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I disliked this book for several reasons. One trivial issue and not worth deducting stars is the numerous grammatical and spelling errors. I don't understand how someone can publish a book that hasn't been edited properly. The title is extremely misleading. Also, it was much too excruciatingly detailed to keep my interest.
The author spends pages -- chapters! And exactly how many times he masturbated. And how many orgasms he had during each meaningless sexual encounter. How did this advance any narrative? More importantly, the overwhelming misogynistic attitude was truly nauseating. These are but a few examples; the book is rife with more. Most importantly, this guy clearly behaves like a sociopath. He then gets a job as a server there and promptly gets fired for being late, being drunk on the job, and acting like a d-bag to customers.
He buys bottles of lighter fluid with the intention of burning the place to the ground. Fortunately, he passes out drunk before he can carry out his arsonist intent. Over and over, I was sickened by his wholesale absence of humanity. I get it, he was in active addiction, but he seemed so smug about his depravity that I truly believe he has a taint in his blood.
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A sober sociopath is still a sociopath. There is no reason to buy this book; there are many other memoirs of addiction and recovery that are better written, more insightful, or less relentlessly horrifying. Take the positive reviews with a grain of salt; several 5-star reviews come from family members. I picked this one up because I know people who suffer from addiction and wanted to get a glimpse into what they go through.
The writing is decent - you feel disturbingly in the moment with him - but the editing could be improved. It's an unflinching honest account of alcohol, drug, exercise, and sex addiction on a number of levels, repeated ad nauseum. The author primarily seems to brag about his exploits - so many drinks, so many drugs, so many women - with a random line about knowing it wasn't right just to make it sound better.
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It's a mix between a confessional and, well, drunken bragging at the bar. I've heard it said that an addict is a piece of sh! Everything is about feeding the addictions, with little concern or even humanizing of people around him. Women are referred to in increasingly deragatory fashion, friends are only there to help keep the buzz going, beating up on a homeless man gives him a new lease on life, etc. Meanwhile, he can drink the most, have the most sex, and he's in great shape due to an additional exercise addiction. Did he break the addiction, and shed the cold reptilian brain that just wants pleasure?
I hope so, for his sake and those who love him. I skimmed the last chapter and it seems there's some possibility, but I couldn't read until the end to find out for myself. As memoirs go, they mostly suck. But the topic drug and alchohol abuse is a deadly serious one, especially today with the legalization of marijuana. Our children are at risk more than ever. I decide to educate myself thru the true life expierence of someone who was addicted. After years of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual exploits and destructive self-exploration, David finds himself curled up in the corner of a run-down, empty apartment, guzzling vanilla extract to ward off delirium tremens, and as he strains to hold down the medicinal extract, he wonders what went wrong and how he arrived in hell.
His reptilian brain had begun stirring, prompted by the horrible realization that life had become unbearably stagnant. David gave the beast what it wanted--narcotics, alcohol, casual sex and violence--and it reciprocated by offering up delusions of sexual prowess, importance and power. In his memoir, Shedding the Reptile, author David C. Garcia offers up a soul-crushing narrative of alcoholism, addiction and unadulterated immorality with the objectivity of a journalist and the emotional honesty of a frightened child.
Written with an unnerving fusion of humor and tragedy, Shedding the Reptile dares to present an awful human reality without glamour or condemnation and asks if one can truly escape the hell of chemical dependency once he has arrived. Kindle Edition , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Shedding the Reptile , please sign up.
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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 09, Jen from Quebec: This read like a novel, as opposed to a memoir. This guy, Alcoholic Dave, has serious writing skills. Also, I enjoyed the fact that this book did NOT end with rainbows, joy and blubberings about the greatness of God, as a lot of addiction memoirs tend to do As he himself says: It is not a wonderful end, but this is it. Jul 13, Merrill Frazier rated it really liked it. I almost quit reading this book several times because the author was a such a fucking asshole.
Frankly, I didn't care if he quit drinking or died. I'm glad I stuck with it.
I was pulling for him at the end. Oct 26, Goth Gone Grey rated it liked it Shelves: I picked this one up because I know people who suffer from addiction and wanted to get a glimpse into what they go through. The writing is decent - you feel disturbingly in the moment with him - but the editing could be improved. It's an unflinching honest account of alcohol, drug, exercise, and sex addiction on a number of levels, I picked this one up because I know people who suffer from addiction and wanted to get a glimpse into what they go through.
It's an unflinching honest account of alcohol, drug, exercise, and sex addiction on a number of levels, repeated ad nauseum. The author primarily seems to brag about his exploits - so many drinks, so many drugs, so many women - with a random line about knowing it wasn't right just to make it sound better. It's a mix between a confessional and, well, drunken bragging at the bar. I've heard it said that an addict is a piece of sh! Everything is about feeding the addictions, with little concern or even humanizing of people around him.
Shedding the Reptile: A Memoir
Women are referred to in increasingly deragatory fashion, friends are only there to help keep the buzz going, beating up on a homeless man gives him a new lease on life, etc. Meanwhile, he can drink the most, have the most sex, and he's in great shape due to an additional exercise addiction. Did he break the addiction, and shed the cold reptilian brain that just wants pleasure?
I hope so, for his sake and those who love him. I skimmed the last chapter and it seems there's some possibility, but I couldn't read until the end to find out for myself. Aug 24, Natalie Laufer rated it it was amazing. David Great piece of writing on a horrible phase of life. Really beautiful, witty prose interspersed with horrible scenarios point up the very dark struggle of alcoholism. The physical suffering alone is hard to bear, even at reading distance.
This is a wow memoir.
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I know there are no happy endings, in the big picture, as I know what is up with existential horror. But I do think there are profound moments, and maybe a peaceful internal dialogue, even as chaos mounts. But th David Great piece of writing on a horrible phase of life. But that doesn't mean we need to collide without elegance. This book is elegant. Peace to you, David. Dec 29, Rita Ann rated it it was amazing. Wow Drinking Wow Anyone has a bad drinking problem must read this book.
You will see how you can become a good to bad. This a very good book. I had to stop reading cuz I was crying or yelling at the book. Must read to know about what drinking can do to the body. I have Uncles that experience this drinking and detox. One die and one still alive but not drinking.