Summary of Augusten Burroughs's Dry

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The advertising industry is based on giving people false expectations. It’s a perfect career for me because it’s based on giving people false expectations.
#2 I am not used to rules and structure, and so I have a hard time keeping the phone connected and the electricity turned on. I place all my bills in a box, which I keep next to the stove.
#3 I was waltzing around the Met looking at Fabergé eggs. I made wads of cash, but I spent my days waltzing around the Met looking at Fabergé eggs. I hated my job. I should get a real job.
#4 I once met a man who had a female body with a decapitated head. He put the head on the other end of a stick and pushed it through the neck. He put the body in a white cashmere turtleneck and it looked pretty good.

Sujets

• Alcohol

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 09 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669352495
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Augusten Burroughs's Dry
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The advertising industry is based on giving people false expectations. It’s a perfect career for me because it’s based on giving people false expectations.

#2

I am not used to rules and structure, and so I have a hard time keeping the phone connected and the electricity turned on. I place all my bills in a box, which I keep next to the stove.

#3

I was waltzing around the Met looking at Fabergé eggs. I made wads of cash, but I spent my days waltzing around the Met looking at Fabergé eggs. I hated my job. I should get a real job.

#4

I once met a man who had a female body with a decapitated head. He put the head on the other end of a stick and pushed it through the neck. He put the body in a white cashmere turtleneck and it looked pretty good.

#5

I arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at a quarter before nine. I am wearing a charcoal gray Armani suit and oxblood red Gucci loafers. My head throbs dully behind my eyes, but this has become normal. It usually wears off by the end of the day and is completely gone after the first drink of the evening.

#6

I was so relieved when I got home, I was grateful to be away from people and their questions about my drinking. I was also panic-stricken when I woke up at 12:04 p. m. the next day, because I had to attend a global brand meeting at 10 a.

#7

I was late to a global perfume meeting, and when I entered the room, everyone was standing up and packing up their papers. I was accused of being drunk by my boss, Elenor.

#8

When I was late to a meeting, Greer was furious. She said I was bringing down the team, and that I was destroying my career as well as hers. She said I had a problem, and it was affecting both of us.

#9

I am thinking these things while perched on the edge of my dining table, which I never use for dining, but as a large desk. I grab the bottle of Dewar’s to refill my glass, but I lose my balance and fall over on the floor, smashing my forehead against the base of my stereo speaker.

#10

I was summoned to Elenor’s office, and she told me that I had a drinking problem and it was affecting my work. I was going to need to do something about it immediately.

#11

Elenor, the head of human resources, came to talk to me about my drinking. She said that the company could not continue to have a creative on the account who was late for meetings, showed up drunk, or smelled of alcohol. She said that it did not look good for the company.

#12

I would have to quit my job and go to rehab, or agree to a thirty-day stay in a treatment center. I would be expected back in just over a month, clean and sober.

#13

I am checking into rehab, and my best friend, Pighead, is glad I am going. He explains that I am a disaster when I drink, and that if I am so foul and awful, why be friends with me.

#14

I am constantly drinking around Pighead, and we never get bored of each other. We never bore each other, and we both realize what a rare thing this is. I never drink around him, and still we get along perfectly.

#15

I was excited to go to rehab, but when I called the hospital and made the appointment, I was depressed by the thought of going there. The woman on the phone depressed me completely. I felt very uncomfortable on my sofa.

#16

I have accepted Pulitzer Prizes, Academy Awards, and met wonderful people while drinking. I was addicted to Bewitched as a kid, and when I saw Darren Stevens the First, I would think, Would my dad like a drink. He always seemed thirsty.

#17

I get drunk and call my father. I tell him I’m checking into a rehab hospital, and that I’ll be gone for thirty days. He doesn’t want to talk about it, but he is worried about my job. I am a grown man now, not a little wounded boy.

#18

I told my father that I knew he had sexually abused me. I was able to see the burning tip of the cigarette because I was drunk, and I knew it wasn’t because I was drunk that I was imagining it, it was because I was drunk and my own head was out of the way.