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Futureproof: A Novel (2009)

by N. Frank Daniels(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061656836 (ISBN13: 9780061656835)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: I read a lot of books about vice. Specifically books about drug/alcohol use and abuse. Stories about people getting fucked up are always interesting on a very basic level. Addicts fall in love with their addictions and the various depictions of the love affairs can be fascinating. But there is something else about writers who are in love with their addictions that drives me fucking crazy. It's their constant attempts to prove that they are something more than their addiction. That their existence is justified and that in fact their abuse is an attempt to act out against an oppressive world and isn't really an issue with them at all. Guess what guys, no one gives a shit. I'm not reading your novel to hear your views on poverty or genocide in Africa, nor do I give a shit abo... moreut your stance on parenthood. I'm reading your book because it's fun to read about the fucked up things people do when they are FUBAR. You're not important or special or noticeably intelligent. You just happen to like sticking needles in your arm. I like drinking Miller Lite but you don't see me waxing philosophical about it. Once again this is where HST stands apart from other writers who attempt to capture drug use in prose. Drugs are a comedic, if nihilistic, character for HST. He makes no apologies for his relationships with them and doesn't give you any reason or desire to pity him for his choices. Anyway, the book was enjoyable even if the semi-autobiographical main character wasn't. Plus it was self-published which I give the dude big props for.
review 2: The first 30 or so pages of this book led me to believe it would be an average coming-of-age novel, but it certainly was not. The narrator quickly spirals down into poverty (not that he was rich before) and many, many drug addictions. Normally I am not into drug books but I did like this one because I grew attached to the main character. He never lost his awareness of what his addiction was doing to him even as he became ever more powerless to stop it. Overall, it didn't change my life or anything, but I liked it. less

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