Steven S. reviewed on 3/30/2010

I'm a pretty big fiction fan, and rarely enjoy anything that has that 'this really happened!' feel too it. That being said this was a pretty good book. It tackles addiction and relationship problems, and briefly relates too prejudice. However, Augusten (narrator, author) gets over his addiction (he's an alcoholic by the way) so quickly that you sort of wonder why it was such a problem in the first place. Of course, it's not like he could have written that he was a crazy drunk if he really wasn't. Wasn't an earth-shattering, life-altering read, but still, pretty good. Also, it's reviewed as super dark humor, and I disagree. He talks about some very dark subjects, but the jokes are few and far in between.

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