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Sto caricando le informazioni... Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Lifedi Neil Steinberg
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A great read! Neil is a reporter at a newspaper in Chicago and is a great writer! I hope he stays sober. ( ) This unflinching account of Sun Times columnist Neil Steinberg’s descent into alcoholism and resulting arrest for domestic violence doesn’t spare the depraved details of these misfortunes. If you are an alcoholic, this book will likely strengthen your resolve not to drink. If you are not an alcoholic, it will make you thankful you will never be reduced to drinking off the vanilla extract or pawing through the garbage for a few remaining drops out of a wine bottle in efforts to quiet your thirst for devil juice. Best line: “Who looks back on any event in the past and wishes he had drunk more? Nobody.” True dat. I had a really hard time reading this book. Everything felt disjointed and fragmented. There wasn't any time flow that I could follow. To me, it was just thoughts and things that happened randomly thrown to the reader. And worse, the things thrown didn't capture my attention as they never felt complete. I applaud people telling all in the attempts to recover in their lives and in doing so helping others. However, you have to do it in a way people connect to the story, either through the reader's own experiences and relating to yours through those memories, or by making an emotional connecting with your story that does not rely on the reader's experiences. This memoir fell very short for me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."--Chicago Magazine Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking. As Steinberg claws his way through recovery, grieves the loss of the drink, and tries to shore up his faltering marriage, he is confronted by the greatest test he has ever faced, and finds himself in the process. Steinberg's gripping memoir is a frank and often painfully funny account of the stark-yet-common realities of a disease that affects millions. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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