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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32370.Dry_A_Memoir?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Dry: A Memoir" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168389326m/32370.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32370.Dry_A_Memoir?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Dry: A Memoir</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/5282344?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>When discussing Burroughs' "Running With Scissors" with my old high school English teacher, she commented that she would have found the book excellent if she needed to make an addition to her gay porn collection, but alas, she didn't. This, however, is also the woman who told students that she could "eat alphabet soup and crap out a better essay." <br/> <br/>Moral of the story, I did like "Running With Scissors," and that's what pushed me to buy "Dry." <br/> <br/>"Dry" follows a young Augusten Burroughs, freshly escaped from his screwed-up childhood, as outlined in "Running With Scissors," into a successful yet unfullfilling advertising career in midtown Manhattan. Apparently, without any education past elementary school or any job experience besides waitering at the Ground Round, Burroughs got an extremely high profile high-paying job at one of the city's foremost advertising agencies. That doesn't really add up for me- are you supposed to suspend your disbelief for a memoir? I digress. <br/> <br/>Regardless of the liberties he may or may not have taken with the truth, Burroughs' humor, candor, and the colorful characters you meet along the way will make you not want to put down this funny, bittersweet account of life on the edge of a martini glass. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/60968?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>