Comments on: More thoughts on David Carr [or Carr pe diem] http://www.minnesotareads.com/2008/09/more-thoughts-on-david-carr-or-carr-pe-diem/ Some people like to go out dancing, we love a bunch of authors Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Top 10 of 2008, plus bonus worst 3 | Minnesota Reads http://www.minnesotareads.com/2008/09/more-thoughts-on-david-carr-or-carr-pe-diem/comment-page-1/#comment-856 Top 10 of 2008, plus bonus worst 3 | Minnesota Reads Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:23:31 +0000 http://www.minnesotareads.com/?p=107#comment-856 [...] The Night of the Gun by David Carr: Carr excavates his past issues with addiction and violence, self-reporting on his own on-again, off-again relationship with sobriety. The most honest addiction memoir I’ve read [and i've read a lot of them] and also the first addiction memoir I’ve read where I’m not convinced the addict can stay afloat. [review] [...] [...] The Night of the Gun by David Carr: Carr excavates his past issues with addiction and violence, self-reporting on his own on-again, off-again relationship with sobriety. The most honest addiction memoir I’ve read [and i've read a lot of them] and also the first addiction memoir I’ve read where I’m not convinced the addict can stay afloat. [review] [...]

]]> By: Book Links: A Chuck Klosterman extravaganza | Minnesota Reads http://www.minnesotareads.com/2008/09/more-thoughts-on-david-carr-or-carr-pe-diem/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Book Links: A Chuck Klosterman extravaganza | Minnesota Reads Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:02:56 +0000 http://www.minnesotareads.com/?p=107#comment-155 [...] former City Pages editor Craig Cox reviews David Carr’s The Night of the Gun {earlier Christa reviewed the book and so did [...] [...] former City Pages editor Craig Cox reviews David Carr’s The Night of the Gun {earlier Christa reviewed the book and so did [...]

]]> By: Christa http://www.minnesotareads.com/2008/09/more-thoughts-on-david-carr-or-carr-pe-diem/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Christa Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:56:19 +0000 http://www.minnesotareads.com/?p=107#comment-64 i think it speaks pretty honestly to who carr seems to be, and that's a person who may have felt like it was okay to be a suburban drunk and that that was something different than what he had been 14 years earlier. but watching someone else -- jayson blair -- who could potentially cartwheel back into his old ways was something carr would fight against. remember his fierce loyalty to his family? i saw it as another extension of that. i didn't think doubling back was emotionally dishonest as much as just plain confusing and rushed and where the book showed its seams ... to me, the whole thing left me with a lot of questions, mostly: so jill knows you're drinking and is drinking with you? after an initial freak out where she calls his dad and her mom when she first discovers this? the way the rest of it was so thorough -- especially -- made this feel like he'd just kind of added a deck to the story. a rickety deck that should have had a better view. i think it speaks pretty honestly to who carr seems to be, and that’s a person who may have felt like it was okay to be a suburban drunk and that that was something different than what he had been 14 years earlier. but watching someone else — jayson blair — who could potentially cartwheel back into his old ways was something carr would fight against. remember his fierce loyalty to his family? i saw it as another extension of that.

i didn’t think doubling back was emotionally dishonest as much as just plain confusing and rushed and where the book showed its seams … to me, the whole thing left me with a lot of questions, mostly: so jill knows you’re drinking and is drinking with you? after an initial freak out where she calls his dad and her mom when she first discovers this?

the way the rest of it was so thorough — especially — made this feel like he’d just kind of added a deck to the story. a rickety deck that should have had a better view.

]]> By: Jodi Chromey http://www.minnesotareads.com/2008/09/more-thoughts-on-david-carr-or-carr-pe-diem/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Jodi Chromey Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:45:47 +0000 http://www.minnesotareads.com/?p=107#comment-63 Ok, this comment is spoiler-laden so if you haven't read the book, you might not want to read. So, I gotta ask, what did you think about learning after the fact that while he was talking to Jayson Blair and begging him not to fall off the wagon that Carr himself might have actually been off the wagon at the time? I was a little pissed to go as far as 2004 or so in the memoir and then have to leap back to 2002 to when he decided to take that drink. It felt a little emotionally dishonest to me. Did you have any problems with that? Ok, this comment is spoiler-laden so if you haven’t read the book, you might not want to read.

So, I gotta ask, what did you think about learning after the fact that while he was talking to Jayson Blair and begging him not to fall off the wagon that Carr himself might have actually been off the wagon at the time?

I was a little pissed to go as far as 2004 or so in the memoir and then have to leap back to 2002 to when he decided to take that drink. It felt a little emotionally dishonest to me. Did you have any problems with that?

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