Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip (2018)
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Faith of Our Fathers[1]
Lies, Inc[2] (which takes a while to get rolling, but if you bear with it your patience will be rewarded).
Ubik[3]
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch[4]
If you enjoy these sorts of stories, give them a try. You won't be disappointed.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_Our_Fathers_%28short_...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_Inc.
Palmer Eldricht is definitely the scariest villain of all time for me.
"He clearly descended into abuse after his fourth wife left him in the early 1970s. Afterward, according to Kyle Arnold’s biography, he was taking speed by the handful. “He stuffed his refrigerator with thousand-pill jars of amphetamines” and “told his mother he consumed a thousand-pill jar per week.”" https://www.thefix.com/philip-k-dick-s-high-life
"Conclusion Increases in stimulant drug abuse may increase the rate of hospital admissions for strokes and stroke-related mortality." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...
It reminds me of how the cause of death for Adrian Lamo is officially "undetermined", but the medical examiner notes serum potassium and creatinine levels that are so high (in my informed opinion) that they probably can only be described as "kidney failure" or "lethal injection".
Judging from his complaint of failing eyesight the day prior to his death [1], it sounds like a common embolism. Considering Atherosclerosis is the number one cause of death in the developed world [2], it's not like we need to search for a likely cause.
I'd argue that it's likely he was going to die around this age wether he used drugs or not, but the drug use gave him a more pleasurable experience throughout his years.
I wouldn't also describe his career as "very long and successful". I think that's quite an oversimplification, as it was far from idyllic. It included a few years without publishing a thing, and a suicide attempt. Plus he struggled with financial troubles pretty much all the way through.
too cool to do drugs
cool to do drugs
to do drugs
do drugs
drugs
(https://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/the-story-behind-the-too-c...)
This famous writer may have been negatively affected by drugs, but then they show the cover of his book with crabs. Maybe not the best message to sent around.
("Kac", originating from German "Katzenjammer" and pronounced roughly like "cuts", therefore kind of rhyming with "las" in "Las Vegas", stands for "hangover" in Polish).