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Summary: Cheers!
Review: I raise a toast to Augusten Burroughs for "Dry." This is a brilliant account of alcoholism. It is not addiction in the streets, it is addiction in the world of the successful and influential. No one has handled addiction by the affluent since Rikki Lee Travolta did in "My Fractured Life." Read it with a bottle beside you, even if you don't drink it - it will make you feel like a part of their world.
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Summary: Skillfully and Masterfully Comical
Review: Augusten Burroughs is a brilliant author. I have thought that since reading "Sellevision" and reaffirmed the notion with "Running With Scissors." "Dry" is his most powerful and witty book to date. Evoking strong connotations of Rikki Lee Travolta's authentic Los Angeles diary of addiction "My Fractured Life", Burroughs is equally honest and skillfully comical in his take on addiction in New York. Destined to be tied together in history for their similar writing styles in the same way Brett Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Less Than Zero) and Jay McInerney (Bright Lights Big City, Model Behavoir) were in the 80s; Burroughs captures the same manic zeal that Travolta has in using cleaver mixes of self deprecating humor and Windex shiny clarity. Any fan of the styles initiated in "My Fractured Life" and "Running With Scissors" should be sincerely taken with the mastery and enjoyment of "Dry."
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Summary: addiction and the causes
Review: Donice Newhouse, A reviewer,
addiction and the causes
this to me is a very powerful book. It shows the addictions, yes...but i want to know what brings on the addictions in the first place. This book gives me that. I am a non fiction buff...I want the heart of the story...this book does that for me. Very well written and highly recommended.Also recommending: Nightmares Echo, Running With Scissors,Lucky
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Summary: Read it in 7 hours flat...left me feeling affected
Review: Having never read anything of Augusten's before, I had no expectations going into the book. But it didn't take long for his humorous, skillful writing peppered with poignant heart-wrenching truths to completely consume me. I read this book in about 7 hours, cover to cover. I simply could NOT put it down. The hard-core reality of alcoholism (and recovery) was a topic I never explored. But while reading this, I found deep paralells to my own eating addiction. In some ways, I think I've had a mini-epiphany because of reading this book. In the back of my mind, a little voice is telling me "YOU need to go to OA". This is not just another detailed account of one man's glorified drunken adventures. The majority of the book is spent during the recovered times, bringing a sharp and focused clarity to the character. I strongly recommend this book if you are in denial about any of your addictions...it might just illuminate your darkness.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Ok, Augusten, when is your next memoir coming out? I want to know who this Dennis is? How you met him? Why French Bulldogs and how long it took you to get back into life after pigman died? I love your writing!! Keep the books coming and keep the articles in OUT coming too. You are hilarious as well as extremely talented!!!
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Summary: hyped cadavar
Review: Please: 'brutally honest', 'twisted humor', 'witty anecdotes'? These heavy words so lightly thrown could not screw the potential consumer more royally. People, do not use these terms so loosely, and irresponsibly! All anecdotes are Not clever and witty. All references concerning a lifestyle other than yours are not 'Brutally Honest'. Mention of a alcohol abuse and homosexuality is not 'Twisted Humor' I felt like a used condom after finishing this work that, which was, as often, hyped based on previous successes.
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Summary: A Really Great Follow Up
Review: After reading about Augusten Burroughs train wreck of a childhood in "Running With Scissors", I didn't know if I was up for tackling his alcoholic adulthood in "Dry".
I'm glad I did. And frankly less of a tackle, than a roll with a familiar face/voice, I thought it terrific.
Having just recently read Carrie Fishers "The Best Awful" these books were like damaged book ends that both meet in the middle at rehab. But where the bulk of Fishers book was her lack of pill popping that quickly leads to her prolonged mental breakdown, Burroughs bottoms out near the start of the book, as a successful advertising whiz kid whose normal nightly consumption is at least twelve drinks. His story is of Manhattan as seen through the eyes that couldn't see before. Or at the very least focus. A dear friend sick with AIDS, a high pressure job, and a toxic crack smoking boyfriend are all potential disasters waiting to send him back to the bottle. Funny, dark and terribly honest, it's cup runs over with hope.
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Summary: Excellent Penmanship
Review: running With Scissors was excellent,DRY is even better. I find that these books rank highly with Beauty For Ashes and Nightmares Echo...all clear and precise memoirs about life that many of us will never have gone through or understand.
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Summary: One of the Elite
Review: Augusten Burroughs created a masterpiece when he wrote Running With Scissors. His follow up Dry is one of the rare books to match the brilliance of its predicessor. Burroughs has a rare ability to infuse an interplay of comical musings that tempers the worries of addiction and abuse accounts. This unorthodox delivery introduced in Running With Scissors and carried through in Dry is more in tune with what one would expect from a fiction novelist than in the world of Memoir. In the world of books Dry stands together in the elite world of Running With Scissors, Naked Lunch, and My Fractured Life. It is a richly rewarding book that hits the mark.
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Summary: Dry
Review: An excellent, heartwarming, truthful account of the human being on substance abuse. Very humorous in an spooky sort of way, this could be anyone in anyones life, or themselves. Loved it!
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