Friday, April 16, 2010

Tweak by Nic Sheff

I have recently completed Tweak. I thought this was one of, if not the best book i have read all year. It was extremely interesting and the kind of book that once you start reading, it is hard to put down. Thrughout the book, Nic is in and out of different rehabs across the country. He has a hard time putting up with everything but he knows that if he doesn't do anything, he probably won't live much longer. At some points in the novel, it seems as if Nic is giving up. But he then realizes that giving up in not an option. Finally at the end of the book, after staying at a different rehab facility for 2 months, his parents come to pick him up and he is allowed to leave. He hugs his parents and apologizes for everything he's done wrong and he says to himself, "I feel so to be exactly where I am," (319). This is what made the novel so inspiration. At the begining thankful it did not seem like their was much hope for Nic. He was constantly drinking, smoking pot, d0ing heroin, ecstasy, and crystal meth. But this novel shows that a person can truely achieve anything that they put their mind to...