Marie's Reviews> This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Big fat thumbs down. I was so disappointed. Mr. Burroughs, I think you've gotten a little big for your britches, sir! There has always been some egotism to your writing, but it was in a dark twisty way. This... this is like you've discovered the keys to the kingdom yourself. You bash a particular 12 step program, yet most of what you ramble off in what is supposed to be this shocking "can he really say that" way, has the same principles & foundations learned in other places... some of which you were probably exposed to and then passed it off as your own. This was my biggest disappointment. Not that you dislike or disagree with the program but that you specifically stated it by name, that you used to be a member, and that you found it useless. Of course you are entitled to your own opinion, but for a man who was so influential in the sober community with your book Dry, I would think you could recognize not to say something that may deter someone from taking this path just because you disagree. You are one man & that program has saved millions world wide. This book was not a work of genius.