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As a follow-up to his bestselling work, Running with Scissors, Burroughs gives more insight to the experiences that created the author we know today. This time, with Dry, he tackles his dependency on alchol and how he let it get the best of him, until he saw the light. We follow Burroughs from realization to reheb to relapse and back again to realization. Only an author with a flair for writing and knack for humor can make a situation that can be deemed extremely horrifying seem like a fun, rollicking adventure. Burroughs takes us on the ride of a lifetime through the world of alcohol and drug addiction, and makes non-addicts never want to test the waters and makes recovering addicts glad that they have chosen to change. Read this book if you are looking for a good look at someone else's life, and in the age of reality television, this is definitely one book you don't want to pass up.

Ursula, Memoir fan
This book is a wonderful piece of literature. It is hard to put down and you are given the lessons to understand addictions in its raw forms. Addictions of any kind, take a toll on the person. This author does well to tell us his story and to make us understand what it is like to walk in his shoes. You also are shown 'HOW' this addiction comes about. The abuse is abuse...is abuse theory. That people live what they are taught in so many ways. What a compelling piece of work. I would also like to mention here a few other Memoir style books that have captured my attention the way that 'DRY' has. They are: 'NIGHTMARES ECHO,MY FRACTURED LIFE and RUNNING WITH SCISSORS. Read 'DRY'!!!

<br /> He admits hes a drunk, admits he fails to come home...admits that he is basically forced to under go rehab. But deep within the book you understand the reasons why he got to that point. He is honest about the difficulties in returning back to where he once was, only he has to do it sober. This is a moving memoir, funny and at times heartbreaking. More importantly it is real and courageous. Courageous like other books I have read, Nightmares Echo and A Child Called It,including but not limited to his other book, Running With Scissors, Dry is the story of love, loss,and finding your way back when everyone else gave up.<br />