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Original Title:	Dry: A Memoir
ISBN:	0312423799 (ISBN13: 9780312423797)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Randy Shilts Award Nominee (2004)

Dry

Augusten Burroughs

Paperback | Pages: 293 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 82071 Users | 3457 Reviews

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Title	:	Dry
Author	:	Augusten Burroughs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 293 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2004 by Picador USA (first published January 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Humor. Biography Memoir. LGBT

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You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real.

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"Dry." This book I read the next day... couldn't put it down.The memoir follows Augusten in his success as a mid-20's creative advertiser, which seems like the most appropriate job between Burrough's self-confessed childhood ideal jobs of hairdresser & writer (in "Running w/ Scissors").This one has a different flavor altogether, kind of like the Truffaut series of Antoine Doinel films. Eccentricity reigned supreme with the bunch of freaks in "Running w/ Scissors". "Dry" finds more misfits in

After reading Dry I went over to Cedar Tavern for a martini. I dont normally drink martinis, but according to Augusten Burroughs, the famous Cedar Tavern on University Place in Manhattan serves huge ones (enormous; great bowls of vodka soup) - so you get the most of what you pay for. But as it turned out their martinis are actually rather small, the opposite of Burroughs claim. And the bartender on the second floor told me that the martinis have been the same size for at least five years since

Being a fan of Burroughs after reading Running With Scissors, I picked up a copy of this book and was not disappointed. In it he shares how he became a copywriter in advertising, and how his drinking eventually became very out of control. Eventually his work gave him the option of going to rehab or leaving, and he chose rehab for 30 days. The book is written in his usual funny/sarcastic way, and there is much to think upon between the covers here. It gets quite gritty and real in its look into

Brutally honest. Makes you want to close your eyes and run from the room - but you keep reading.

LOVED IT!

4.5 starsAugusten BurroughsAugusten Burroughs is an American writer who's perhaps best known for his memoir "Running With Scissors", which documents his strange, abusive childhood. In brief, Augusten's parents divorced when he was young, and his unstable mother gave him to her Massachusetts psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. Augusten lived with crazy people in the doctor's filthy home, never went to school, and became the obsession of a pedophile that lived in a barn behind the house. The book was adapted

"The fact is I'm not like other people, I'm like other alcoholics." This was an audio reread of a book I read in print in 2008. This has long been one of my favorite memoirs and will remain so. Augusten is a decent narrator except, when speaking as Foster, he sounds more like Forrest Gump than just a guy with a southern accent. Being from the south myself, that threw me off a little.