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Original Title:	Long Past Stopping: A Memoir
ISBN:	0061450758 (ISBN13: 9780061450754)
Edition Language:	English

Long Past Stopping: A Memoir

Oran Canfield

Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 229 Users | 37 Reviews

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Title	:	Long Past Stopping: A Memoir
Author	:	Oran Canfield
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2009 by William Morrow (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction

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Oran Canfield—son of self-help guru and Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield—tells his surreal story of growing up in Long Past Stopping. In this remarkable memoir, writing with a wry and cutting edge, Canfield relates tales of a childhood in flux—being buffeted about among family friends, relatives, rebels, and born-again circus clowns, in an anarchist private school, communes, and libertarian enclaves—and of a young adulthood spent among the ruins of heroin addiction. Long Past Stopping is Oran Canfield’s often hilariously harrowing tale of surviving life in the strange lane.

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Wow. I can't believe I haven't read this book before. Some bad things have gone down lately and this book helped me get through them. Beyond that, I strongly identified with the author. This book really had an effect on me--it seemed to fit perfectly. Truly amazing.

Whoa, talk about someone that's done some living. Also, makes me extremely thankful for a fairly normal child-hood.

The book is fast-paced and a quick read, but it is by no means a light and breezy book. The wit used does not disguise its serious subject matter, drug addiction. True to addict behavior, Oran is completely self-centered and self-absorbed. His autobiographical account of life through 26 and sobriety is well-written and thought-provoking. The chapters alternate between his childhood and his early 20s when he bounced in and out of rehab. His childhood had 2 constants: juggling and inconsistency.

I was really intrigued by this book given that he was the self-help Guru Jack Canfield's son. I've never been able to read a self help book all the way without giving up. Reading this I know I was right! Brilliantly written with underlying humour the story of Oran's incredible journey through childhood and all the crazy shennanigans his mother puts him through to his ordeal at becoming addicted to heroin and the multiple times he tried to kick it. For anyone that has had an addiction this book

Long Past Stopping is one of those memoirs that, while it seems as if you've read it all before. Boy grows up in a broken family, boy finds solace in drugs, boy gets hooked on drugs, boy fights repeated attempts at rehab - rinse and repeat. But with Long Past Stopping, there is so much more to Oran Canfield's fall to the depths of heroin addiction. Oran found solace among clowns when joining the circus. He learned some of life's lessons while living on a farm in Mexico. He transformed from

The way the author was raised is definitely sad, but after what seems like his millionth relapse, I was over it. I couldn't finish the book. And the way he treated people as a result of his addiction got old too. So your dad was an asshole, your mom shuffled you around all the time, you didn't feel like you belonged no matter where you were...join the majority of people in the world.