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Title: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
ISBN: 0312938853
Author:
Augusten Burroughs
Publicate Date: 2006-08-29
Publish: 2006-08-29
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: GREAT BOOK...if you liked this, you gotta read GYPSY BOY
Gosh i loved this book...i actually heard about it through a review in a magazine, i was reading about Gypsy Boy by mikey walsh...they had compared his book to this one, saying it was the best nuts biog since "running with Scissors," so i just had to pick it up...
But 100% without a doubt, GYPSY BOY BY MIKEY WALSH....YOU GOTTA GRAB IT TOO
the absolute best book i have read in a long time, and i mean years...
incredible, hilarious, heartbreaking, beautiful and, number one sunday times best seller this week.
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2: A Moving Tale of a Childhood Survived
Augusten risked the wrath of family to write this book. But after living through his harrowing childhood years, this must've been a piece of cake. WHile sometimes hard to read, anything less than the truth tells the complete story. A thoughtul, funny read.
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3: Didn't do it for me.
They say "Don't judge a book by its cover." I've also learned not to judge a book by its title. It's probably my fault that I didn't do a bit more research into what this book was about before I purchased it, but the title caught my eye and I tend to be an impulsive buyer when it comes to books. Unfortunately, I also feel compelled to finish what I start and so struggled through this book to its completion. I'm normally a thriller, mystery, horror kind of guy, but enjoy a good comedy when I can find one. I would not classify this book as a comedy. Some others have obviously enjoyed this story, but I found it disturbing and nothing more.
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4: disappointing
Hilarious if you enjoy descriptions of whiners whose hobbies include polishing their coins, and find homosexual pedophilia a suitable topic for humorous description. I don't. Recommended to me by someone who also suggested The Corrections (which I enjoyed immensely), this was a long, slow trek through pretentious, disgusting crap. Sorry I paid money for it. Should have borrowed it from the library or simply read something worthwhile instead. To be avoided.
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5: Sad book. Could have had a better developed story line
Reading the book opens your eyes to Afghanistan, but the book's storyline shrouds the violence and anger which seems to be pervasive. It does not want to deal with them. There is a cowboy mentality to the problems which this book unearths.
Pretty obvious the guy has lived in the States.
Skip the book, stick with the movie!
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