Recovery Freedom From Our Addictions

Russell Brand — 2017

The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know that you have it. What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on food? Bad relationships? A job that doesn't fulfill you? Numb, constant perusal of your phone, looking for what? My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you, it's that I am worse. I am an addict, addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love and fame. The program in Recovery has given Russell Brand freedom from all addictions and it will do the same for you. This system offers nothing less than liberation from self-centredness, a new perspective, freedom from the illusion of suffering for anyone who is willing to take the necessary steps.

Reviews

Terry Benzie@terrybenzie

Jul 26, 2024

DNF thus far. I am violating my general rule for not reviewing books that I haven't finished but I haven't been able to get through this. It started off strong enough that I actually suggested it to a friend who was struggling with addiction issues but the author (I'm listening to the audio version) keeps going on...and on...and on and I'm unsure that he's made a single, coherent point in the last three chapters. It's essentially the standard 12 step program, which he didn't find to work so he updated with profanity and personal anecdotes of things that he suddenly realized through the 12 step program, which he didn't find to work. I've never read nor listened to Brand before so perhaps he's an acquired taste and wraps things up nicely in the last few lines but I am doubtful. I finally shut it down to return it to Audible but thought that I would stop by here to see if anybody had a similar reaction and am surprised that few have. I will give it another go, perhaps working through from the beginning again if I do, and will update this if I change my mind. POST-SCRIPT - Apparently I can't return this book to Audible because I placed this order more than a year ago. I've tried to listen to it....probably ten times during that period - forgot that I wrote this review. It's the only book that I've given an effort to reading/listening and simply not been able to finish. I find myself disliking the author and life in general the more that I hear him drone on about how many drugs he is able to do but....I don't know what comes next. I assume that enough profanity and bad jokes reverses his hatred for his mother and gets him clean. However, I fear that I will hate life if I finish it. As I mentioned, I did suggest it to a friend who has had far more substance abuse problems than I fortunately have had to deal with. She thought it was a joke. Perhaps it would read better in book than in audiobook form and I would pick it up and flip through it if I were to find it in a bookstore but I don't believe that I would ever be able to finish listening.