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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
It was definitely a "downer," which I am typically adverse to but yet I flew through the pages. It was well written and while I wouldn't read it again ... I thought it was ok.
dark
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Must read for those in recovery
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Really beautiful, tense, tragic...a top memoir. Burroughs sweeps you along in his recovery and relationships. You have no choice but yo buy in.
This was one of the most touching "love stories" I've read in a long time. I enjoyed all of Burrough's books but this one remains my favorite.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
sad
fast-paced
Loved his writing ever since "Running with Scissors."
This one's got his trademark humor but it's also bitter sweet and at times completely frightening. Really glad to get to the end and see the street light flickering.
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Read it!
This one's got his trademark humor but it's also bitter sweet and at times completely frightening. Really glad to get to the end and see the street light flickering.
:)
Read it!
An unexpectedly touching, and almost alarmingly well-written, memoir of Burroughs's journey through alcohol rehab, kicked off by an intervention in the workplace, and the rocky months that followed. Burroughs writes with lacerating wit -- the blade turned, in this case, mostly at himself -- and his prose is ridiculously lively and affecting, even when he's describing the most harrowing stages of addiction. I have no idea whether this book has any of the controversies over accuracy that faced its predecessor, "Running With Scissors" (which I haven't read), and I don't much care; I enjoyed reading it too much.
dark
funny
Driving and crying is not the best combination, but exactly what I was doing listening to the last disc, where death sends him to rock bottom and then lifts him back up. Is it embellished? Well, sure. Who can remember conversations verbatim and who wouldn't spark them with literary wit when given the chance? I'm developing an even greater respect for Augusten Burroughs and the way he can spin something profound out of absurdity.