Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Smashed got a bit dull. While your own drunken exploits are always pretty entertaining, other people’s are less so. Koren started drinking young, for sure, and continued drinking so steadily it’s hard to imagine how she made it to adulthood in one piece (and with her virginity in tact until mid-college). It’s just not that interesting to read after a while. There she is, drunk again. Frankly, I think a lot of people have had more interesting adventures while drunk than she did.
Although she quits drinking in the end, she never does admit to alcoholism. She just drank too much. Which is different. Somehow. So the book doesn’t even serve as a good introspective look into how an alcoholic develops. It’s nothing more than the story of a safe and spoiled girl from a well off family who carries on binge drinking beyond her college years.