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Title	:	Wasted
Author	:	Mark Johnson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 308 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 2007 by Little, Brown Book Group (first published May 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

Wasted

Mark Johnson

Hardcover | Pages: 308 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 670 Users | 59 Reviews

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Mark Johnson’s father had LOVE tattooed across his left hand, but that didn’t stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one ever thought of investigating their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks, and kept on falling for years. Constantly in trouble at school, Mark began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin at eleven. A sensitive, intelligent boy, he could never stay on the right path, and though art college beckoned, he ended up in Portland prison instead. With searing honesty, Wasted documents Mark’s descent into the depths of addiction and criminality. Homeless, hooked on heroin and crack, no one—least of all Mark—believed he would survive. And yet, astonishingly, he somehow pulled himself through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts. His story is at once shocking and inspiring a compelling account of one man’s struggle to save himself, and help save others in the process.

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Original Title:	Wasted
ISBN:	184744024X (ISBN13: 9781847440242)
Edition Language:	English

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Wow! The main question I had after reading this book is how is Mark Johnson still alive? I usually don't read books written by authors from England but I really enjoyed "Wasted". I would recommend this to anyone looking for a book on addiction.

In this memoir, Mark Johnson candidly recounts his life as a born addict. Through a childhood as an abused, emotionally neglected, thieving street-running boy, he grows into a man who turns his life into a drug-fueled party. But after years of what seems to be a "manageable" habit that he continuously justifies to himself, he fathers a child. When he overdoses and wakes to find the needle still in his arm, his two-year-old son crying hysterically, dirty diaper falling off, the mother banging on

I flew through this book in record time. An amazing and quite a depressing story of how someone can truly hit rock bottom and then somehow manage to turn their life around.

A gritty powerful book about the nature of addiction; hitting rock bottom before slowly and painfully climbing back up.

I was shocked when I started listening to this book but soon I had to realise that the story of Mark Johnson's life is not unique. Domestic abuse, alcohol and drug addictions, homelessness... are reality for too many people. But this is not a story of misery and despair, this is story of hope and inspiration. This memoir illustrates how cruel life can be but also how much one can achieve if they only want.This is a great and inspiring listen!

I really enjoyed this bleak memoir by Mark Johnson. The writing itself can be a bit dry and basic but the impact of the story itself makes up for that easily.

AmazingAs a recovering alcoholic I identify so much. I think this book will change my life. I was with you all the way. A day at a time. Absolutely amazing.