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Outstanding Praise for Running with Scissors
"The most amazing book . Hilarious, freaky-deaky, berserk, controlied, transcendent, touching, affectionate, vengeful, all-embracing. It makes you happy that there's such a thing in the world as a string of written words A golden effervescence of invention and wit that stuns you with its audacity and beauty and powerful love of being alive. Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water."
—Carolyn See, The Washington Post
"Bawdy, outrageous, often hilarious account. . . Some of this story might have been imagined by William Burroughs.This family's scatological method of fortune-telling would be right at home in Naked Lunch. But the anecdotes can be so flippant, and so insanely funny (quite literally), that the effect is that of a William Burroughs situation comedy In keeping with this book's dauntless comic timing, this guy doesn't miss a... Tovább

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Outstanding Praise for Running with Scissors
"The most amazing book . Hilarious, freaky-deaky, berserk, controlied, transcendent, touching, affectionate, vengeful, all-embracing. It makes you happy that there's such a thing in the world as a string of written words A golden effervescence of invention and wit that stuns you with its audacity and beauty and powerful love of being alive. Running with Scissors, as a memoir in the current conventional sense, makes a good run at blowing every other contender out of the water."
—Carolyn See, The Washington Post
"Bawdy, outrageous, often hilarious account. . . Some of this story might have been imagined by William Burroughs.This family's scatological method of fortune-telling would be right at home in Naked Lunch. But the anecdotes can be so flippant, and so insanely funny (quite literally), that the effect is that of a William Burroughs situation comedy In keeping with this book's dauntless comic timing, this guy doesn't miss a beat." —Janet Maslin, The NewYork Times
"Burroughs's memoir is irreverent, scurrilous, profane, licentious, horrifie, and vile. It'll warp your mind, upset the neighbors, and lower your standing in the community. In other words, it's funny as heil. He spews his life story onto the page with such style, wit, and honesty that you want to comfort him—and then steal his funniest lines." —Elle
"A cut above . . . Screamingly funny. . . Two things make Burroughs's book so com-pelling: his wit and his depiction of the wild goings-on in this large, stränge family But the true source of Running with Scissors's appeal stems from Burroughs's ability to bring
the 1970s alive____In the end, the book celebrates Burroughs's résilient, upbeat spirit,
which helps him surmount one of the weirder childhoods on record."
—Deirdre Donahue, USA Today
"The irresistible Augusten Burroughs. . . Outrageously amusing [He] rises above the standard get-a-load-of-my-material type of book Seriously, wait until you get a load of this guy's materia-^ Hilarious And he can consider this a fan letter. Grade A." —Entertainment Weekly
"Burroughs has memorialized his bizarre childhood, showing off a dark wit that often rivals that of David Sedaris—while telling a true story that would make even Sedaris cringe." —NewYork magazine Vissza