{"id":189,"date":"2009-08-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/08\/hurt-by-sobriety.html"},"modified":"2009-08-03T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T06:00:00","slug":"hurt-by-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/08\/hurt-by-sobriety.html","title":{"rendered":"Hurt by Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to my post asking if you can trust a guy who doesn’t drink<\/a>, a reader objects, “Nobody ever got hurt by staying sober.” Providentially, Andrew Sullivan shows<\/a> this is not exactly true. The quality of Stephen King’s novels, and therefore his readers’ enjoyment of them, was hurt by his achieving sobriety. So yes, as a Stephen King fan, I’ve been hurt by his staying sober. Did you read Duma Key<\/a><\/i>?<\/p>\n

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Responding to my post asking if you can trust a guy who doesn’t drink, a reader objects, “Nobody ever got hurt by staying sober.” Providentially, Andrew Sullivan shows this is not exactly true. The quality of Stephen King’s novels, and therefore his readers’ enjoyment of them, was hurt by his achieving sobriety. 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