I grew up reading his early works in the 80's and beyond. Well written, novel themes, sometimes fucked up beyond belief. It's obvious he did lots of drugs.

Recommended.

Could you provide a source on the adrenaline thing?

Maybe take a walk around the neighborhood, find it, and dispose of it?

I spent entirely too long trying to figure out what "rental duds" was...

Got a friend who got his CDL and drives a school bus in the morning and afternoon. It came with benefits and mediocre pay. And lots of unruly kids!

When I visited Italy for the first (and last) time a few years back, I kept thinking the same!

Lol. Yes, people do still build systems and store plain text passwords. I regularly get scammers sending me my throwaway passwords from crappy sites. Good thing I never reuse passwords, or email addresses.