Get Up – A Twelve Step Guide To Recovery

Reviews

“Step 13: Read Get Up, do what Bucky says, and find your inner A-Team character. And if you’re a “normie”, buy this book for your friend who thinks they are too cool to get sober.” —Jen Kirkman, stand-up comedian, actor, and writer

“…a smart, snide, blasphemous self-help book written in a countercultural voice.” —Rachel Swan, East Bay Express

“This book is rad.” —Michelle Tea, author of Rent Girl and Valencia

“…refreshingly un-preachy…Get Up will strike a nerve in the recovery movement, which has heretofore had to convince certain people that it wasn’t as lame as it seemed” —Katy St. Clair, SF Weekly

“Get Up is not your mother’s coffee table recovery book. Bucky peels away the layers of fluff and sticks it right in your face. His use of comedy and colorful language will conjure up some laugh-out-loud moments…This release is perfect for the patient or counselor looking for a light-hearted, entertaining read. It combines recovery first-hand accounts, useful suggestions and scenarios and offers the reader an uplifting feeling without becoming over-powered by religious weights or flowery prose that often read like a real snooze on a page.” —Jenna Bensoussan, Counselor Magazine

“If you’re lost in a self made blizzard, or drowning in the drink, this book is a line you’ll want to have. Told with Bucky’s cracking wit, and clarity, it removes the fear from the first bite at the dozen. Walk on. Twelve steps. With hope. It’s in this book.” ―Alan Black, Scottish playwright and author

“I have been sober for more than 21 years, and this is the first time I have seen anyone take on the challenges of staying with a 12-Step program with such frankness. This is one of the best recovery books I have read, a whole new approach written with intelligence and honesty, and with a Bucky’s approach to the Higher Power concept will serve to help the millions of people out there who struggle with it every day.” ――Tom Callan, president of Board of Directors of Changing Echos, a drug and alcohol treatment center

“[Sinister’s] iconoclastic approach to addiction recovery will make a valuable addition to the growing works in this field. Highly recommended for university libraries supporting the helping professions and larger public libraries” —Library Journal Starred Review

“Our generation, Generation X, is a generation that doesn’t like to be marketed to. We don’t like to join groups and we’re very suspicious of trends. In a lot of ways Get Up is a 12-step book for people that remember Kurt Cobain on the cover of Rolling Stone wearing a t-shirt that says, ‘Corporate Magazines Still Suck.’ People who think Dolittle is the best album ever made…The book’s very funny.” —Stephen Elliott, Huffington Post

“Every single person should own Bucky Sinister’s 12 step book.  Addict or not.  It is an incredibly funny and interesting guide on how to successfully unpack one’s mind when it’s overpacked.  Simply put, this book should replace every magazine in every plastic surgeon’s office and every bible in every motel.” —Amber Tamblyn, Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and poet

“Move over Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew and every other faux-folksy TV platitude-puss.  Mr. Sinister has the kind of wisdom – and writing skills – that only come from experience.” —G. Martinez Cabrera, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bucky Sinister is a poet, self-help author, and comedian. He has published four books of poetry and two self-help books, including Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos. His journalism, film reviews, and short stories have appeared on The Rumpus, The Bold Italic, and a number of other online and print publications.