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Review title: Intriguing story from a growing writer
Product review: I'll admit I didn't like this book much immediately after I finished it, but so much of it has continued to haunt me that I've changed my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of confessionals, but this is one that is so competently done that it can't be overlooked.Dry is sort of Volume 2 of Burroughs' memoirs and tells the story of his struggle with alcoholism and a friend dying of AIDs (I'm hoping he writes a Volume 1 and a half to fill in the gaps between the two books). There's a lot of dark humor here, and a lot of plain old "dark". It's a completely different approach from the one he used in "Running with Scissors," and a far more effective one. Although not as "entertaining" as his first book, it's also not as flippant or dismissable. He's taken on a huge challenge as a writer to examine some bleak periods and convey them in a way that will appeal to many readers. He mostly succeeds in a big way.
