Retox: Booze, Use, and Snooze Your Way to Personal Fulfillment (Paperback)

by Jennifer Traig (Author), Victoria Traig (Author), Maria Raymondsdotter (Illustrator) "You've detoxed..." (more)
Key Phrases: Olde English, Red Bull

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (March 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811853292
• ISBN-13: 978-0811853293
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #832,695 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical!, May 1, 2006

By	Salil Maniktahla "Salil" (Arlington, VA.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book after flipping to the "Table of Equivalents" for common drugs and cracked up in the store, laughing like a loon at the home equivalent of Valium ("Old English 800 + mild Concussion + Best of Burt Bacharach on CD," I think it was). Great stuff! It had me in stitches. Ok, it's not deep, but it's really fun to pass around to your friends.

Maybe it's also really fun if you live in San Francisco and need an antidote to the @#!%$^ granola attitude that tries to run you over in the street. Whatever the underlying reason, it's subversive and thus highly enjoyable. :-)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab your adult diapers, folks!, June 28, 2007

By	Lisa Juris "CreatedJust4You" (New Hope PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The UPS man (with whom my husband suspects I am having an affair due to his numerous Amazon deliveries) handed me today's box at around 3:00. Having an insatiable and addictive hunger for new books, I tore into it standing at the kitchen counter and immediately started flipping through Retox. I stood there until I read it cover to cover! It's now 5:28.

The Traig girls have hit it spot on! I could have written this "manual," but they did such a good job of doing it for me, that I was content to sit back and laugh. And laugh. And blow my nose and laugh some more.

If you're familiar with an alternative lifestyle (and by alternative, I mean "Vodka's a breakfast drink"), this is a must read. A party girl's (or guy's) bedside bible. Or you can read it, and immediately recommend it to all of your friends like I did.

Uh oh, the phone's ringing... time to hop on that flight to Planet Pikon 8. But first let me search Amazon for other things borne of their crafty brains.

I loved it. Can you tell? I'd give it 6 stars if it was an option.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very funny, quick read! GREAT for flights., February 5, 2007

By	a girl (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

If you actually know what it's like to get trashed - to drink to much and abuse cold medicine just a bit ... then you will find this book really funny. I mean, some of the stuff was just dead on with it's psuedo-endorsements of the destructive behavior of people who seemingly function normally!

Ok, so, I started reading it on a flight departing from San Francisco, and was done about 2 minutes before we landed in Seattle. 1.5 hours reading max, But it had me chuckling out loud quite a few times, and it's hard for a book to do that. For example, one of the recipes was "Open your cabinet. Take 5 cans of ANYTHING. Put it into a pot. Simmmer for 5 minutes. Serves 6" or something like that (the book makes it sound funnier than I do here). Anyway, I can't explain why I found that so funny, but I did. It's just so absurd, but so spot on.

If you totally don't relate at all to self-destructive sorts of behavior (drinking too much, eating bad stuff, abusing your medicine cabinet for unintended purposes, etc) then you may not find the sheer humor in this. But if you do, it's a great read. A slim book that you should buy and slip into your carryon for your next short flight. It's perfect. 4 stars instead of 5 only for being a very short read.