chrisinaustin

Maybe not. The Big Book is not an inspirational text per se; it's an instruction manual. You get something out of it (namely, a spiritual rekindling/awakening) but doing the action steps it describes (in addition to simply reading it.)

We indeed have learned a lot about addiction over the decades since the BB was written, but what we know of spirituality is timeless. The information in the BB provides as sound a way to tap into that spiritual well today as it did 80 years ago.

I own and have read the Tao of Sobriety. The exercises it provides are useful, but it doesn't present a complete program that any alcoholic can follow from point A to B to C and come out on the other side recovered.