A review by shanniecakes
Dry by Augusten Burroughs

3.0

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.