SIMON MORRIS: Watching The Wheels (Amphetamine Sulphate) Paperback Book
$30.00
“Juxtapositions: BBC documentary on sex addiction, vintage S&M magazine, True Detective magazines, and citation of an academic publication dealing with suicides among people living near railway lines. This fall I think you’re riding for—it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind.”
Simon Morris was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1968. In his fourth book for Amphetamine Sulphate he plays a rock journalist whose sensory floodgates have been forced open wide due to grief and loss. We explore the nature of time, the differences between epiphany and apophenia, buried childhood memories, the 1980 and 1981 output of Queen and how it shadows the death of John Lennon. For fans of PKD and Pynchon. Adults Only.
Morris’s masterpiece, no doubt about it. The nostalgic and melancholic tone really resonated with me, and the writing itself was very striking. All of this made for a very haunting and powerful reading experience. It was similar in tone and execution to the incredible Sea of Love, but with significantly more doom and gloom shadowing everything. It all felt very final (and unfortunately proved to be). A beautiful, albeit somber, reading experience.
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