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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32370.Dry_A_Memoir?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Dry: A Memoir" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168389326m/32370.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32370.Dry_A_Memoir?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Dry: A Memoir</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3058.Augusten_Burroughs">Augusten Burroughs</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8396081?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars i bought this at the airport powells when we missed our plane check-in by three minutes. i don't know why i bought it, since i had already packed half a dozen other books to read on our 7-day cruise. i was only luke warm about burroughs' other book, his crazy family book. maybe the thought of spending the next week cooped up with my family on a boat made me want to be an alcoholic. or maybe i was shamed when i slipped and told seth's mom, during seth's brief bi-monthly phone call from airport, that we missed our flight. he glared. his mom seemed aghast. i couldn't understand what the big deal was, but then i had to remember that his family was different than mine, his doesn't do accidental or chaotic or uncouth things, his are well-mannered, and they make their flights on time. 
 
 so i bought this book as a split-second rebellion, a celibration of crazy family antics. but it is not more about burroughs' family, it is about the afterbirth of his dysfunctional childhood: years of extreme alcoholism. it dragged at the beginning, and i needed to stop reading sometimes cause i was so damn tired of him talking about himself, and i just didn't care any more about his stupid problems. but it's a freaking memoir so what did i expect. it got better, and i ended up liking the final chapters a lot. in the end, it weighed in as pretty good, though not great. and on the cruise, i drank with my family well enough.
 
 
 
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missy's review
rating:
bookshelves: own
recommended for: drunks

i bought this at the airport powells when we missed our plane check-in by three minutes. i don't know why i bought it, since i had already packed half a dozen other books to read on our 7-day cruise. i was only luke warm about burroughs' other book, his crazy family book. maybe the thought of spending the next week cooped up with my family on a boat made me want to be an alcoholic. or maybe i was shamed when i slipped and told seth's mom, during seth's brief bi-monthly phone call from airport, that we missed our flight. he glared. his mom seemed aghast. i couldn't understand what the big deal was, but then i had to remember that his family was different than mine, his doesn't do accidental or chaotic or uncouth things, his are well-mannered, and they make their flights on time.

so i bought this book as a split-second rebellion, a celibration of crazy family antics. but it is not more about burroughs' family, it is about the afterbirth of his dysfunctional childhood: years of extrem...more

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