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.
Really good book about one man's fight against alcoholism and life.
funny memoir of what happens after rehab
enjoyed very much, well worth reading!
Augusten Burroughs' life of addiction and rehab.
Witty and well written, Augusten Burroughs chronicals his experiences with rehab and AA after practically ruining his life and career with alcoholism. Along with his journey into sobriety we get glimpses of Burrough's pain at watching a beloved friend die from HIV, as well as snippets of the personalities of his friend the undertaker and his work associates.
Although Dry isn't as funny as Running With Scissors, it's still funny. Augusten Burroughs had a crazy childhood, leading to his dependency on alcohol. This is told in the same very funny way Running was. It's a good read!
I thought it was much better than Running With Scissors, although I liked that as well. It is funny in places, laugh-out-loud funny even, but you can also feel his pain in dealing with his best friend's AIDS and in recovering from alcoholism. Excellent book.
loved it!!!!!!!!!!
This is my first Augustin Burrough's book and I wasn't sure what to expect. I found this a very quick read and very engaging. Yet, this isn't your classic memoir of a person's downfall where you're watching the trainwreck of a human.
Burroughs is a real human and his writing that likens itself to his thought process and how you might just tell a friend a story over dinner. So it feels less like you're just watching someone's odd/terrible life and there are gems that shine through.
I'm not sure I would have been quite as interested in this if I wasn't in the behavioral health field myself, but what can I say? If it doesn't have drugs, prostitutes, or odd sexual behavior I'm not that interested in it. ;)
Burroughs is a real human and his writing that likens itself to his thought process and how you might just tell a friend a story over dinner. So it feels less like you're just watching someone's odd/terrible life and there are gems that shine through.
I'm not sure I would have been quite as interested in this if I wasn't in the behavioral health field myself, but what can I say? If it doesn't have drugs, prostitutes, or odd sexual behavior I'm not that interested in it. ;)
