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  • Dreamseller

  • An Addiction Memoir
  • Written by: Brandon Novak
  • Narrated by: Brandon Novak
  • Length: 8 hrs
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Dreamseller

Written by: Brandon Novak
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Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death-defying stunts on the road to recovery …

At seven, Brandon was a skateboard prodigy. By the time he was fourteen, he was living the dream. Discovered by skate legends Bucky Lasek and Tony Hawk. Touring the US with the elite Powell-Peralta team. Signing autographs and appearing in films and magazines. Brandon had it all. Then he got hooked on heroin.

Soon the up-and-coming star was living a down-and-out life in a garage, begging for change, and hustling to score his next fix. He stole from his family and friends. He pushed the fantasy that everything was okay, that he was going to rehab, getting help, and getting better. But it was all a lie.

This is the story of an addict—a dreamseller who stopped believing the lies he was selling and started believing in himself. With the help of his celebrity buddy Bam Margera of Jackass fame, Brandon joined the cast of MTV’s Viva La Bam and made an honest reach for sobriety. The road was hard, and he had some falls. But like any great skateboarder, Brandon Novak was always determined to get up again.

©2008 Brandon Novak and Joseph Frantz. Update © 2017 by Brandon Novak and Joseph Frantz (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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This book will leave you spellbound as you listen to the narrator who witnessed all the mind-boggling events you hear in this journey. Get ready to immerse yourself in the story.

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The misogyny..

This man talks DOWN about college aged women either making money via sex work because men are stupid and willing to pay, being sexually liberal and playing the game like men do and just using it to their advantage, or just enjoying HAVING SEX FOR THE SAKE OF SEX, in such a misogynistic way that he was able to forget he was “one of the girls but without the shame” when. HE LET A FAT OLD MIDDLE AGE MAN BLOW HIM FOR 40 DOLLARS so he could get high. But he didn’t even get high for all that effort, and somehow managed to run into his high school sweetheart, who he introduced drugs and shooting up to , at the gas station, and she offered to turn a truck so he didn’t y get sick, and he turned it down . I’ll take 600 hundred on things that never happend. And the icing was on the cakeTHAT DAY HE DECIDED TO GET CLEAN and turned down her offer for a fix. YEAJ MOTHERFUCKING RIGHT.

This is not to shame addicts. We do what we have to do to cope with things that happened to us that we are not able or taught to cope with. But this man… THIS MAN thinks blaming everyone else absolves him of his sins. THIS man thinks he has the right to judge why women have sex, who they have sex withwnand that women’s reasoning

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