Contact Admin. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. He's certainly not suicidal; the boy's too big a coward to even cut himself while shaving. He may be delusional, he may sincerely wish that he were depressed, but he's certainly not a depressive. But that's probably because he's a figment of Charlie's imagination.
An unwitting Charlie - rudely interrupted in th "Charlie's not a depressive. An unwitting Charlie - rudely interrupted in the middle of typing out his umpteenth suicide note - is hurled into a brave new world of addiction, rock music, and debauchery in this tale of growing up and going down.
From rolling joints to rolling in drug money, from backing out of life, to fronting somebody else's rock band, he's in for a bumpy ride. Charlie divides his time between being in love with Paloma and hating himself, betweein living out Nineties music video fantasies and wishing he were someone else. At the end, Charlie is forced to figure eout which one of his many lives he really wants for himself.
You can take a boy out of the Nineties, but can you take the Nineties out of him? Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Cough Syrup Surrealism , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Cough Syrup Surrealism. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Nov 14, Kishore rated it really liked it.
Charliebum from Trivandrum moved to Chennai — for college — in search of Central Perk. And take birth it did. A chance encounter with a beautiful girl and a dubious tryst with love transport the repressed nerd boy into the drug world — something that seems an alarmingly ubiquitous subculture. The story of discovery that follows purports to be the biography of a generation that finds itself off-centre, recognising the futility of the empty values that it was brought up on.
