Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff Grades 10+ 352 pages Atheneum January 2009 Paperback     The author of Tweak is the son of David Sheff, a psuccessful writer who interviewed John Lennon for Playboy and has recently written his own book. That relationship has placed Nic in the position he occupies in the book - an addict stuck trying to curry his famous father's love and respect. The memoir here falls somewhere between Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight and James Frey's Million Little Pieces. Sheff doesn't have the writing chops of either of these two writers, but he does make up for that with an inordinate amount of honesty (talking about smoking crack and hooking his body as a male prostitute in San Francisco). Actually, these dark moments provide the most entertaining chapters. When Sheff goes into rehab one final time during the book's closing chapters, the writing slows down and becomes a bit too lovey dovey and crystal sniffing. It just rings a bit of being shallow and forced. Still, this is a terrific book and reveals the utter depths someone will sink to to get and stay high. The author is an incurable addict, and in a closing chapter that comes in the shape of a blog, he talks about relapsing again and hurting everyone around him. Read this, and it will make you feel terrific about your own normal life.     web reviews   Steven Rosen/2009 for curled up with a good kid's book   For grown-up fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction book reviews, visit our sister site Curled Up With a Good Book (www.curledup.com)