Jesus' Son - Likewise Book Reviews

"This is a weird one for me to consider. My husband and I hold the movie Jesus’ Son dear in our history. So far in my life there had only been one movie that superseded it’s source book, but this is now the second book for me where I feel the movie was better. I did not find myself connecting to the characters in the book the same way I did in the movie, which could be a function of the book not really fleshing out too many characters in each story aside from the narrator. There are some gems of prose nuzzled in, but much of the writing feels detached in a way the movie does not. One last comparison: You know how lacroix (the beverage) is always joked about being “if you had a can of sparkling water and *thought* about the flavor of a fruit, that’s lacroix”? This book is lacroix and Samuel Delaney’s Dhalgren is the real fruit flavor."

"The just-below-the-surface world of drugs and loneliness, intersects hopeful and masterfully poetic observations. Gritty, yet also tenderly beautiful."