While I go to a Big Book meeting every week, I'm not a big reader of AA literature...at least the first 164 pages. My favorite meeting of the week is a Grapevine meeting that has contemporary readings about being sober. In my opinion, much of the Big Book is dated...even if the experiences in the stories are the same as the symptoms & problems I hear around the tables. I get much more out of meetings than I do out of the literature. A link to the Grapevine follows:

http://www.aagrapevine.org/stories