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Title: Forgettable
Review: Augusten Burroughs has an interesting story to tell, but is incapable of telling it interestingly. He is a poor writer and has only his material to work with; if not for the facts of his childhood he wouldn't ever have written a book. His sentences are simplistic, childish, he has no distinct style to speak of at all and his imagination is utterly impoverished. I was taken in by all the hype. It's no wonder he's compared to Sedaris; neither writer has an edge. Reading them both is like shaving with a dull razor.
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