Journal Entry 1 by Valpuri from Wakefield, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 31, 2007

From back cover: Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Crowley's first published novel. To the reader of 1922 it presented a shocking look at a little known phenomenon. Today, while we are more familiar with drugs because of their widespread use in our culture, Diary of a Drug Fiend remains one of the most intense, detailed and accurate accounts of drug addiction and the drug experience.
The book was written by Crowley after years of deep personal study and experimentation with drugs. It is the story of a young man and woman who fall madly in love and whirl through Europe in a frenzied haze of heroin/cocaine adventure. Their ecstacy is brought to an abrupt end when their drug supply is cut off and despair replaces joy. Through the guidance of King Lamus, a master Adept, they free themselves from the entanglements of addiction by the application of practical Magick.
The narrative carries the reader aloft through the brilliance of the imagery created by this master of language; his prose development parallels the growth and increasing depth of his characters in an uncanny fashion. This is a book to be read and reread. It will also prove a useful document to doctors, lawyers, police and addicts for its unique and precise presentation of the psychology of addiction and the possibility of its cure through the development of the True Will.
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Perfect book for anybody, who wants to know how the drugs actually work inside human mind. What's more, this book can help you to learn how to control any kind of addiction, and even use the addiction and the knowledge of it for your benefit. Many of us do things they are really not intrested, and are wasting a lot of time and energy. If we could learn to know ourselves and find out our true Will, as King Lamus teaches, there wouldn't be so much frustation and agony. Not knowing and acting one's own Will is eventually leading many people to use alcohol, drugs or otherwise try to escape everyday life. This book doesn't give you any easy "step-by-step"-guide or straight answers as what you should or shouldn't do. Instead it tells a fine story of two people getting more experiences and finally growing up as human beings. If reader wants to learn something, he/she has to do the thinking by him/herself - and in the end, isn't it the only way to learn anything? -- The book belongs to permanent collection.