Dry by Augusten Burroughs Pg 30-121

So far, I am loving this book. Augusten is an alcoholic who is sent to rehab by his job. So far, he has made it out of rehab and has been sober for over a month. Now, Augusten is going to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) Meetings so that he can stay clean. This can be connected to the previous book I read, Fight Club. In fight club, Tyler, an insomniac, goes to random meetings with cancer, parasite, tumor, and other kinds of patients. Listening to how unfortunate these other people's lives were made him feel better about himself and helped him to sleep. In Dry, Augusten realizes from these meetings that his situation is not a bad as a lot of other alcoholics' situations and this drives him to continue to try to stay sober. In both books, the drive for the main characters to accomplish their goals is seeing that if people worse off than them could do it, so could they. I'm really liking the book Dry because it is a true story, so it really shows how people can overcome addictions.