This book happened to be around and I saw that it was the author of Running With Scissors (a book I was interested in, admittedly after I saw trailers for the film years ago, which I also never saw), so I read it. I was really interested at first, but I found the book to be a bit... lacking. In what I am not entirely sure, but by the time I realized that I did not like it I was halfway through the book and found myself somewhat committed. Also it was easy to read and interesting, even if I was disturbed by some of the things the author did (both with the text and within the text). This book, though I dislike it, did not leave me feeling like I had wasted my time as other books I have not enjoyed have. I also wonder if I would have been less critical of this book if I had not been begun reading The Catcher in the Rye at the same time, though no because the books have that much in common, but I suppose something of Burroughs voice at times was reminiscent of Holden's at times, at least to me at the time.