Candy

Once I read the first pages that the store.com provided I was hooked!! Than I got it, sat down to read a couple pages and I was hooked even more! I didn't put the book down tell I was done. The Author knows his stuff and he can defiantly tell a story!! If you're looking to go into a world you normally would not go than get this book!! If I could give it 10 stars, I would! Enjoy!!! And Luke Davies if you are reading this... Write another you truly are a blessed author!!!!

This is a wondefully-told tale of terrible lives. Unlike other junkie books I've read, Davies never gives you the "I haven't had all the breaks in life, so have pity on me" slant. Told in strong prose with intelligence and humor (the episode of the "projectile syringe" is just one example). Please share this book with a friend. Better yet, share this book with a stranger with whom you want to be friends.

Amazing is the first name that comes to mind when reading this book. It is so real. I have read it so many times i have lost count. It has you crying one moment, then laughing, then just disgusted with the characters. Davies depicts the sick world of heroin very well in my opinion. You learn to love the characters, because u are let into their very twisted world that is so difficult to understand.

The characters were real and I could feel emotions for them through out the book. The story was very real. It was a sad story but very interesting. Usually it takes me a month to finish a book but with this one I finished it in less than a week. I found myself always reading with every free moment I found. I even sent it to my sister when I was finished.

This book really demonstrates how dependent and pathetic heroin users can be. All their time is centered on somehow coming up with enough money to buy some more heroin. The worst for them is withdrawl.
The book went into a little bit about how users process the stuff, but there wasn't that much on their trips. Parts of it were funny--like when this guy is going through withdrawl as he's trying to help his buddy plant a marijuana plot. It reads well/easily. Not a bad book.

I thought the novel was blunt, descriptive, and I couldn't put it down. Anyone who likes to read novels about drugs, sex, and life coming from the point of veiw of an addict, would like this novel. You can't put it down, and when it ends you want to read it again.

The most realistic, sad, funny, romantic, hopeless, touching book I've ever read on heroin-addiction!

When you first start reading you don't put down the book until the last page.

It won't be long until I read it all over again!!

Very narrow narration..never goes beyond the characters and their DRUG problems..Trainspotting was about so much more than the drugs.. Characters are pretty unmemorable too, nothing special about them.

This is my favorite book of all time. Luke Davies crafts his words so eloquently - it's such a rarity to be drenched with such poetics in both grammar and in story line. I'm totally fascinated by the way Davies uses language, and I am so thankful he wrote this book so that I could experience this gut-wrenching, tragically masterful story through the filter of his ingeniousness. For years, the tale of Candy has gripped me. No other book has ever brought me such sorrow and such perspective, while also maintaining beauty in the work. Trying to wrench yourself from the characters' world back into your own after putting the book down is impossible - you'll be thinking about this book long after you shut its pages.

I liked this better when it was called "Trainspotting." But this Aussie spin on the addicted youth subgenre has its own disgusting charms. The narrator, an unnamed minor-league scam artist, and the beautiful but deranged Candy fall in love, more with smack than with each other. Love is grand, but not so grand as being high all the time. Candy supports both their habits, earning "bucketloads" as a high-class call girl coz everyone knows there's nothing sexier than a junkie twitching and scratching herself raw while she's waiting for you to finish, so she can go stick needles in the festering sores on her arms. That's a good example of the major problem with this novel: Luke Davies (who looks more like teen dreamboat Luke Perry in his author photo) can't decide whether to portray the ugly reality of heroin addiction and all the abscesses, vomiting, scabs and degradation that entails, or the doomed but glamorous romance of the die-young-stay-pretty Hollywood junkie (hence, the Heath Ledger movie). So he tries to do both and winds up neither here nor there. It's an entertaining novel -- if you're the kind of person amused by the idea of DIY crab ranches -- but if you're jonesing for serious literature, "Candy" is the equivalent of a spike full of baking soda.