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Summary: A great book for me!
Review: I had the same love affair Caroline Knapp had and suffered the same results. I totally identified with this story and it has nothing to do with her background or career. It has to do with the feelings that come with being a drunk. Alcohalism doesn't discriminate and it doesn't care were your from or how much money you have in your pocket. There are not to many books about alcohalism written by women about themselves and I am glad Miss Knapp had the courage to do it
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Summary: I recommend this book for anyone interested in alcoholism.
Review: Ms. Knapp's memoir of her love affair with alcohol is filled with pain and hope. She holds no punches and her honesty and self-examination are often startlingly intense. As a social worker and substance abuse counselor I have already recommended this book to many of my clients. Not only is it informative, it reads as fluidly as any page-turner I have ever read
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Summary: Self-absorbed and ultimately boring
Review: While not totally uninteresting, I've read it before. It got on my nerves how Knapp kept going on about being intelligent, special, from a fine family, etc., etc. For a book that's supposed to be revealing, she remains oblivious to others' relationship with her
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Summary: A true love affair story, that is hard to put down.
Review: Caroline Knapps story is similar to my own. I am also an alcoholic and found it facinating that she called it a love story. Alcohol for many years in my life was a love affair and one of the most tormenting of my life. She addresses every facet of the drink, the emotions expressed are on the money. She is truly gifted
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Summary: A candid, yet warm review of a life going haywire.
Review: Although lacking in the details of therapy, Caroline Knapp
writes a warm, if sometimes brutal, account of a life gone
haywire, and then retrieved. Recovering alcoholics will see
themselves in virtually every page.
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Summary: extremely valuable book to read about self discovery
Review: I think this is perhaps one of the most important books to
be written on the topic of alcoholism and self-discovery. It is deeply moving to see how she built her life around alcohol and
then to see her dismantle that dependence. It took a lot of courage
for her to "come out" this way and she is to be commended for it.
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Summary: I was 12-stepped by this book
Review: I was browsing in a bookstore waiting for my comet photos to be developed when I saw this book on the "New" shelf. I started reading, and then put it back when it was time to pick up my pictures. But I couldn't stop thinking about this book, so I went back and bought it. I read it at the kitchen table while drinking a glass of wine. Alarm bells kept clanging and clanging. When I got halfway through, I realized I was just like her--a highly educated writer with a drinking problem. She has a great line in there--that sometimes insight is just a reversal of cause and effect. I don't drink because I have all these problems, I have all these problems because I drink! With horror and tears, I called a friend I knew in AA who brought me to a meeting. I've been clean and sober now for 5 years. I read in the NY Times today that Carolyn Knapp died yesterday from lung cancer at only 42 years of age. That makes me very sad. I feel very grateful to her and her wonderful book. It changed my life.
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Summary: Praise from a recovering alcoholic male
Review: I read this book initially as a practicing alcoholic in denial, and then in early recovery. I loved the book the first time recognizing the honesty and courage. The author's style was very pleasing. Now, I appreciate the honesty, courage, and accuracy. I go to A.A. meetings every day, and A.A. is my family now. I wondered, "What could this book offer that I wasn't already getting?" The fact is that this book offered wisdom I hadn't heard before, such as, in decision making, how to tell the difference between the alcoholic alternative and the better choice. I re-read this two days ago, and used it today. I won't spill the beans. You'll have to read the book to learn.In A.A., sponsors are always the same sex as the sponsee. I wondered what insight I could get from a female alcoholic. I learned tht this is not an issue. I strongly recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Another boring plug for AA
Review: It is hard to believe that an auto-biography about an alcoholic can be boring. But alas, Ms. knapp has done just that. There are no fun or embarrassing stories on her expense. She just analyzes the hell out of her over priveleged childhood and constantly refers to herself as professional and pretty. Apparently we are supposed to be shocked because she drank too many cognacs at some snobby social party. This woman isn't an alcoholic, she is an amateur writer yearning to join the ranks of Hemingway. She constantly romanticizes about his hardships and alcohol induced anguish. I suppose her previous auto-biography (I kid you not) about her battle with anorexia didn't get her enough attention. I wonder what the next disease- of- the- week she will suffer from and write a book about? Guys beware, this has female liberation all over it. Ms. knapp writes about getting plowed with booze and going home with a stranger, and blaming it on him the next morning , because she was taken advantage of because she was so drunk and he should have known better. She then follows that up with a date rape chapter. This book did make good firewood though.
1 star.
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Summary: She captured my thoughts
Review: Caroline Knapp captures exactly how you feel when you are fighting the good fight with alcoholism. Her descriptions were just perfect. I read this shortly after getting into recovery, I could have never dealt with it before. This was really a very enlightening book for me and I recommend it highly. If you see yourself in this book, please get help.
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