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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
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That Augusten Burroughs is alive is a miracle. That he made his mentally damaging childhood seem silly and quirky in Running with Scissors and [b:Magical Thinking|7815|The Year of Magical Thinking|Joan Didion|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165644384s/7815.jpg|1659905] is another. It may be that the downturn in his writing is reflective of the subject matter, but I found Dry to be his least successful work. Gone is the consistent snarkiness that I found so appealing in his other novels. It is replaced by parroting of AA-isms, which though he claims to not entirely believe, does not bother to refute. His transformations and revelations seem less than complete. I was expecting extravagance and sugar coating from Burroughs, and this novel seemed, well... Dry.
emotional
This was really emotional, especially towards the end. I just wish the thing that finally made Augustin give up alcohol again was the jewelry pig head made for him, but nothing you can do when it's a memior
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse
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eh, i thought i was gonna really enjoy this, considering how quickly 'running with scissors' went by, even though i didnt REALLY love it, and how much i loved the excerpt from 'lust and wonder' --but, shrug, it was pretty cliche and... predictable and stagnant? to me. and he seemed pretty uhnlikable, and i kept thinking there would be justifications for this or acknowledgements, but there weren't, really. (although i do think i saw more of his 'funny' side)
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