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01-15-2008, 11:21 AM | #1 |
BANNED FOR NOT MAILING PRODUCTS PURCHASED | Running With Scissors? Has anyone read this book yet? It's a Memoir by Augusten Burroughs. It's the most twisted book I have ever read. Hope to hear someone eleses feedback! |
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01-15-2008, 11:42 AM | #2 |
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| Never read the book, but I do have experience as a child running with scissors and have a scar in my neck to prove it. (had to get stitches)
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01-15-2008, 11:53 AM | #3 |
BANNED FOR NOT MAILING PRODUCTS PURCHASED | I was doing some more research on this book and come to find out, they made it into a movie. So i will have to check that out. I'm telling you, I have never read a book like this before lol |
01-15-2008, 11:54 AM | #4 | |
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What is it about? Someone living dangerously or something??
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01-15-2008, 12:03 PM | #5 |
No Longer a Member | Is this the one who has Aspergers syndrome, or he has a brother with Aspergers? If that's the one I'm thinking of, I've almost purchased it in the past. My son has Aspergers, and life is never without its ups and downs... |
01-15-2008, 12:20 PM | #6 |
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| Just looked it up on Amazon. Doesn't sound like something I would read.
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01-15-2008, 12:22 PM | #7 | |
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Editorial Reviews Amazon.com There is a passage early in Augusten Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir, Running with Scissors, that speaks volumes about the author. While going to the garbage dump with his father, young Augusten spots a chipped, glass-top coffee table that he longs to bring home. "I knew I could hide the chip by fanning a display of magazines on the surface, like in a doctor's office," he writes, "And it certainly wouldn't be dirty after I polished it with Windex for three hours." There were certainly numerous chips in the childhood Burroughs describes: an alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family, gobbling prescription meds and fooling around with both an old electroshock machine and a pedophile who lives in a shed out back. But just as he dreamed of doing with that old table, Burroughs employs a vigorous program of decoration and fervent polishing to a life that many would have simply thrown in a landfill. Despite her abandonment, he never gives up on his increasingly unbalanced mother. And rather than despair about his lot, he glamorizes it: planning a "beauty empire" and performing an a capella version of "You Light Up My Life" at a local mental ward. Burroughs's perspective achieves a crucial balance for a memoir: emotional but not self-involved, observant but not clinical, funny but not deliberately comic. And it's ultimately a feel-good story: as he steers through a challenging childhood, there's always a sense that Burroughs's survivor mentality will guide him through and that the coffee table will be salvaged after all. --John Moe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly "Bookman gave me attention. We would go for long walks and talk about all sorts of things. Like how awful the nuns were in his Catholic school when he was a kid and how you have to roll your lips over your teeth when you give a blowjob," writes Burroughs (Sellevision) about his affair, at age 13, with the 33-year-old son of his mother's psychiatrist. That his mother sent him to live with her shrink (who felt that the affair was good therapy for Burroughs) shows that this is not just another 1980s coming-of-age story. The son of a poet with a "wild mental imbalance" and a professor with a "pitch-black dark side," Burroughs is sent to live with Dr. Finch when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. While life in the Finch household is often overwhelming (the doctor talks about masturbating to photos of Golda Meir while his wife rages about his adulterous behavior), Burroughs learns "your life [is] your own and no adult should be allowed to shape it for you." There are wonderful moments of paradoxical humor Burroughs, who accepts his homosexuality as a teen, rejects the squeaky-clean pop icon Anita Bryant because she was "tacky and classless" as well as some horrifying moments, as when one of Finch's daughters has a semi-breakdown and thinks that her cat has come back from the dead. Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit the occasional clich‚ ("Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal") stands out anomalously this memoir of a nightmarish youth is both compulsively entertaining and tremendously provocative. | |
01-15-2008, 12:22 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | I saw the movie, really weird, didn't like it at all. Maybe the book is better |
01-15-2008, 12:23 PM | #9 |
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| i have heard people like the book. my husband is going to get it this weekend. i cannot tell if you enjoyed it or not? some people like twisted stories.
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01-15-2008, 12:30 PM | #10 | |
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I will tell you, it's pretty graphic and he says he is gay at the age of 13 and goes into detail on some stuff! | |
01-15-2008, 12:38 PM | #11 |
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| I read that book...very weird and I think it's a true story!!! It just goes to show you how twisted people can realy be! I also read a child called it...Really heart breaking story. Child abuse happens every day and to people we all rub elbows with and we may not know!
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01-15-2008, 12:40 PM | #12 |
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| Yes, it's true--movie was ehh. I do know that after the book came out, the Dr's family of grown children came out and said a lot of what he remembers never happened. |
01-15-2008, 12:42 PM | #13 |
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| Yes, I read it a while back. I found it very fascinating. Even though most people like to avoid hearing/reading about this kind of story, it really makes you more aware of the horrible things some kids go through. I haven't seen the movie but I can't imagine that they could possibly put into a movie all the sorrow that you can feel from this guy while reading the book. I also read "A Child Called It" and the two (I believe) follow-ups. Very interesting also.
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01-15-2008, 12:57 PM | #14 |
BANNED FOR NOT MAILING PRODUCTS PURCHASED | as much as he said he wrote in his journal, how could it not be true? They probably just don't want to admit that there family is twisted LOL |
01-15-2008, 01:04 PM | #15 |
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