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Title: Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs ISBN: 0312283709 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96
Rating: 4
Summary: A Twisted Nightmare of a Life!
Comment: If you think you have had a messed up childhood, after reading this book, you'll think again. Augusten Burroughs, in his new memoir, bravely tells us about his twisted nightmare of an upbringing by his mother, her psychiatrist, and the doctor's weird family. This was a hard book to read, and I kept telling myself this is not a memoir, it has to be fiction. This story would leave anyone else grabbing their knees, cowering in a corner, and locked-up in a mental institution for the rest of their lives. Burroughs manages to tell the story with wit and humor, and honesty. We all have childhood memories we like to keep hidden, but I give Burroughs a lot of credit for exposing his abused childhood so candidly. It's amazing that his life turned out so well after such a stressful, crazy and abused upbringing.
Beautifully written, with real emotion, and yet horribly shocking, disturbing, and disgusting at times. It is a difficult book to read, but one you will find yourself racing through to the finish line. Things get so bad in the story, it forces you to laugh to get through another chapter. A captivating read you should definitely not miss.
Joe Hanssen
Rating: 5
Summary: It's like reading about a traffic accident...
Comment: You can't stop but watch and wonder. Augusten Burroughs delightfully grim memoir, "Running with Scissors", chronicles his early life with such candor and honesty, you both admire and pity the lad, all the while laughing and staring.
Augusten was certainly dealt some challenges in his early life. That he grew up to survive them is a testament to his strength of character, or just pure determination. It is easy to see how he survives though. He writes himself as a strong character in this memoir, the sane person in a loony bin, if you will. He is patient observer of all the madness around him. While he certainly fits into the mob with his own pecularities (I personally related to his fascination with Donny and Marie's sparkling clothing!), he also writes as if watching this from afar. Perhaps that distance allowed him to write such a funny, surreal book.
Burroughs writing style is easy and familiar. Burroughs writes upfront and honestly, in a matter of fact way, almost as if giving a news report on the insanity around him. It is a brisk, entertaining read that you will not want to put down. I honestly cannot wait to see who dares to make a movie out of this wonderful tale.
"Running with Scissors", one of the most entertaining books I've read this year!
Rating: 5
Summary: My Review of Running With Scissors
Comment: Running with Scissors is the true story of how a young gay man named Augusten Burroughs grew up in the house of his mother's psychiatrist and his family. His mother left him in the care of a Dr Finch after her divorce from Augusten's alcoholic father. This left her mentally unstable. Augusten Burroughs subsequently attempted suicide at the age of 13, because he didn't want to go to school any more. His suicide attempt was approved of by his mother and the psychiatrist who would become his legal guardian. His formal education ended in the 7th grade as a result of that attempt. Burroughs had a sexual often abusive relationship as a child with a man twice his age for most of his teens. Burroughs grew up in a house where people ate dog food as a snack. He lived in a household where the shape of human feces was saved and looked upon as a method of telling the future. Augusten's closest relationship is with his stepsister Natalie. The things they did together are very funny.
One of the funniest parts in the book would have to be the part where Augusten and Natalie sing for a group of unruly mental patients for fun. I also loved reading the funny chapter in which Augusten and his sister threw some hotel furniture in a swimming pool in a frustrated effort to find a pair of earrings. Running With Scissors has a combination of serious and funny elements. I enjoyed this book very much.
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Title: Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs ISBN: 031226772X Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 07 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold ISBN: 0316666343 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 0374199698 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Why I'm Like This: True Stories by Cynthia Kaplan ISBN: 0688178502 Publisher: William Morrow & Co Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young ISBN: 030681188X Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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