Augusten Burroughs
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.72 | 340450 Users | 12356 Reviews
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| Title | : | Running with Scissors |
| Author | : | Augusten Burroughs |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2003 by Picador USA (first published July 10th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Humor. Biography Memoir. LGBT |
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The true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment. Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.Itemize Books In Pursuance Of Running with Scissors
| Original Title: | Running with Scissors |
| ISBN: | 031242227X (ISBN13: 9780312422271) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 340450 Users | 12356 ReviewsJudge Based On Books Running with Scissors
After digesting for over a month now, I still feel this autobiography-memoir beyond bizarre and belief....Can all of it really be true?Can I believe the doctor depict herein holds a medical degree from one of the most prestigious universities in America, i.e.....Yale? Hmmmmm....pretty hard to believe, and disheartening too.Anyway, it's the 1970's and all hell breaks loose when 12 year old Augusten's disturbed poetry writing mother and alcoholic father divorce and mother dear ultimately sends himLoved your thoughts on categories. Had me LOL and also agreeing at the same time ;)
I know the family, I know the ego-crazed and self-indulgent overgrown baby who wrote this book, and I find it not only sloppily written but vicious and hate-filled. It's a mother-bashing, lesbian-bashing, lying heap of crap. You can see I am worked up about it. I wouldn't mind if it were called a novel (which it is). I only object to its being called a "memoir." Read instead Jackie Leyden's beautiful hymn to the mixed blessings of growing up with a mother who had bipolar disorder, DAUGHTER OF
I read this book in about four hours. & perhaps that's as good an encapsulation for the experience as I can give.I like the eccentric, non-plot-driven memoir that sounds too strange to be true... and because it exists, because it ACTUALLY happened (unlike you, James Frey!), it merits thoughts about American families in addition to the ironies of self-obsessed psychologies.Written in cute concise prose, even if some jokes do not actually make you laugh but sicken you to the point of feeling
This book is supposed to be funny?! I kept waiting for the amusement as I waded through increasingly appalling characters that were not likable, interesting, or remotely relatable. Crazy and abusive is not quirky and lovable. Well I suppose there is a way to write it that way, but this is written with a tinge of bitterness. What is so amusing about royally screwing up a child's life?Between books I'd try to get back into this story that was ok but not good enough to grab my attention. But it's a
I found this book profoundly disturbing and torturous to read. I understand that it is cleansing and theraputic for those that have been traumitized to write/talk aobut their problems to help with the healing process. There are very few things that my ironclad stomach can't suffer and my brain is developed enough to handle even the most shocking of situations. This book tested my patience from begining to end and in the end I was very dissapointed.First off, from reviews and the book cover I was
Where to begin with Running With Scissors? I had read it way back in the 10th grade and disliked it, but decided to go back and try to re-read it to see if I'd missed something. What's worse? The lawsuit against Burroughs from the "Finch" Family, especially "Natalie", who never wanted her private domestic and sexual abuse revealed to the public? Some friend Augusten Burroughs is! Or maybe it's simply how vulgar and totally random he is as a writer. No, it's really not necessary (and I suspect
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