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Title	:	Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Author	:	David Sheff
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	media tie-in
Pages	:	Pages: 340 pages
Published	:	September 4th 2018 by Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.

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Original Title:	Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction
ISBN:	1328974715 (ISBN13: 9781328974716)
Edition Language:	English

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Finally. I. Am. Done.I swear this book took me a month to read. Maybe longer. I just could not get into it. I read the companion, Tweak, written by his son, and I thought it would be interesting to hear the other perspective. Blah. What started as an article for The New York Times Magazine, the overwhelming response prompted Sheff to write a whole book. Bad idea. It was obviously stretched beyond it's means, and Sheff often relied on random quotes from movies and songs to fill space. I would

This is a grueling and sad account of a family torn apart when a beloved son with a promising future becomes addicted to alcohol and meth (one of the worst of all drugs because it permanently alters your brain). I read this after watching the grueling and heartbreaking movie of the same name. I am again filled with sadness for all of them. Why did I do this to myself?! Now I'm off to listen to the son's account because I crave more torture, apparently.

The writing was good, but I couldn't stop thinking that rich people are very lucky. Thier kids can be drug addicts and not go to jail. It would have been better if the author had really acknowledged that.

One of the best books dealing with addiction I've ever read. It makes you feel fear and hope. It makes you laugh and cry. I recommend this book to anyone that loves someone, friend or family that lives with addiction.

The Battle Beautiful Boy is a non-fiction story about a fight: a desperate father and a doped son embarked in a battle against methamphetamine.The refered battle could have been shorter if father and son didnt waste so much time battling each other instead of acting as a team towards the devilish meth 😈 Not that they were kicking nor biting one another, but there are other ways of fighting, like when a guy does one thing, whilst the other does exactly the opposite, which was definitely the

I liked this book a lot better than Tweak. The father is a great writer, and he did a great job making me feel as if I was going through the experience with him. He also presents a lot of research on crystal meth and its effects on users. I changed my rating from a 5 to a 4 after I read Tweak however. After I read Beautiful Boy, I was really freaked out about the accessibility of drugs, and the father made it seem as if everyone in the world will eventually try drugs at least once in their life

"Hurry up and read the book, Beautiful Boy," the email from my mother read. "They made a movie out of it, starring Steve Carrell. It opens in theaters Friday. I only want you to read the book. It is so so good."Mom was right, as always. Beautiful Boy is so so good.I heard of the title from NPR on a drive to work one day and, as is a habit of mine, I added it to my Goodreads "To Read" shelf and then let it sit there for a good long while. But when your own mother tells you to get reading a