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Dead Drunk: Saving Myself from Alcoholism in a Thai Monastery by Paul Garrigan (Paperback, 2010)
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Paul Garrigan travelled to Thailand with the intention of drinking himself to death. He had been a chronic alcoholic for the previous decade and had destroyed his own life and the lives of those around him. Now he was ready to die. It was in Bangkok in the most unlikely of places that he heard of Wat Thamkrabok, a Buddhist monastery in northern Thailand that offered radical treatments to alcoholics and drug addicts. Believing this was his last chance, Garrigan spent some time with the monks detoxing, and then went on to rebuild his life. Dead Drunk is a memoir of alcoholism. It is story of redemption, and of how one man found sobriety. It is a story of hope.Product Identifiers
PublisherMaverick House
ISBN-139781905379699
eBay Product ID (ePID)92690854
Product Key Features
Publication Year2010
TopicMemorials
Book TitleDead Drunk: Saving Myself from Alcoholism in a Thai Monastery
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorPaul Garrigan
FormatPaperback
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Item Height198 mm
Item Weight194 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureIreland
Title_AuthorPaul Garrigan
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- 19 May, 2017
Easy Reading but Boring
What it says on the tin really, about this chap getting dead drunk on a regular basis, develops liver problems then goes to stay in a Thai Monastry for a bit under two weeks. Whilst delightfully easy reading it is completely devoid of indepth character development, which made it rather boring to me. I think Paul's girlfriends, associates could have been fleshed out alot more, as could Paul himself. There were a couple of occasions he mentioned "crazy things" he had done when drunk but none of this was shared. This left the book as a pretty bland journey of drinking lots and going to various rehabs, with not alot apparently happening inbetween ending with a short stint at a Thai monastry, the way it read to me the guys liver damage was as much a contributing factor to him stopping drinking in conjunction with his time at the monastry as opposed to some amazing experience of enlightenment he had there.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
