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> Tag: opium

If the “them apples” guy wrote a book, this would be it.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

January 11, 2023 by Halbs 1 Comment

What do Usher and St. Augustine have in common? I enjoyed their Confessions more than Thomas De Quincey’s. (Also, both Usher and Augustine were both great dancers in their prime.) There have probably been books that were more disappointing to me that Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but I can’t think of any right now. Mr. De Quincey’s Confessions first made itself known to me through Nick Tosches’ The Last Opium Den. That book was less about opium and more about the search for something […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Addiction, Drug Abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drugs, opium, Thomas De Quincey

Halbs's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Addiction, Drug Abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drugs, opium, Thomas De Quincey ·
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A Few Things Get Lost in Translation from Podcast to Book

Sawbones: the Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine by Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy

January 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So the question for this first review of 2021 was do I review the book I started (and finished) in 2021 first, or the one I started in 2020 and finished in 2021 first? I have decided to review Sawbones: The Book first, because I’m pretty sure I started 2020 with Will My Cate Eat My Eyeballs? (which I greatly enjoyed) and there are some strong similarities, both being medical in nature, as well as presented by an expert (one of the co-authors of Sawbones […]

Filed Under: Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: alchemy, anceint medicine, bodily fluids, chemistry, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy, grave robbers, justin mcelroy, Medical History, mummies, opium, podcast, Sawbones: the Horrifying HIlarious road to Modern Medicine

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: alchemy, anceint medicine, bodily fluids, chemistry, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy, Justin McElroy, grave robbers, justin mcelroy, Medical History, mummies, opium, podcast, Sawbones: the Horrifying HIlarious road to Modern Medicine ·
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in search of the celestial drug

The Last Opium Den by Nick Tosches

December 5, 2015 by Halbs Leave a Comment

In my mind exists a temple; a museum of the works of art that helped shape my inner world. Some works are on loan and some are part of the permanent collection. The permanent works that name and sustain me are existentialist: Solomon’s Ecclesiastes, Aurelius’ Meditations, Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Hendrix’ Axis: Bold as Love, Dylan’s electric Manchester performance, Rippel-Ronai’s Park at Night, the Bhagavad Gita. These are useful for determining how to live authentically and courageously in an unknowable universe. A less obvious […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Asia, europe, existentialism, opium, travel

Halbs's CBR7 Review No:48 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Asia, europe, existentialism, opium, travel ·
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Gothic crime and Victorian intrigue

Rustication by Charles Palliser

July 28, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

A Victorian novel in the form of an epistolary, this is the supposed journal of 17-year-old Richard Shenstone, who has just been sent home, or “rusticated,” from Cambridge because of misdeeds that are only slowly revealed in the course of the novel. Richard has recently learned that his father, once a respected deacon of the church, has died of a heart attack while under suspicion of embezzlement of church funds–and worse–and that his mother and older sister are living in dire circumstances in a delapidated […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: gossip, murder, opium, torture, Victorian era

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: gossip, murder, opium, torture, Victorian era ·
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