Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Hope!
Dick B. · 2002
68/100
👎 Skip It
The story of Gerry D. — fifty years sober, founder of Alina Lodge, personally connected to AA's founding generation — is genuinely compelling, and endorsements from Betty Ford and Dr. Abraham Twerski signal the subject's importance in recovery history. But this is a niche specialty press publication with no mainstream critical coverage, and readers outside the AA history community may struggle to find it accessible. For those circles it's a meaningful addition; for a general audience it's a hard sell.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance72
craft60
originality70
accuracy68
hype55
age-fit78
human-eye62
Penny’s verdict68
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