Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors

By Augusten Burroughs

  • Release Date: 2010-04-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
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From 391 Ratings

Description

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!

Running with Scissors 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, Augusten Burroughs 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....

Running with Scissors 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.

Reviews

  • Great

    4
    By Isabella79
    Very well written..
  • Loved this book

    5
    By klopez13
    I really liked the book
  • One of my favorite reads!

    5
    By noobalicous253
    I am usually a guy who reads "Graphic Novels" or Horror Books. But this one is great! Its telling you the life of an aspie!
  • Great read!

    5
    By Aplefail
    Unlike others below, it's a great read! Auto biographies always keep you interested and every novel by this author is great and true or else it wouldn't be called such. Worth every penny and every other novel by AB. Buy actual book so you can read faster and better though. iBooks is great for buying books for kids, not adults.
  • Wonderful rollercoaster

    5
    By e.a. ledbetter III
    If only 25% true, still hair-raising.
  • Crazy good

    5
    By Blair1283
    Read this years ago and read it again now. Couldn't put it down both times! Such crazy experiences...keeps you interested!