H M. (anchovy) reviewed on + 296 more book reviews
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My favorite memoir of addiction remains "Drinking: A Love Story" by Caroline Knapp, where she does a great job of explaining what is going on in the mind of a functional but deeply pickled alcoholic, followed by "Dry" by Augustin Burroughs in which he shows how some of the goofiest parts of AA really do help save people.
I did enjoy reading "Parched" too, and it showed a different part of the picture; the life of a very intelligent woman who had a caring family and a few good friends, but who was basically doomed by her third sip of beer at age 13.
My favorite quote: "I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about 15 minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came ... Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again. And all my efforts were doomed, because already drinking hadn't made me feel good in years."
I did enjoy reading "Parched" too, and it showed a different part of the picture; the life of a very intelligent woman who had a caring family and a few good friends, but who was basically doomed by her third sip of beer at age 13.
My favorite quote: "I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about 15 minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came ... Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again. And all my efforts were doomed, because already drinking hadn't made me feel good in years."
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