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Summary: Dark humor at its finest
Review: Just when you think these freaks can't get any more dysfunctional, they do. My girlfriend, Christy, recommended "Running With Scissors" to me and about midway through the book I started to email her and tell her that she needed psychiatric care for reading, let alone recommending, this book. Unfortunately, it's also very absorbing and I couldn't put it down long enough to tell Christy what I thought of her choice of reading material.
It's like some heart-stopping picture that you see posted on the internet somewhere - an extreme genital piercing or horrifying accident. You look; gasp and close your browser; reopen your browser and take another look, prepared for it this time; close your browser again in a fit of squeamishness; then look again, much longer this time; and just keep doing that until you're desensitized enough to explore the picture in all it's vivid goriness.
So I'll recommend this book, too, but not for the faint at heart. And now I'll have to get "Dry" so I can find out the rest of the story.
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Summary: Augusten, are you OK?
Review: Loved the book, and a big thank you for it. But it makes me worry for you. You are bright, so very funny, and seem to taken all possible positives from your bizarre experiences. I hope you're OK. I loved Dry, too, and again: I thank you for it.
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Summary: profoundly disturbing...but in a good way
Review: Once I opened this book I could not put it down. I was instantly intrigued by the quirkiness of this young boy thrown into a life that is so far from "normal" it almost makes you feel uncomfortable. Augusten Burroughs has an amazing way of describing madness, love, sex, and beauty as they intertwine within one another. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Entertaining Read
Review: Reading this book I almost forgot that this was a memoir. It was so out there and unbelievable that I had a hard time trying to put this into perspective as this was someone's life. Incredible story and incredibly funny.
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Summary: Outrageous, funny, sad, and true
Review: RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is a true story, which in of itself, is very hard to believe! But true it is. Augusten Burroughs weaves a story of his life that has the reader in constant amazement, bewilderment, disbelief, compassion as well as in wonderment, in that he actually survived living the bizarre life that he had. Burrough's life makes your "average dysfunctional American family" look sane.I loved every minute of this book and wanted to read more when I was finished. Thank goodness I also picked up his next book, DRY, at the library as well! The author looks at his bizarre, bewildering life though humor, clarity, and honesty, and paints a picture for the reader that brings all the insanity to life - in full color. One does not know whether to laugh or cry or do both. The readers also have to keep reminding themselves that this is all true! Burroughs is a very talented author and I am enjoying DRY as much as I did with SCISSORS. This book will paint a very unique picture for the field of psychiatry!!!!! Really makes you wonder or makes you really beware!! This book shows a different, (yet real), side of life that makes one appreciate what one has in one's life, as well as thanking the heavens that one did not have to endure what Burroughs did. This book is excellent and I am recommending it to everyone I know. I do so look forward to all of Burroughs books. Thanks Augusten Burroughs for sharing your life with us - your look back sheds the humorous and not so humorous light on all of it. I loved this book!!! Highly recommend it.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This book is heartbreaking, hilarious, and riveting. I could not put it down. This book is a testimony that true life is stranger than fiction. It is amazing to me that someone who had this kind of life is capable of such beautiful writing. If you like this book I would also highly recommend Angela's Ashes.
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Summary: Shocked, disgusted, and laughing all at the same time.
Review: This book made me feel dirty.
This book made me laugh.
Augusten Burroughs makes Chuck Palahniuk look like
Mary Lou Retton.
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Summary: Covers All the Bases
Review: This is a fantastic book because it is so outrageous but at the same time so real. It takes really ugly subjects like teen sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and prescription drug abuse and offsets them with an understated humor that makes them not only palatable but entertaining. However never does the author disrespect himself or the trauma of abuse. It happened. It was bad. He suffered. But he survived. There are many books that are outrageous. There are many books that talk about abuse. There are many books that are entertaining. There are many books that are educational. Very few books though accomplish all those things at once. This is a book that sits in the rare company of A Child Called It, Nightmares Echo, White Oleander, and My Fractured Life.
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Summary: Wonderful Memoir
Review: This is one of the best Memoir/Autobiographies I have read. The interior is filled with emotional ups and downs. There is tears and laughter. The look inside the self as to why someone does the things they do. to be brought up in an-for lack of a better word-Eccentric life is at times abusive and yet this author finds humor in his own unhappiness. I would rank this book up there with the likes of 'Nightmares Echo','Lucky',and "Dry'-all great memoirs that each tell a story.
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Summary: Wild
Review: This is that wild kind of life that you almost forget isn't fiction. It's in that same genre as Dry and My Fractured Life. You'll have a lot of fun.
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