Published By: Little Brown, Company
Pages: Soft Cover
Ratings: 5 JAGS
Depressingly good! Bill Clegg revisits his struggle as a recovering
addict in this sequel to his best-selling novel, Portrait of an Addict as aYoung Man. The story begins where Addict left off, raw, emotional and a poignant
climb to redemption of personal journey to stay clean and sober for 90 days.
Clegg continues with his paragraph prose and invites the
reader on a ride exploring the faults of personal recovery and how a simple 90
days can turn into a life time of hardship and regret. In this story, Bill befriends
allies in a series of meetings and ultimately finds the strength to beat
relapsing not from the differences of addictions, but the simple truth that he
will always be an addict struggling to stay clean.
Dark and heart-wrenching, Ninety Days is a triumphant tale
of rediscovery and strength of how Bill Clegg managed to beat the siren call of
a crack pipe and regain footing with just one day at a time.
Personal favorite as oppose to his earlier work, I would
still not purchase new. Instead, wait for a copy at your local resale
bookstore. The $25 you would use to purchase this work could easily be used to
buy a bag of books from a resale shop and still walk away excited about this
read.
A definite quick read, worth the 5 bucks if you wait for it
at your local yard sale, resale bookstore or Kindle it for the price savings.
Another crack attack, spiraling down into black, put it all in a book, "hey world, take a look," it's been done, nothing new under the son, the one constant song, "where did I go wrong?"
ReplyDeleteThis is how you are made low, openly admitting you did blow, you tripled that mistake, jotting down every cankering detail for our sake, get some pride, keep it to yourself, a book like yours belongs on nobody's shelf.
Chris Roberts
It would be a lie Chris if I said I didn't enjoy reading your comment...
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