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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
Never had a read a memoir that is both so difficult to read and so page-turning. Knapp's journey to sobriety is heart-wrenching and she so completely brings us with her into the world of addiction (without glamorizing it in the least--in fact she quite successfully makes it completely repelling). I've had loved ones in my life who have been alcoholics, and I wish I'd read this book years ago, to gain a better understanding of what they went through. I never understood before. And while I can never understand it from the inside (dear God, no!), I feel like I have a sympathy I didn't have before.
This was easily the best read on alcoholism for me. I really heard things for the first time while reading this despite being almost 6 years sober. About 3/4 through I found out she’d died not long after publishing and that just floored me - she felt so alive while reading this and I kept picturing her now :(
One of the recommendations from So Many Books...So Little Time.
Great story, excellent writing. She was sober until her untimely death at 42 from lung cancer.
Great story, excellent writing. She was sober until her untimely death at 42 from lung cancer.
4.5 rounded up because of the superb writing. Addiction stories fascinate me. A couple of friends have had to stop drinking in recent years, and I feel compelled to better understand the demons that plague people suffering from alcoholism. Knapp’s memoir is honest, vulnerable and straightforward. She doesn’t sugarcoat any stage of her journey, nor does she proselytize. The reader follows her story from her first drink to the last and beyond, seeing how alcoholism can creep up unexpectedly like a sneaky shadow that suddenly envelops you.
Learning that the author passed away from lung cancer at age 42 was heartbreaking. She’d struggled most of her adult life to get to a place of peace and reconciliation, and she was only able to live in that space for a handful of years.
The narrator on the Audible version is phenomenal.
Learning that the author passed away from lung cancer at age 42 was heartbreaking. She’d struggled most of her adult life to get to a place of peace and reconciliation, and she was only able to live in that space for a handful of years.
The narrator on the Audible version is phenomenal.
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The book was okay. After I read it I found out the author died in 2002 at the age of 42 from lung cancer and that just wrecked me. The idea of life being so wasted and then so short is hard to reconcile.
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I read this book in 1996 when it came out and again 29 years later and it still tracks. No amount of technology or distractions created since this book was written can topple the powerful grip alcohol and addiction has on humanity.
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