I read this book in one day. This is the exact type of book to float my boat. Gotta have my sex drugs and rock & roll. Richard Hell lived a most interesting and exciting life and he is also a most poetic and gifted writer. Hell writes in a beautifully descriptive and dreamy manner. Maybe from all those junk nods, who knows. Like most memoirs that must focus on drug abuse, at times it gets pretty redundant. No matter. I wish I could have known you, Oh but I was just a kid... we are kindred spirits.