Katie's review
Possible Side Effects
by Augusten Burroughs
Katie's review
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
Katie's review
rating:
This is not the side-slitting, gasping-for-air, hysterical laugh-crying at the hilarious wrongness of RUNNING WITH SCISSORS. But it's a great palate-cleanser after RUNNING: I grew to love the little dude, and I'm just glad Augusten has lived to tell the tale(s).
This is a collection of brief pieces, mostly featuring the adult Augusten in moments of self-awareness and dot-connecting. His love for his partner and his disgusting bulldogs is touching, but I liked this collection best at its most observational-- his building anxiety and dread over getting locked out of his apartment, and his alcoholic depresso-den being exposed to the world when the locksmith finally opens the door; his feverish addiction to nicotine gum; his horror of staying at a b&b packed with creepy dolls; his hilarious justification of his theft of a Harvard t-shirt. This is more funny "heh" than funny "oh sweet jesus help me," but I liked it, because I like him.
The standout fo...more
This is a collection of brief pieces, mostly featuring the adult Augusten in moments of self-awareness and dot-connecting. His love for his partner and his disgusting bulldogs is touching, but I liked this collection best at its most observational-- his building anxiety and dread over getting locked out of his apartment, and his alcoholic depresso-den being exposed to the world when the locksmith finally opens the door; his feverish addiction to nicotine gum; his horror of staying at a b&b packed with creepy dolls; his hilarious justification of his theft of a Harvard t-shirt. This is more funny "heh" than funny "oh sweet jesus help me," but I liked it, because I like him.
The standout fo...more
