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Book Review of Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Running with Scissors: A Memoir
reviewed Disturbing. . . on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4


This book is written in a very emotionally detached way so that it seemed even more disturbing than if it had been another "poor me" tale. It's horrific to read about the childhood Mr. Burroughs had, but it is refreshing to have it told in a humorous rather than ranting way. He has every reason to be bitter about how things happened when he was growing up, but he chooses not to.