Drugs in IV vs. GR

[John Carvill]

One small, fairly obvious point: GR could have been written without
any drug use being depicted, given its ostensible WWII setting. On the
other hand, the setting of IV pretty much demands that habitual drug
use be depicted.

When Wood picks up on Jones's line about IV being "probably as close
to getting stoned as reading a novel can be", and then sneeringly
adds, "(which he takes as high praise)", the critic who comes off
looking bad is Wood, not Jones. I don't think there's a need to
explain why that is.