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Laddar... Det är nåt som inte stämmerav Augusten Burroughs
  
Family Drama (8) » 21 till Page Turners (52) Autodidacts (2) Books Read in 2012 (43) One Book, Many Authors (400) Books Read in 2005 (46) Books Tagged Abuse (59) Teens (10) Unread books (543) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Mostly I'm horrified and sympathetic towards the people who were horribly manipulated by an unethical quack. (  ) IsraOverZero | Sep 23, 2023 |  Meh. (  ) Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 | I’ve been writing my memoirs and was told I needed to read “Running With Scissors” for a guidebook to memoir writing. This funny quirky book has all the elements of excellent writing. This is a beautifully told tale of the dysfunctional family and friends surrounding this gay boy. The first half is refreshingly genre busting brilliant while the latter parts are a less focused. Still a definitely worthwhile read. (  ) GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 | I don't really have much to say about this one except it reminded me heavily of my own childhood. At least, the parts about the kids anyway and maybe a few adults. It was interesting and I did enjoy this book even through all of the unpleasantness. I would recommend this book if you're looking for a coming of age biography. A coming of age biography that deals with almost completely absent and mentally ill parents, and a very weird adoptive family. (  ) Ranjr | Jul 13, 2023 | A memoir that makes you laugh, cry, and die a little inside are premium quality. RIP Freud the cat. ( ) Steph922 | Jun 22, 2023 |
 You will either love Running With Scissors or you will hate it. I loved it. OK, there are tedious passages, when you feel Burroughs is doing the writerly equivalent of adding extra stuffing to a perfectly comfortable beanbag. But it is impossible not to laugh at all the jokes; to admire the sardonic, fetid tone; to wonder, slack-jawed and agog, at the sheer looniness of the vista he conjures up.  The book, which promotes visceral responses (of laughter, wincing, retching) on nearly every page, contains the kind of scenes that are often called harrowing but which are also plainly funny and rich with child's-eye details of adults who have gone off the rails. Ingår i serienIngår iHar bearbetningenHar som instuderingsbokPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
This is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, the author found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs. It is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny, but above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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