I've read a fair amount of books this year dealing with addiction/drugs - I'm surprised I love all of them as much as I do. Jesus' Son, like the others, uses words to the fullest effect. Each sentense in the short collection of short stories is carefully crafted, but not in a way that muddles the actual story; instead each word becomes important and each sentence unmasks something about the story or characters.

I didn't realize the narrator of each story was the same until the second or third story; I realized those little hints too late and I already want to go back and read it again and piece the stories together chronologically, as they are not presented here. I realized I needed to pay more attention to each sentence. The narrator himself, a drug abuser, is not sympathetic - I didn't like him. The real star here is the prose and the way the stories interweave.