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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61115.Possible_Side_Effects?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Possible Side Effects" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170559303m/61115.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61115.Possible_Side_Effects?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Possible Side Effects</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3058.Augusten_Burroughs">Augusten Burroughs</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18985373?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I am about halfway through this collection of autobiographical essays, and I love it every bit as much as I loved "Magical Thinking." Burroughs presents himself as this detached, selfish, self-absorbed man, but the stories he shares reveal him to be a tenderhearted person who is acutely aware of his foibles. <br/>I love reading about his relationship with Dennis. I love that he marvels that someone as wonderful as Dennis could love him so much. Their unabashed adoration of their dogs hits home with me. <br/>Burroughs is unpretentious, honest, insightful and a deft manipulator of the English language. What more could a reader want? <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/915687?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>