Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Posted: 27 Oct 2006 03:17 am
My little sister requested this book from our library because the movie "looked funny." Before she had the chance to read it I took it to work with me (and wow am I glad, it is very graphic) to read. It took me less than a day to finish and even though it isn't a horribly long memoir, that's saying something as the Handmaid's Tale took me almost a month to read.
I was amazed at how realistically AB recreated his dysfunctional childhood. Also, I'm not a big fan of biographies and the like but I was instantly hooked. And despite the weirdness of it all I really wanted to be a part of the craziness.
If you have read this book what are your thoughts and if you haven't, go to the library and check it out... and then read it.
Edit: I felt I should add this little warning - The book contains a lot of foul language as well as some pretty graphic M/M sex scenes.
I was amazed at how realistically AB recreated his dysfunctional childhood. Also, I'm not a big fan of biographies and the like but I was instantly hooked. And despite the weirdness of it all I really wanted to be a part of the craziness.
If you have read this book what are your thoughts and if you haven't, go to the library and check it out... and then read it.
Edit: I felt I should add this little warning - The book contains a lot of foul language as well as some pretty graphic M/M sex scenes.