The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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I knew there would be lots of nice people at the wedding but, I’m ashamed to say, I wasn’t much looking forward to it because, for me, there wouldn’t be any drink involved. To me, and it’s just my personal opinion, he gave a list of excuses as to why he could have a drink, rather then addressing the issues as to why he shouldn’t have one.

But this book is a great addition to the still very small collection of books aimed at the moderate drinker. Again, I would stress it’s a personal opinion but if you are looking for inspiration to stop drinking I don’t think it’s this book. I manage to run a successful business and a family of four, so I can’t be doing that much damage to myself. If I lined up all the drinks I’d drunk in a forty-year drinking career, stretching back to my mid-teens, that line would be around three miles long. This is a positive for book for all of us who drink too much, know it and want to to do something about it.This bleak statement is especially true for many pop and rock stars, who find themselves catapulted from fame into obscurity virtually overnight, given the unforgiving vagaries of the music industry.

This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him. His book takes a Jungian psychology approach to addictions and drinking, with five universal archetypes as the thread through his take on the topic.It may be easier to give up alcohol totally than commit yourself to a future life of drinking moderately. Your thirst is your body’s way of telling you that, so take on water even if you don’t feel you need it yet. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

In five or ten years, the way I was going, it was clear to me that I’d have had to stop drinking completely or face some pretty dire consequences with my innards.More shocking than that, though, was the figure I got to when I considered how many of those drinks I could have done without. When I’ve not been drinking at some points I’ve had friends say ‘Oh, let me know when you’re drinking again, and then we can go out’ – as if somehow not drinking alcohol precludes having a night out? I didn’t agree with everything (for example I think Adrian puts too much emphasis on units, though if they work for him then calculate away!