The Big Book Tells It like It Is

IN THE JANUARY 1970 Grapevine, D. P. of Ogden, Utah, posed the question of how members handled meetings before the Big Book. Co-founder Bill W. wrote much on that subject, especially in AA Comes of Age. However, D. P.'s question brought another question to my mind: How do we handle meetings after the Big Book? Drunkalogs still seem to be the main topic at many meetings. Speakers often start out, "The Big Book says I should tell you what I used to be like, what happened, and what I'm trying to be like now." Then follows forty-five to fifty minutes of a drunkalog, usually ended by a few minutes of "Now I'm in AA, and everything is wonderful. I don't know how it. works, but it works."