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For years I resisted reading this book for the same reason I still haven't made it to New York: I was afraid it wouldn't live up to the cinematic version. To say I love the Gus Van Sant film is an understatement. It may be the only note-perfect film I have ever seen. Is anything so witty, funny, cool, beautiful and tragic as that movie? I bought a giant movie poster of it in Camden or somewhere back when I was young, lost, and hopelessly poor in London. I carried that poster from hovel to hovel, my only piece of beauty most of the time. I never saw the book back in those days, and when amazon.com came along I kept the novel on my Wish List for years. Why bother reading the book when the film was already perfect?

Finally I bit the bullet and bought it. First I read the back cover and was dismayed to read that the author, James Fogle, has spent most of his life in prison. I did a quick google search and was more dismayed to read he had been arrested again in his old age for robbing drugstores. Why was I dismayed? I don't know. When I was younger that probably would have made me hapy: at least it was real. But it was the same heartbreaking feeling I got after I read Leaving Las Vegas and found out that the author really had killed himself young. I'm now at the age where tragedy dismays me instead of fuelling some kind of misguided romanticism.

Still, with books like that, everything is authentic.

Happily for me, there are few differences between the book and the film. Almost the whole plot is the same and a good deal of the dialogue is lifted straight from these pages. Old Gus knows a great thing when he reads it.

This is a great book. The film does it justice. Best bought together. I only wish I had bought the movie soundtrack while it was still available.


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Drugstore Cowboy A Novel James Fogle 9780385302241 Books Reviews

I love reading stories like this. I could not put this book down. The dead on accuracies of drug addiction and what the addicts themselves will go through to maintain their high. I recommend it to anyone.
Entertaining fictionalized account of the real deal The Drugstore Cowboy. Active at robbing drugstores primarily in the Pacific North West for many years, James Fogle weaves an interesting account of his exploits. After a life of crime with his sketchy co-horts, he works at getting clean only to be killed by his young nemesis.
No one can accuse James Fogle of not having done his research. The man spent the majority of his adult life behind bars for apparently the exact type of lifestyle that he presents in DRUGSTORE COWBOY. I guess he took the lesson of writing what you know to heart.

Despite my lukewarm rating, which I base on an objective reading of the book, DRUGSTORE COWBOY is actually an enjoyable read. The cowboy himself, Bob, has probably ripped off more pharmacies than anyone else on the West Coast. We follow Bob, his lady Diane, and his compatriots Rick and Nadine on a few such romps. The situations they get themselves into, or more appropriately, that Bob gets them into, are often quite amusing and I laughed several times throughout. The book is easy reading and even a slow reader will be able to get through it in a few days.

What Fogle has in authenticity, however, is offset by the writing itself, which often feels contrived. This is particularly acute with respect to dialogue, which unfortunately often goes beyond contrived into flat-out cliched and even corny. The free-wheeling style of writing is usually not my thing but is probably appropriate for a novel such as this.

I am a bit surprised that the book DRUGSTORE COWBOY (as opposed to the movie) was never more popular. It has that Jack Kerouac feel to it that would seem to straddle the line between popular novel and cult classic. It may not be highbrow, but it is fast and fun.
The book is even better than the movie but I urge you to watch the movie first then read the book.
I am a big fan of the movie Drugstore Cowboy and when I found out it was based on book, I had to find it and read it. I am not disappointed. Although the movie closely follows the book and even uses dialogue directly from the book, there are enough difference and delicious little details to keep my interest.
this book is pretty good, but junky by burroughs is the be all and end all of opiate addiction.
I actually liked the movie better than the book. The book is more profane and gritty, possibly more realistic. Despite having more than a passing acquaintance with "the life" myself, I liked the sanitized version better. Having said that, however, the book is a gem, having been written by someone with intimate knowledge of his subject. Downbeat without being depressing, a nice slice of Pacific Northwest junkie life in the 1970's. A couple of surprises and a stunning ending.
For years I resisted reading this book for the same reason I still haven't made it to New York I was afraid it wouldn't live up to the cinematic version. To say I love the Gus Van Sant film is an understatement. It may be the only note-perfect film I have ever seen. Is anything so witty, funny, cool, beautiful and tragic as that movie? I bought a giant movie poster of it in Camden or somewhere back when I was young, lost, and hopelessly poor in London. I carried that poster from hovel to hovel, my only piece of beauty most of the time. I never saw the book back in those days, and when came along I kept the novel on my Wish List for years. Why bother reading the book when the film was already perfect?

Finally I bit the bullet and bought it. First I read the back cover and was dismayed to read that the author, James Fogle, has spent most of his life in prison. I did a quick google search and was more dismayed to read he had been arrested again in his old age for robbing drugstores. Why was I dismayed? I don't know. When I was younger that probably would have made me hapy at least it was real. But it was the same heartbreaking feeling I got after I read Leaving Las Vegas and found out that the author really had killed himself young. I'm now at the age where tragedy dismays me instead of fuelling some kind of misguided romanticism.

Still, with books like that, everything is authentic.

Happily for me, there are few differences between the book and the film. Almost the whole plot is the same and a good deal of the dialogue is lifted straight from these pages. Old Gus knows a great thing when he reads it.

This is a great book. The film does it justice. Best bought together. I only wish I had bought the movie soundtrack while it was still available.