The author is older than me, and some of the stuff he went through, (be it his or someone else's fault) is interesting.  I sort of take exception with him laying out the best way to deal drugs...in fact, when the scaffolding takes him and someone else on a perilous ride it seems like a metaphor.  Since the book's not complete, I can't really say anything about any of it, and perhaps I should shut the hell up.  I'm not really fit to edit anything of his.  However, I remember being 18 (back then you didn't have to be 21), reading Hunter S. and getting universal laughter when either I or my pals would tell a group that we got 'fuct up' - our discovery of Hunter coincided with Boomtown's release, oddly enough.  I like to play DB's music for and with  my boy, first of all because it's in my meager approximation, honest.  Second, because you can't paint-along (in-time) with brush strokes - everyone, no matter how poorly they sing, can sing and as far as that goes, I don't mind showing my son I fail when trying things (I'll give you a list of of DB's tunes - I have an awful voice and can't paint my way out of a paper bag)...I guess I'd ask the author of the book to make it more cautionary and not like Evil Knievel (woohoo!!! I SURVIVED!!!)  The guy who's scored loads of movies and albums and generated this (however rabid) fanbase knows more about living and not just surviving, I suspect.  Like to see some of that in the literature...it's already in the music near as I can tell....