Helpful Score: 6
What I found so amazing about this book was Augusten's unapologetic honesty. He shares things with strangers (us, the readers) that most people would prefer to not even face. My husband is a recovering alcoholic and I learned things about his struggle that I had not known because he had chosen to keep them inside.
This book gives hope while taking the reader on a roller coaster ride of his struggles, triumphs, more struggles and more triumphs. I felt like I was righ there during some of the most heart-wrenching moments of this time of his life.
This book gives hope while taking the reader on a roller coaster ride of his struggles, triumphs, more struggles and more triumphs. I felt like I was righ there during some of the most heart-wrenching moments of this time of his life.
Helpful Score: 4
Better than Running with Scissors! Augusten Burroughs is a hilarious writer with a lot of issues. I tore through this on a 2-hour plane ride.
Helpful Score: 3
I really liked this book because I have read the books by Augusten Burroughs, this was just another chapter of his life. He writes about his problems with an alcohol addiction and his experience with rehab.
Helpful Score: 3
Continuation of his life after the childhood described in Running with Scissors, the author's bizarre childhood, this is the story of his battle with addiction. There is a disclaimer that parts of the book are fictionalized.
