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Dreamseller (2008)

by Brandon Novak(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0806530030 (ISBN13: 9780806530031)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Citadel

review 1: A good addiction memoir of one of the most promising up and coming skaters degraded to total junkie.The book mainly focuses on his final breaking point on the streets which causes him to reform for good with a new profound sense of commitment and realization not recognized before. Chronicling almost a weekend or week of his life, each time it seems like his situation or desperation couldn't get any crazier it goes up another level.
review 2: I read Dreamseller over 2 years ago, because I was very much into Bam Margera and his lifestyle. I watched all of his movies, t.v. shows, and I have even listened to every last radio show that he has ever recorded through out the years. I grew up a Jackass fan at a young age (being the tomboy-princess that I was)therefore ... moreI was very much involved in the characters from the show/movies.I was listening to Bam's old radio shows and realized that they began mentioning Brandon Novak writing a book about his (at that time) 7 year battle with heroin addiction. And because of his hilarious antics and tendency to fall down drunk with his pants down, and the way he would "kick game" to bar flies that would - for whatever reason - go home with him for the night, I thought wow! I need to get my hands on that book.I looked up the book, and ordered it online through Amazon - I read the sucker within a week, loving every bit of it and adoring how in depth and descriptive he would explain the antics he used to get himself into. Every chapter was an "oh no" war story that left you wondering how ON EARTH could he do what he did and live his life that way for so long. He gives the best perspective of how a dope-head junkie really lives if he were balls to the wall, had nothing to lose except the ever necessary pull to cop another pill or rock.The very best part was knowing Novak well enough (as a fan of course) to know that none of it was a lie. Knowing that every story was an honest to God account of how things went for him. He has no reason to lie, and it did nothing but make the memoir even more read worthy. Yet because of that, it is hard to not feel a trigger coming on while reading this book.I still listen to Bam's radio show, and Novak is planning on yet another book, and I'm looking forward to it. I will most likely be rereading this book for years to come. It will remind me of the summer when I was 17 and looking for trouble in literature, films and music because it was when I discovered rebel art was the way to go. less

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