more about men. Eww.