Love Me More: An Addict's Diary (Paperback)

~ Danusha V. Goska (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 396 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (October 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140109242X
• ISBN-13: 978-1401092429
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,477,942 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Painfully Honest; A Heart on the Page, June 26, 2005

By	Peter A. Greene (Franklin, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It is easy in a first novel to fall into the trap of preaching, or manufacturing drama. It is easy to create a main character who is, even in her struggles, perfect and saintlike.

Goska creates a character whose journey is sometimes hard to watch, sometimes painful to read. It is not as neat and warm and fuzzy as, say, a pleasant afternoon read for the Oprah crowd. Sometimes her main character is open, honest and giving-- in other moments, she can be a self-ceneterd jerk.

But at all times this woman is real and believable and completely absorbing, and her struggles to find a love and purpose and hope that can fill her up are moving and touching and altogether real.

This is a challenging work, but it is a challenge worth meeting.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This One is a Keeper, February 13, 2004

By	John Burgoon (Bloomington, Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Me More: An Addict's Diary (Hardcover)

Why read this book? This beautifully written story is compelling and yet thorny, like a wild rose, with all the lingering after-taste of great poetry. Danusha Goska somehow hammers nails into places in my mind that I never knew I had; yet in other places she plants healing kisses. Nothing is predictable, not the main character, not the plot, not the time progression. This book is a roller-coaster of emotion and experience and thought that you will never forget.

Miraswava had me angry enough to throw the book down, aching enough to pick it back up, and laughing hard enough to draw stares. I am placing "Love Me More" among the Keepers on my shelf. This is definitely a book you will want to keep, because portions of it will haunt your thoughts and force you to go back and read it all again.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Debut, December 14, 2003

By A Customer

This remarkable book signals the entry of an extraordinary new talent in contemporary fiction. Goska has given us a fresh and honest perspective on class and ethnicity in the United States -- one of the most powerful explorations of these issues to appear since World War II. Her views are all the more remarkable given the prevailing piety about these issues at present. Along the way, she tosses off fascinating asides on the case history as a literary genre, popular tv sitcoms, sex, food . . . you name it. And she does it all in dazzling and madly inventive prose. This book is nothing short of amazing.