What are you reading now?

Already Dead: A California Gothic by Denis Johnson. This is the same author who wrote the book that the movie Jesus' Son was adapted from. I think I love that movie. This book is pretty good, so far. I'm not very far into it, but already I can say that the prose is consistently ... I don't know. The descriptions are unique, even odd and perverse, but very endearing and funny. Romantic, I guess, but strangely so. I don't know how great the plot turns out, but so far it's off to a tight, compelling start. I think the characters are all somewhat altered by drugs, either presently or in the past, and I get the impression the same can be said about the author. There's that sort of wonderful, out-of-touch-with-reality quality of a stoner conversation, but the story still seems very well planned out.

Oh, what's it actually about? Well, so far there's a guy who's being chased by a couple thugs hired by a drug dealer to whom he owes money from a trafficking run gone wrong. He's cheating on his wife and growing pot in a secluded canyon. There's also this ex-soldier guy who visits his schizophrenic (I think) military buddy to let him know that he'll die very soon. These two guys' lives collide. There are other characters who are all equally intriguing, but I don't yet know how they fit in.

Jam it back in, in the dark.