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Title: Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 0385315546 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Alcoholism Book I've Read!
Comment: I've spent 26 of the past 28 years as a sober, happy, recovering alcoholic. This is the best-written account I've seen of how it feels, how we deceive ourselves and others, the struggle of secrecy and denial, the battle of recovery, etc.
I found it very much like a long, heart to heart conversation with Caroline, and was sad when she stopped talking to me. I wanted more!
I loved it so much I immediately ordered eight copies for friends and family, and planned to write Caroline to thank her. Sounds like she'd be a delightful dinner companion! Broke my heart to read tonight that she died of lung cancer last summer...alas, probably from all those cigarettes with the booze.
I find it fascinating that 95% of reviewers think it is very well-written, magnificent,compelling---and 5% think it is awful, repetitious, boring. Can't help wondering which are alcoholic!
If you or anyone in your family has a problem, or thinks they may have a problem with alcohol, this book may save your life.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you think you have a drinking problem ....read this book!
Comment: I cannot say enough about this book. This was THE book that helped me see that I was an alcoholic. As a woman I read this book and thanked God that Carolyn had the courage to write it. I recognized myself in almost every page. If you have ever stayed awake at night wondering if you have a drinking problem ......you do! Carolyn describes the living hell that it is to be an alcoholic.....in a way that ONLY somebody who has been there can. Her passing so early in life is very sad and so is the fact that we will never get a chance to grow in sobriety along with her. She leaves an extremely powerful book as a legacy and I strongly recommend it to all addiction counselors as a way to really feel, and maybe understand, what it is like to suffer this addiction. Alcoholism is a devastating disease, and especially so for women......I encourage women who drink, or know someone who drinks too much......please read this remarkable book.
Rating: 2
Summary: waiting for it to sink in
Comment: I have a dual diagnosis mental health disorder with alcohol abuse. I was expecting deeper insight and inspiration from this book but was disappointed. I was frustrated with the lack of depth in her narrative and descriptions of personal relationships. I found the jumps in time from her thirties back to her twenties, to recovery, back to her teens, etc., confusing. It seemed that each chapter could have offered more but kept reverting to trite phrases about alcoholism instead of her unique experience. I wish she had imparted more about her recovery phase. The ending seemed tacked on and in sum the book seemed very shiney, market-driven and aimed directly for the best-seller list. I am left wondering, however, that possibly her point is, you simply have to hear the basic truths over and over again to thoroughly understand rationalization, self harm, the nature of cyclic addiction, etc., before you can begin to recover. Some things hit home for me, especially passages about her relationship with her father and certain anecdotes (like drunken calls to friends in the western time zone - I thought that was just me). But I don't grant her much respect as a writer since she shows blatant disregard for the mentally ill with repeated references to "other people worse off" who "literally" go "crazy." I would recommend anyone struggling with alcohol supplement this with AA literature and other readings mentioned in the book.
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Title: Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 1582432252 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs by Caroline Knapp ISBN: 0385317018 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Drinking Life: A Memoir by Pete Hamill ISBN: 0316341029 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Thinking Person's Guide to Sobriety by Bert Pluymen ISBN: 0312254288 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Life by Devon Jersild ISBN: 0060929901 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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