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Title: The Quantity Theory of Drug Intake
Review: Sit down and write a clever, although overdone, Twilight Zone-esque short story. Great. Now you have to write a dozen or more short stories to fulfill the contract with your publisher. Oh, the pressure! Just whip out the heavy drugs and let them do the writing for you. This appears to be the strategy that Will Self took in this understandably out of print volume.It is the rare book that I don't finish once I start it. But the stories just kept getting more incoherent, and I had to put it down. The author just got obsessed with the idea that the only difference between the sane and the insane is that insane people do more crazy things than the sane ones do, and couldn't let it go.If you are looking for a quirky collection of modern short stories, go with The Acid House by Irvine Welsh and avoid The Quantity Theory of Insanity for the sake of your own sanity.
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