| View Larger Image | Loaded: Women and Addiction | Paperbackby Jill Talbot (Author)
| List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $10.17 | | You Save: | $4.78 (32%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Seal Press | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 256 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 28, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 152,019nd |
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Product Description
Having an addiction can follow the path of a great relationship that goes sour: there’s the first blush of romance, the seduction (“you know you want to”), and the downward spiral into either obsession or breaking free.Jill Talbot is no stranger to addiction. Part autobiography, part exposé, Loaded: Women and Addiction weaves Talbot's own battles with addiction with various addiction stories of other women. The result is a captivating, honest look at the allure of addiction—be it to sex, drugs, alcohol, food, adventure, or infidelity—and ultimately its betrayal. Though addiction can be seductive, if you’re waking up with guilt or making choices that harm others, it’s probably a clue that things are out of control. Throughout Loaded, Talbot's razor-sharp honesty, heartbreaking self-awareness, and resolve to reveal the difficult truth of her relationship with past and present addictions is humbling and sometimes gut-wrenching. In sharing her struggles and her resolve to attain control over her addictions, Talbot speaks her truth while sending a message of hope to women everywhere. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 7 reviews)
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Misleading...and yawn inducing by Aerialgirl (Australia)  2 Stars
November 01, 2009
With the subtitle 'women and addiction', I thought this book would be covering the female experience of addiction as a whole. Instead it's a dull as dishwater memoir by a nobody who's in love with her own misery. And worse, it's boring! Talbot is no Courtney Love. I would suggest More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction as a far superior choice.
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What a load of egotistical hogwash. by Rebecca--30 years of crypto and still loving it! (Augusta, GA)  1 Stars
September 14, 2009
I cannot believe I wasted $14.95 and an entire afternoon/evening on 256 pages of egotistical musings.
The book starts off looking at the relationships between generations of the women in her family and what she will leave to the next generation. It then degenerates into random essays that emphasize her favorite 20th century writers and her love of having affairs with married men. The writer has no real style...just what she's borrowed from those that she obviously admires.
The subtitle 'Women and Addiction' is there as a marketing technique to get other women to pick it up. The other women in this book only appear as old, wronged women in family and intimate relationships--gray ghosts compared to the vibrant, carefree author. These women are just a backdrop to the author's self-centered musings.
There's no recovery here folks--just an aging, amoral woman with a Ph.D. that she uses as a shield while she wistfully reviews her drunken days of debauchery.
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Self-Indulgent, Unrepentant, and Contradictory by Nancy Safran (Atlanta, Georgia) 1 Stars
May 19, 2009
While the author definitely has a way with words - her prose is captivating - I became increasingly bored with her repetitive stories, appalled by her self-importance, disappointed that she never amends her problems with alcohol, and stymied by contradictions within her chapters. Not the book I thought I was getting...
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Undigested by M. Guinn 2 Stars
August 13, 2008
I'm shocked to read the other reviews of this book. I found it repetitive and lacking in insight. Perhaps because the author never really got or stayed sober, she lacks the necessary perspective on addiction to write about it with any clarity or originality. Her blurred, romanticized, and narcissistic take on her life felt like she was writing with a glass of wine in hand. Editors and friends need to stop encouraging writers to churn out memoirs before they have digested their own experience.
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My Newest Literary Treasure by Alicia Urie (Boulder, CO)  5 Stars
June 10, 2008
This book is `loaded!' Though I'm not an addict, the writing craft and strength alone had me flipping madly through this book. . . Too quickly to really give justice to it's depth. Talbot shows a space that people tend to be uncomfortable with by candidly and delicately taking the reader directly into the heart of addiction. The intelligent courage within the pages of this book has me on my own journey of self-reflection targeting some of my own vulnerabilities, leaving me running lines like "I wonder, then, do we only see our own location within the geography of distance?" through my mind again and again. The book has replaced 'The Year of Magical Thinking' to become my newest literary treasure.
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