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Running With Scissors

Augesten Burroughs

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"I really enjoyed Running With Scissors, and one of the main reasons that I enjoyed this book is that I love the voice. I love the voice of the author, Augusten Burroughs, and I would seek out anything that he writes because the voice is so alive. He took ultimately a very tragic story about a lost, chaotic, crazy, insane childhood and made it hilarious! It is a fun, wild ride. It's just the anecdotes are absolutely unbelievable, and I think it helped significantly that he took a very humorous tone to this material because otherwise, first of all we wouldn't even believe it that it would actually be true - this is a memoir - so we wouldn't believe it; and would wouldn't be able to digest it unless it was humorously written, which it was. I did see the movie, and I enjoyed it. I felt it - I thought the movie was very good and very well done, although it took a little bit of a different take than the book. The movie focused on the relationship between the mother and the son, and I thought that was very interesting because it made it - you could see more tragedy in there. The book, however, doesn't necessarily focus on the mother as much. He lets it all out, all the relationships that are happening to him in his life as he progresses through this insane childhood. I would recommend that anybody read Running With Scissors. It's an enjoyable book. It's fun, it's a wild ride, and it's a good time, and it's very inspirational, too. I would give this five stars, this book five stars."