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kevin_shepherd 's review for:
Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
Were it fiction, I would have thought it outlandish and far-fetched. As a truthful memoir, it's mind-blowing. This is a recounting of piss-poor parenting of astronomic proportion. Who does this to a child?! And yet Augusten perseveres, his sense of humor (and fashion) intact, even when everyone around him seems destined for a mental or penal institution.
There were times when I had to put this book down and step away, but credit Burroughs' skill as a writer, interweaving levity into an often dark and tragic biography, I always came back.
There were times when I had to put this book down and step away, but credit Burroughs' skill as a writer, interweaving levity into an often dark and tragic biography, I always came back.