Magical Thinking : True Stories

by Augusten Burroughs | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0312315945 Global Overview for this book
Registered by squirrel818 of Tafton, Pennsylvania USA on 12/1/2004
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2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by squirrel818 from Tafton, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, December 1, 2004
I ended up with 2 copies of this book so this one is going to choclaholic
because she is a very kind and thoughtful bookcrosser. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 2 by squirrel818 at fellow bookcrosser in San Antonio, Texas USA on Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Released on Wednesday, December 08, 2004 at about 11:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at fellow bookcrosser in San Antonio, Texas USA.

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Journal Entry 3 by rem_ABK-578523 on Thursday, December 16, 2004
Arrived in the mail today. Thank you! What a great looking book...can't wait to read it!

Journal Entry 4 by rem_ABK-578523 on Monday, February 21, 2005
2005/12

I had previously enjoyed this author’s previous books of novelized memoirs: Running with Scissors and Dry, so when I saw that he had written another book, I was immediately interested in reading it. Thanks to Squirrel818 for knowing this and sending it out to me!

This book was full of totally un-ashamed self-absorption, but it turned out to be less charming than you might expect it to be. Instead of a stylized flowing memoir, this was a book of shorts, (very reminiscent of the style of David Sedaris). Some of them were kind of amusing, but I found the bulk of them to be actually pretty tiresome... like I've seen this all before somewhere, only better. These episodes must’ve been what was originally edited out of the first two books, then compiled together in this volume to make a quick buck, riding on the coat-tails of the success of the first two. The only reason I read as much of this as I did was because I was stuck in a hospital waiting room for six hours with nothing else to do but read this. Or perhaps it was the circumstances under which I was reading this, sitting there in the ER worrying about my kid, that made me not appreicate Augusten's Amish road trip or the possum invading his trash....

Still, in looking for the positive, the best thing about this was that it answered the question I had from the first two books...how did Augusten, the drugged out alcohololic, actually remember any of what happened to him during his life and write it down in such a cohesive style in Running and Dry? Here he explains that he’s apparently been in the habit of journaling all about himself for many hours every day, for a long time. So he didn’t just sit down one day and write down his memoirs as I supposed, he referenced his diaries! So, okay, that makes sense to me.

Otherwise, this is just the musings of a balding gay guy in New York, mostly looking for a cheap date, whether it’s with a Catholic Priest, or an otherwise unflawed hunka-munka with a “micropenis”. This book, in typically Augusten style, is full of frank sexual talk, whether about gay encounters or gender re-assignment surgeries. So I’ll have to find a place to release this where the kiddies won’t be getting a hold of it.

Til I find an appropriate release spot, this is AVAILABLE.

Released 19 yrs ago (2/23/2005 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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I remembered that one of my neighbor ladies really likes David Sedaris, so since I thought she'd like this book, too, I handed it off to her when I saw her on our walk to pick up the kids from school. I gave Bookcrossing a good plug while I was at it, too!

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