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    Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird

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    Image of pesematology pesematology
    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    I don't know who this is but I like the description. I aspire to be that type of weird. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    What is so strange about a draped bed, exactly? Some people like it. I mean, it does seem to be a little bit of a mess, and not too tidy, but "crazily draped"? #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    The good part about Running with Scissors is the kibble-eating part. And that's it. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    I loved Running With Scissors and Dry. I think he got stuck after that, once he found happiness in his life. He kept on writing memoirs, but they could never reach the crazy heights of those two books. Now that things aren't going so well, maybe the writing will improve? He seems almost happy to have something to write about now. I wish he'd try fiction again, his one novel (Sellevision) wasn't bad. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @tundrababe: Dry made me cry like a baby. That was such a good book. #augustenburroughs
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    10/27/09

    @chatterboxwriting: Pighead = tears. :-( #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    Should we be surprised? The man had a crazy upbringing and is a chronic over-sharer. I honestly expected worse. (And yes, RWS is more disturbing than good. Dry, however, is one of my fav memoirs.) #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @jleigh: I liked most of his books, although Scissors is disturbing, and I didn't read the most recent (about his father). I liked the short stories about the dogs and Dennis and such ... sort of like Sedaris, only darker. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @otherginger: I think most favorable comparisons to Sedaris are kind of blasphemous (except to David Rakoff, who's work is darker, yet they do share a similar sensibility). While Burroughs and Sedaris may share a similar source of material, Sedaris is just...so much better. I've read all of Burroughs books (I'm a memoir junky) and I say meh. He's not awful like say, James Frey (I don't care if his stuff is fake or not, fiction or non-fiction, he is suck), but I think the intrigue of Burroughs work is more in the story than the quality of writing, while Sedaris is a master of content and presentation. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @booter26: I totally agree. I hated that Augustin Burroughs was marketed like David Sedaris. It was such a let down for me. Whenever another author is compared to Sedaris, I'm always hugely disappointed.
    David Sedaris has this way of taking a harsh but compassionate look at the people in his stories, and he has such a humble quality. He's exposing others, but always taking a more searing look at himself.
    When I read Augustin Burroughs, I see a man who has earned his dysfunction. But still a narcissist, maybe even a sociopath. He exposes himself at his worst, but still doesn't give himself to the reader. The only book of his in which he came close was "A Wolf at the Table." #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    I had thought about reading Running a few times, but then my roommate brought home the awful awful film they made out of it.

    He always sort of struck me as a second-rate Carrie Fisher. #augustenburroughs
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    Image of Stacy Davis Stacy Davis
    10/22/09

    @Lizard in the Wires now with even MORE metal in the face!: i loved the book, haaaaaated the movie. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Stacy Davis: The movie was just godawful. Gwyneth Paltrow was terrible for her part, and they had to drag an Elton John song through that mess, too. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    In reply to Breaking: Augusten Burroughs Is Weird
    Am I the only person who was not charmed or amused by "Running With Scissors"? #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: No. I hated it, too. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Diziet_Sma: Oh, thank you. I was afraid I was the only one. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: SO ANNOYING!!!

    (Burroughs, not you.)
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: I only read it because a friend bought it for me after raving about it - I kept thinking, 'maybe I will give a shit about these spoilt and completely unrealistic characters in this barely believable plot, if I just read the next chapter - doh!' And then I got to the end. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Clare116: Yes! My husband loved the book, and thought I was nuts. I found it incredibly annoying. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: I was too weirded out to have a coherent opinion on it. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Diziet_Sma: It did not ring true to me. And I didn't like a single person in the book. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Diziet_Sma: I don't know how unbelieveable they actually are. After an ex read the book and saw the movie, he went (in reference to Burroughs' mother), "Oh my god, that's my mother." That said, one tether to reality doesn't make it a great book.

    I liked what he wrote about advertising, but that might have been in Dry. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @hydrogen_jukebox: That's a valid response. I grew up in a Norman Rockwell kinda home, and Burroughs is 15 years my senior and maybe it was a different time, but I just thought everything about the household was so insane, I couldn't imagine how a counselor, a neighbor, a teacher, SOMEONE wouldn't have called social services on the whole lot. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Diziet_Sma: You just described exactly how I feel when trying to read anything by Dave Eggers. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: It was like a John Irving novel, except that it was making a truth claim. Which made it slimier than your average John Irving novel, and that's saying something. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @BoatGirl: Yeah, I can't get into his writing, either. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: THANK YOU. The entire point of the memoir was to say, "look at my weird and crazy life!" No internal dialogue, no insight, no unveiling of humanity or human truths. Just, "look at the freakshow!" #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: No, it just depressed me. The fact that everyone seemed to find it hilarious was even more depressing. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PaintedTrollop: it was grotesque. and not in a good way. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Diziet_Sma: & @PaintedTrollop: I also thought it was completely unbelievable. It was TOO over the top, trying to hard to be quirky. He's a decent writer but...something is just off. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @bluebears: Ha! I wish my husband was still alive so he could read all this! He loved that book - and I could say, "See, told you so!" Some people will do anything to get out of hearing "I told you so." #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @PilgrimSoul: This comparison is awesome.
    Also, Burroughs is not my cup of tea. I don't enjoy narcissistic memoirs that try to win reader's goodwill by describing outlandish examples of how crappily they treat others. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @bluebears: Yes, it was quirksome. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @Diziet_Sma: I feel that way about most contemporary fiction. It's annoying to have to start and abandon so many dull stories. I don't hesitate to be ruthless now -- life's too short. #augustenburroughs
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    10/22/09

    @ardentlilac: Oh, you're right - I only really persevered because a good friend bought it for me and I felt I owed it to her. She also bought me Revolutionary Road & Geek Love, both brilliant, so. . .

    btw, a recommendation: I'm currently reading The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt - proper writing and I can't put it down. #augustenburroughs
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    10/24/09

    @Diziet_Sma: I wish I could finish anything, anything A.S. Byatt writes! She's my female Umberto Eco -- the writer everyone says is so great, the writer I can appreciate in theory but just can't get through in reality. Add Doris Lessing to that list. Now, the movies based on her books? Luvved Angels and Insects and Possession. I'm a philistine. #augustenburroughs
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