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Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism/Third Edition

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While AA may not be the answer for everyone, it is for many thousands of alcoholics and others. 12-Step programs are popular in many places now, based on the Steps to recovery first written in this book. Alcoholics Anonymous has never been on any best seller list, but it has sold over 20 million copies. This is good reason to take seriously what the authors say in this book. I can add my personal testimonial: the 12 Steps have changed my life for the better. Given the choice between potential death or 12 Steps, I will take the Steps!

If you read the directions contained in the first 164 pages of this book and follow them like your life depends on it, you will be on your way to a better life than you ever imagined! This book is your best roadmap to recovering from alcoholism. I entrusted my life to it and have not had to take a drink since November 15, 1985.

I highly recommend it.

And if you ever get confused and you're not sure what to do, go to Page 164 and do what the first 4 sentences of the last paragraph say:

Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us.

See you at the meeting!

Barry T.

Tells you how to recover by turning your life over to the care and direction of God as you understand Him or Her. Tells you how to do the 12 steps of recovery from admitting powerlessness over alcohol (step one) thru working with others (step 12.) You will read the stories of Bill W. and Dr. Bob and other recovered alcoholics. If you are not an alcoholic, it will give you advice on how to deal with alcoholics before, during, and after recovery--one is newer cured.

this book gave me a working relationship with power grater than myself ,that deepens day bye day. I owe my life to this book.

a great book. each time i read it i gain many new insights. the stories at the end of the book reached me 1st. years later i began a serious "working of the steps". through that serious work i did undergo a "profound personality change" which has served me quite well. if a person can accept the sometimes old-fashioned language there is really a lot here that can be profoundly helpful. AA is not the only answer for the alocoholic but it has worked for millions so should at least be taken seriously. In my experience many things heard in an AA meeting do not reflect the premises in this book. So a person has to be smart. read the book, listen at meetings(if you go) but think, read & contemplate. After 20 years of sobriety i return to this book over & over. Not only for a deep comfort but for inspiration & guidance. one last thought: i don't take myself or "everything" so seriously, but i do take my sobriety seriously. good luck - it is a life "second to none".

I never knew I was missing anything until I worked (and still work) the program outlined in this book.

What I found out is that I WAS MISSING in my life and this program gave me that REAL life back.

I you want to drink, that's your business...if you want to stop, that's AA's business...give it a try, you have NOTHING to lose but your misery.

In my experience, when dealing with alcoholism, it beneficial to look at the things I have in common and not what I find different. This books talks more about the solution and not so much the why.

This book is, much like the program Alcoholics Anonymous, a gift truly Divinely inspired. I have not had a drink since July 10th of 1997, but before this day, I had to drink on a daily basis to survive. This is the greatest thing which has ever happened to me and even if I live to be 100 years old, I will never be able to repay A.A. for what it has done for me and my loved ones!

AA isn't for everyone, only those who can't stop by themselves, it's pretty simple. And as you can see from some previous reviewers, "SOME ARE SICKER THAN OTHERS". Only the most closed and narrow minded won't be able to make it work. All it takes is a little willingness and honesty. Everyone dies someday and in one aspect, an alcoholic has 3 choices. Die Drunk, Die drunk and having failed at AA, Die sober. Just beyond me though at how some people can be so hateful of those striving for the third option or the "cult" that brings it all together.

To me, this book represented many spiritual laws and principles that I have discovered in many other books, but are conveniently wrapped up into 12 steps in this book. Scholars and philosophers, religious people of all times have never summed up so beautifully a simple, easy way to clean your heart and open it to God. Thank you Lord (my HP)