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So it turns out I don't really like Augusten Burroughs as much as I thought I did. The shorter essays & articles I'd read by him lead me to expect a dry, quirky wit in this memoir. Instead it's just ... dry ... and boring. A kid obsesses about a heater. Maybe it gets better, but I just haven't been motivated to find out. Setting this one aside for now ...
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This is the story of young Augusten, whose recently divorced mother makes him live with her therapist's family for his formative teenage years. The Finches are a strange lot and he and Dr. Finch's daughters are left largely to their own devices.
While if I thought deeply about some of the events, this might have been a tragic story, the memoir is told in a way that often made me laugh... or cringe in disgust. This is along the lines of something by David Sedaris, although a little less relatable ...more
While if I thought deeply about some of the events, this might have been a tragic story, the memoir is told in a way that often made me laugh... or cringe in disgust. This is along the lines of something by David Sedaris, although a little less relatable ...more
the movie sucks, by the way.
I read this cover to cover on July 4th. (yay, America!) I really enjoyed Burrough's descriptions ("She was looking at this one spoon that had a reflection of the ceiling light in it. Almost like you could eat the light if you wanted to, like it was cereal."). I did feel, however, that two thirds in he felt rushed to end it, and the last third lacks the sparkle of the beginning. Which makes sense for a memoir, but oh well!
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An incredibly hilarious, morbidly twisted memoir that will hook you in despite the grotesquely absurdities the author had to face and go through while growing up with bizarre and dysfunctional people. A truly riveting read. Highly recommended. :)
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