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Chasing the Scream
By:Johann Hari
Published on 2015-01-20 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The New York Times Bestseller The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting. What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, unable to know what to do, he set out on a three-year, 30,000-mile journey to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their war on drugs--with extraordinary results. His discoveries led him to give a TED talk and animation which have now been viewed more than 25 million times. This is the story of a life-changing journey that showed the world the opposite of addiction is connection.

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Do not you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's happy druthers) for the great ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were evenly plainspoken, just utilitarian, unpretentious, and -- most importantly else -- dull, dull, dull? Do not you type of loathe when people state'do not you believe in this manner or sense this way'in an attempt to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to accepting with them? In what of ABBA: I do, I actually do, I do(, I do, I do). Effectively, as the interwebs is just a world by which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the current (and with fetish porn), we can review yesteryear in its inviolable presentness anytime we wish. Or at the very least till this amazing site ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in their entirety. I've bound it with much rope and dragged it here for your perusal. 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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you never want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it absolutely was meant to be read, then it would have been a novel, not just a play. Together with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for each character for a couple pages). None folks had read the play before. None people wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. This compounded to make me more or less hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also really can fuck up your GPA. 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