I have not read Blackout I rarely had blackouts no matter how much I drank. I heard a story recently at a meeting a member who lives south of San Francisco came out of blackout in a Seattle airport and was having a talk at the bar with Bill Russell HOF basketball player that would be a wake up call. My brother's ex wife was a blackout drinker and never had to make amends for the BS she created because she did not remember the horror stories, now that was convenient for her.