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Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book/Large Print

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I have been sober 9 years (as of July `98), and the primary reason for that was the Big Book of A.A. I drank for 20 years. It opened for me doors previously slammed shut (by me). It has allowed me to first find soberity and second to continue to grow as a human being. I recommend this book to anyone who may be afflicted with alcoholism or anyone living with a problem drinker. God Bless!

This book is meant to take at face value read it like you read a text book. It is meant and used widely as a text book, and if you can relate to what you read you can gain help from it. Do not complicate it by trying to read between the lines it is very straight forward and to the point. Keep it simple, and take it easy.

Want a new life? Read it! Read the black bits, don't put anything into the white bits and find a freedom you never imagined you could have.

having been a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous for many, many years - I highly recommend this book. If you are searching for a solution to the disease of alcoholism - this is it. Remember, it works only if you live it and nothing changes when nothing changes.{Cadillac Mike}

This book offers a life preserver for someone who is drowning in alcohol. The reader can accept or reject it. I accepted it and it saved my life. I have been sober for 10 years, one day at a time.

This book is difficult to read and comprehend as it was wriiten some 50 years ago using old arcahic english...It has helped some people stay sober though...Thats why I gave it two stars, but it is hard to read and didn't hold my interst very well.

This book is very simple and straight forward.It can show an alcoholic how to live as opposed to dying from the chronic illness.It's message is for those who want it! Lord knows many NEED it.It,s 12step program may also and is used to help many other people break away from there addictions. I highly recomend it to the alcoholic and those who live with them and there addiction also!

I drank for over twenty years and got to a place where I no longer wanted to drink but couldn't quit on my own.Even though this book was written over 60 years ago there is experience,strength and hope in it that you too can quit drinking.I had a living problem and this book and the help of other alcoholics have helped me to live a clean and sober happy life.It can also help someone who has a family member or friend with a drinking problem.

Bill Wilson wrote this no-nonsense book filled with strength and hope for alcoholics everywhere.

In it, he illustrates the famous 12-step program.

Recommended reading for alcoholics: full blown and recovering.

May the Lord Bless you and keep you; may he make his face to shine upon you. :)

This path is not for everyone- it is for those who believe that they must have a Calvinistic, dualistic, Christianity inspired method to cope with their addiction.

However, many of the premises of this book are simply hogwash. To wit:

1. "One drink, one drunk." This has been proven false numerous times in double blind tests. The truth is, it's the heavy drinker's *beliefs* about alchohol's presence and its effects that counts.

2. The "progressive" nature of the "disease." For most people, this just ain't so- even for most of those with heavy drinking problems.

3. AA is the "last house on the block." Not so- there's numerous ways to "get sober."

There has been much behavioral research since this book was first published. While some *may* benefit from such groups for a short time, the notion that people have a *disease* which is "arrested" by associating with people who have drunk too much is not borne out by what data there is.

I know I will get much responses from people claiming the "program" "helped" them, but for every one of these, there's another person that said and DID, "I don't want substances to control my life, and I don't want crazy people to tell me what to do."