Box Of Mustaches : The darkly funny, true story of how twin brothers survived their motherÂ’s madness

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Summary: The American "Angela's Ashes"
Review: A few adjectives to describe this book: powerful, hilarious, sad, dramatic, surprising...and finally, INSPIRING!
Just read the first chapter and you will be hooked.

Rating:
Summary: The American "Angela's Ashes"
Review: A few adjectives to describe this book: powerful, hilarious, sad, dramatic, surprising...and finally, INSPIRING!
Just read the first chapter and you will be hooked.

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Summary: A total find!
Review: By far one of the best books I have ever read by a first time author. Evans tells his real life story with such fine details and hilarious, laugh out loud moments, it will resound in you for weeks.

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Summary: Box is chockful of nuts
Review: I hate whiny "woe is me" books written by people who want emotional handouts. Give me an emotionally powerful yet funny journey and that's what you get with "Box of Mustaches". Not only can read about his mom Nutty Nora but other characters like Eldy and the Gas-O-Mat and "Crisco Marie". Mr. Evans writes books like Ray Davies writes songs. Dickens would have given his last beer to write like this.

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Summary: blows away "running with scissors"!
Review: mr. evans' transforms his tumultuous childhood into explosive, heart-wrenching reading. it's amazing he lived through it all -- AND later won an emmy as an adult. funny, tragic, great book! it'll make you stop complaining about your family, that's for sure.

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Summary: blows away "running with scissors"!
Review: mr. evans' transforms his tumultuous childhood into explosive, heart-wrenching reading. it's amazing he lived through it all -- AND later won an emmy as an adult. funny, tragic, great book! it'll make you stop complaining about your family, that's for sure.

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Summary: A hilarious look at a sad childhood
Review: There is no question that the childhood of Stan Evans and his twin brother was by today's standards completely dysfunctional and often abusive. Life with a certifiable mother can never be easy, but the author manages to find humor in even the most heartbreaking situations. Told with mattter of fact candor and plenty of laughs this is one memoir on the dysfunctional childhood that looks for no pity.

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Summary: sharp and witty, not cloying and pretentious
Review: There seems to be a fashion for memoirs from authors who had brutal and bizarre upbringings or early life experiences. The problem with many of these, however, is that they are cloying, pretentious, or both. One apt example is "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," which would more accurately be titled "A Mawkish Work of Staggering Pretentiousness." Evans avoids this trap by writing simply and straightforwardly, but with elegance, poignance, and wit. He doesn't wear his travails like a badge of honor or feel the need to inform readers that he is consciously shunning post-modern, self-referential prose and condescending to write a mere traditional memoir. He skips the self-aggrandizing nonsense and just writes a damn funny, touching book.

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Summary: sharp and witty, not cloying and pretentious
Review: This is a brutally honest, sometimes sad, often absurdly comical account of growing up (or attempting to) amidst constant turmoil and outright insanity. Evans brings you into the harrowing world of his childhood and adolescence. And despite the emotional rawness of the book, it is a surprisingly easy read. His ability to find any morsel of humor even in the most bizarre and dire circumstances has clearly served him well, both in surviving his tumultuous youth and in his work as a comedy writer.

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Summary: A gripping, funny account of surviving a difficult childhood
Review: This is a brutally honest, sometimes sad, often absurdly comical account of growing up (or attempting to) amidst constant turmoil and outright insanity. Evans brings you into the harrowing world of his childhood and adolescence. And despite the emotional rawness of the book, it is a surprisingly easy read. His ability to find any morsel of humor even in the most bizarre and dire circumstances has clearly served him well, both in surviving his tumultuous youth and in his work as a comedy writer.