A review by jojoreads89
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

slow-paced

1.0

Huge waste of time. There isn't one good thing I can say other than there were some darker parts that were intriguing and would make you think "ok, now it's gotta start getting more interesting", but then it wouldn't. 
If you like books with an antagonist that verbally harrases his kid throughout and no one learns anything except "hey my dads a dick and I'm glad I'm not like him", this is it for you.
The sypnosis makes you think there is this huge mystery of maybe the dad is a murder and maybe this kid ends up confronting him and some real shit goes down?; but in the end you still don't know if it was a dream or reality. Literally the entire book is a father being a piece of shit to his family, parents get divorced,  he grows up, Dads still an asshole, then dad dies and kid later realizes hes not like his dad.

It had an Interesting plot that fell so hard it couldn't get back up,  characters had potential but never went anywhere and a narration that was annoying (he kept pausing between words "then my mother....did this ..with..a....needle.((that was just an example, not in the book))
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