Running with Scissors: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 1843541513 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Fluffy-Owl of Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on 5/31/2008
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Fluffy-Owl from Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on Saturday, May 31, 2008
From the blurb:

"This is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams Family. Augusten Burroughs's mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients and a sinister man living in the garden shed completed the tableau. In the perfect squalor of their dilapidated Victorian house, there were no rules and there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer and Valium was chomped down like sweets. And when things got a bit slow, there was always the ancietn electroshock therpay machine under the stairs..."

Journal Entry 2 by annalux from Durham, County Durham United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 22, 2008
I didn't know what to make of this at all. All the reviews on the back seemed to think that it was very funny - I think I found the content so shocking that the humour seemed a little misplaced. I felt that the tone of the book as a whole was just too... manic, and not a little grotesque. An interesting read nevertheless.

Journal Entry 3 by Fluffy-Owl from Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on Friday, October 31, 2008
Starting this now...

Journal Entry 4 by Fluffy-Owl from Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on Sunday, November 9, 2008
Odd. Very, very, odd. Very odd childhood this person had.

Passing on to annalux so she can do what she plans to do with it.

Journal Entry 5 by mazzlestar from Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Received this in the mail today - thanks :D

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