About this title: From the bestselling author of "Running with Scissors" comes his most provocative collection of true stories yet. Readers should be forewarned and read the label: hilarious, troubling, and shocking results might occur.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780312315962ISBN:0312315961
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex) Library Copy. Moderate wear on Cover Interior Pages. Usual library markings. (W2) Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 291 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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"It's so good. Another collection of stories from Burrough's life. It's not one of those things where he has just had a more interesting life than the rest of us (but let's face it-he has); mostly he just sees the humor in life and is able to tell us about it in a way that has you rolling on the floor. And believe me-I was.
He is just so honest. How can you not just drink it in? Being able to laugh at yourself and be vulnerable at the same time . . . it's a thing of beauty.
One of my favorite stories in the book talks about a vacation he took with his husband, Dennis. I have heard him describe how much he loves Dennis many times before and it always touches me to my core. It is the kind of love I want:
"I watch him pee sometimes and I actually sigh with joy because I won him, somehow. Happily, GLEEFULLY, would I live in dire poverty with him, if it meant we got to live to each be one hundred years old. The next morning, a tree could fall on top of our cardboard box and crush us both to death at the same instant. Bliss"
There is another story that I LOVED because it reminded me of my best friend, Tim. He talks about his hands and how they are just bloody, dry, cracked and hideous. You got to respect a person willing to share that mess.
I'm telling you-don't miss this book. Or any of his books for that matter."
"Apparent brutal honesty of retelling stories of his life had me feeling a wonderful range of emotions. Interest, pondering, laughter, empathetic sorrow and pain, anger and a peculiar sense of justice.
He writes very well for a self confessed high school drop-out. Each chapter is an event from a period in his life, which he weaves into something which is eminently re-tellable.
Perhaps it is just my own sense of connection with events which had me nodding along between chuckles and often finding myself inadvertently making a mental note of a life lesson. Definitely an easy read and one i went into with no expectations or prior knowledge and have ended up excitedly wishing to share parts and reading out loud passages to friends and writing more than a couple of words of review.. Cheers Augusten :)"
"After reading "Running with Scissors," I have to say that this book is somewhat of a disappointment. The first couple of stories decidedly neither entertaining nor funny. The story of his purchasing a defective french bulldog is just too much a luxury problem for me to have any empathy or patience for.
Mr. Burroughs is better off sticking to the wealth of humiliating and gut wrenching material of being an anxiety ridden teen or an utterly broken down alcoholic who is at the end of his drinking career or at the beginning of his recovery career.
My favorite story is about how he was best friends with someone for a year known as "Druggie Debbie", probaby since it's the most dramatic and funny of all of the vingettes in this book. This is the material he should stick to, not boring stories of nosebleeds on airplanes."
"Augusten Burroughs and I, in many ways, may have been seperated at birth (disregarding the age difference issue). We both think London is the perfect place and secretly wish were were British. (Why did we seperate anyway? Oh yeah...the freedom thing...) We are both more or less anti-social when it comes to...well, people...we are both totally creeped out by dolls and neither of us like to touch anything outside our homes without disinfecting them first. Most importantly, we worship our pets. (But I won't buy mine....) So, I think he's fabulous as a person, of course. :)
The essays in this book are funny, open, honest and in many cases, very, very sad. Burroughs has led an amazingly hard, sad life and I admire his ability to recognize that perhaps other people could learn from him and change their lives too...
The reason I didn't give this more stars (and only gave it a "liked it" rating) was because some of the essays, while poignant, were so overwhelmingly sad and I was looking for a book of funny to lift my spirits. He is funny and in places finds humor where I know I would not be able to were it me. I think he's a fantastic writer and I look forward to reading more of his works."
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