Dry: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs is a gay, self-absorbed ad exec who likes to drink. A lot. Dewar’s is his drink of choice.

When his drinking problem interferes with his work one time too many, he is sent to rehab in Minnesota. He dries out and returns to New York with a new attitude. He attends meetings and therapy, and all is well.

Until he relapses!

I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I liked the prelude to rehab. I liked the rehab experience. But the relapse was more than I could handle. Burroughs is hard to like as it is (so freakin’ full of himself), but as a crack smoking drunk? Impossible.

2/18/10