The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (Paperback)

from PJCWLibrary

This book and theTwelve and Twelve, plus the fellowship changed my life.

from adpaton

The very title - The Big Book - sounds so cheesy, so all-American [especially since at the time it was written the book really wasn't all that big and by today's standards its positively minute. It's only one volume, for Heaven's sake] that I'd sooner put faith in one of those Eat all your favour...

from andyray

This is as holy a gospel as the Buddhist teachings, the Old and New Testaments, the Quoran, or the Upandishads. If it weren't for this 12 step program (which is almost exactly like first century Christianity and first century Mahayana Buddhism) I'd be dead or in prison now instead of enjoying the...

from ceilmary

The basic text for alcoholics who are using A.A. as the basis of their recovery. It was written in simple prose (for the time; now some of the grammar and concepts are dated and need to be explained to younger members). It explains the disease concept of alcoholism, and outlines a basic spiritual...

from johnkuypers

If you never quite knew what the bottom of the barrel looked like, this book will take you to hell and back. Thank God for that.