Review: Sober, Not Somber
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2012
It takes a lot of guts for an alcoholic to quit drinking. It takes even more guts to tell the world about it. Paul Carr rejected the standard AA route and quit booze in the most non-anonymous way imaginable: he announced it on his blog, which has thousands of followers. This surprising tale of how a drinker dried out is alternately funny, provocative, and poignant. Carr doesn't preach and he doesn't whine. Instead, he talks honestly--and with wonderfully specific detail--about newfound sober pleasures, such as taking a girl to dinner (and remembering it the next morning), losing beer weight (by walking everywhere rather than stumbling into cabs), and starting a new business in Las Vegas (scene of countless of his drunken misadventures). His unorthodox Twelve Step process has kept him sober for almost three years. Other folks looking to quit will find this instructive and inspirational--but in a refreshingly irreverent way.