Dry: A Memoir
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780857891310 (0857891316)
Publish date: July 1st 2012
Publisher: Atlantic
Edition language: English
Dry picks up about seven years after where Running With Scissors leaves off. At age 24, he has a high-paying job in advertising, which had managed to advertise himself into at age 19 despite no ad experience and no directly related education. At this point in his life, he drinks excessively on a n...
Thank goodness the author acknowledged the criminal behavior of those who were supposed to be responsible adults, but who placed him in situations that no child or even young adult should have faced. In other words, he doesn't simply laugh off his unorthodox upbringing, he acknowledges the fact t...
4.5 stars Dry is the best piece on addiction and alcoholism I've ever read. Augusten Burroughs is one of the best memoirists writing today; his writing is concise and compulsively readable. He sacrifices his likability for the sake of his narrative, which to me is the mark of a good memoirist; he do...
Yes this is a book review and I've got a shovel here and I am digging my grave now... You can always tell when a real alcoholic writes about alcoholism. A lot of writers that just drink a lot or have an alcoholic friend think they can write about it. They can't. They can fake it with people who dr...
I really enjoyed this book. The ending is heart wrenching for sure. I would give this book 4 1/2 stars if Goodreads allowed it.He has a great writing style and is a king at similes.
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