I don't have a criticism of poetry as a whole, obviously- I mean, I might say I do, but if I did that would just be to be provocative and a pain in your ass- it's just hard for me to pay attention in the way you have to pay attention, and to really understand what a poem is doing. I now return to it about once a year, particularly when I'm struggling with my own alcoholic and perpetually absent father, as a kind of sense-maker for my own world. I saw the movie first (Being Flynn) before even knowing it was based on a book. The story initially focuses on the early parallels between young Flynn and his estranged, alcoholic father. The book was built on fragmented thoughts and memories that just continuously shifted from past to present, not to mention there was not one happy story or even thought in the book.

Such as it was.

It's a brave book, like Cheryl Strayed's Wild in its unflinching and persistent exposure of the self, of truths about the self most of us would prefer to not to drag into the light.It's as good as everyone says it is.

The film version starring Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano, was released as Being Flynn I imagine Another Bullshit Night in Suck City would be tough to put on a marquis, I've seen plenty of internet mentions of the book where they clean up the title.

Yes, yes! I'm not sure why people are considering this a "post-modern" book. Closer to thirty than to twenty, and wasting months of their lives on drinking binges, babbling about their potentiI spent a lot of time while reading this wondering who I know that will be resigned to a fate similar to that of the father in these memoirs. First, it is a difficult story about son and negligent father.

My self worth is at an all-time low, and with where I stand on such things it damn well should be.

Welcome back. I can unfortunately name a decent sized handful of people who run this risk at this point in their lives. Nick reflects on all the stories he had heard about his father, an inconsiderate bigot who gives himself too much credibility for his writing and criminal deeds, and became even more agitated and afraid of his “destined future”. I doubt that is in fact the case, but wouldn't it be odd if somehow the places that birthed out nation are beginning to be left behind in disgust? Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. He is already a recognized poet, with the recognition consisting mainly of two letters, one from Teddy Kennedy and the other from Patty Hearst, both of which he poThis is a depressing but dogged story of a man trying to trace the paths of his homeless father. You can feel the author seeks closure by writing his story down. I can unfortunately name a decent sized handful of people who run this risk at this point in their lives. Flynn sets the stage in the first chapter, when he describes his homeless father’s efforts to use an ATM booth for shelter at night, by leading with the date, Nick Flynn's unflinching and unsentimental account of his largely absent and totally pathetic father and of his own work in a Boston homeless shelter raises many questions. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Well, I powered through it because of the reader, but the story was aweful, in my opinion.

Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. His words reached my heart and moved me, both with his exquisite mastery of craft and his exposure of self, writing to tell his story and ours.

The Patty Hearst Story and Creature Double Feature are familiar events to my childhood as well, which makes for a nostalgic moment. Nick Flynn has written a powerful memoir in prose and poetry, poetical prose. I don't actually think this book is bad at all, but I put it in this section because I couldn't get through it, despite really, really wanting to. Welcome back.

It reads like a Springsteen song mixed with homelessness and hard drugs. Maybe a sober Alan Ginsberg is basically a low life Springsteen. I thought it was a beautiful combination of poetry and nonfiction. However, to pin all your hopes for your future on making it big in music just isn't that realistic. I confess to going back and forth between two poles as I read Flynn's disturbing memoir.

Or maybe a sober of Alan Ginsberg.

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(Each person from the shelter is drawn so distinctively it makes you realize how reductive and dismissive the term "the homeless" really is).I was reluctant to give this five stars--it's not an easy experience. I wish there were anything to be said about it that wouldn't be taken as annoying nagging, but these people will run the course of their lives however they see fit, regardless of what is good for them or what they're capable of.

It just never clicked.In het Nederlands gelezen, jammer van de erbarmelijke vertaling waarbij er zelfs meermaals missers zijn bij de namen van de personagesWho recommended this book to me?

But it's definitely amazing. This was made into a movie starring Robert DeNiro and Julianne Moore; it is entitled Being Flynn because apparently the memoir's title is somewhat offensive. The guy has style, it's of the frayed and utilitarian variety, but it is uniquely his and it makes for a golly-gosh-darn-good read (again not how Flynn would put it).At first I didn't like this book, but as it went on, it got better/more engaging, which I think says a lot about its overall quality.

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