Clancy I. – “i’ve been a professional writer my entire adult life and when i first read this book, i thought it was a mediocre book. you wouldn’t want to spend a lot of time reading it if you wanted to stay awake. some years later, through a series of bad breaks and misunderstandings i was on skid row. i read that dumb book again and went to a lot of meetings and got a sponsor and somewhere in those first few years, i came to the conclusion that this was a remarkable book.” -10/10/88