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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (editie 2003)

door Augusten Burroughs

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A memoir of Augusten Burroughs.

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Lid:	bindzywindzy91
Titel:	Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Auteurs:	Augusten Burroughs
Info:	RB Large Print (2003), Edition: Large Print Edition, Hardcover, 340 pages
Verzamelingen:	Jouw bibliotheek
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Running with Scissors door Augusten Burroughs

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I read "Look Me In The Eyes" before reading this and somehow I expected... more.

More fun. More humor.

It IS full of little weird and fun things but a bit disjointed. (

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cwebb | Apr 29, 2024 |

Very bizarre memoir. Very dysfunctional childhood. Mother gave guardianship to her psychiatrist when he was 13.

bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |

Now we know what would happen if a Jackie Collins novel mated with a Stephen King novel and the story was made into a National Lampoon movie. This is a bizarre story of two dysfunctional families that is very-well written and oddly funny. It's a testament to human resilience that the author didn't grow up to be a serial killer. (

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amandabeaty | Jan 4, 2024 |

Just... wut?

I didn't hate the writing, so I may read another of this author's books. Hence the 2 stars.

But this book... I can feel the filth. (

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Carnal.Butterfly | Jan 3, 2024 |

Mostly I'm horrified and sympathetic towards the people who were horribly manipulated by an unethical quack. (

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IsraOverZero | Sep 23, 2023 |

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thingScore 88

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.

toegevoegd door Nevov | bewerkThe Observer, Rachel Cooke (Feb 23, 2003)

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.

toegevoegd door Shortride | bewerkThe New York Times Book Review, Virginia Heffernan (Jul 14, 2002)

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Auteursnaam	Rol	Type auteur	Werk?	Status
Augusten Burroughs	—	primaire auteur	alle edities	berekend
Leivo, Arto	Vertaler	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd