Reviews for Drugstore Cowboy

The average rating for Drugstore Cowboy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-10 00:00:00 Michel Roy I loved the movie so I decided to read the book. Much of the material is based on the author's personal experiences as a junky who knocked off pharmacies with his partners on the West Coast to maintain their habits, and as a result were marginalized and meshed into a subculture exposed to violence, degradation, incarceration, and often on the run. The narrator owns his experiences like an adventure he takes part in 'by choice' and as an exercise of free will. The tone is one of dark comedy. The book is a quick read with simple vocabulary and lots of speaking parts rounded out by short descriptions and visualizations in and around Portland, Oregon. I felt like I could care about Bob and Diane and Nadine and Rick, maybe even more than they cared about themselves in the end!

Review # 2 was written on 2007-06-08 00:00:00 Ricardo Cruz Bravo If you have seen the movie, you got to read this. If you haven't seen the movie--get with it!