A review by hoserlauren
Dry by Augusten Burroughs

4.0

This was an interesting look in to the life of an alcoholic who is sent to rehab thinking it'll be a nice break rather than to actually deal with his problem. The first round of rehab seemed all too simple for him, but I had to remember to take everything with a grain of salt. Though this is supposedly Burroughs' autobiography, you could tell it was embellished and some of the timelines didn't make sense. For example, [SPOILER] near the end of the book he says he had been relapsed longer than he had been sober and then he gets a call from the jeweler a few month's after PigHead's death. PigHead's death caused him to relapse so a few months is not longer than the 9 months he spent sober.

In any case, it was easy to get absorbed by this book and the life that Burroughs was leading. I haven't read his other autobiography about his childhood, which he provides some very interesting and scary glimpses in to, but I'm interested in reading it now.