Negative Positive
Title: Addicted to Crisis?
Review: For about five pages Augesten Burroughs' life is seemingly ordianry and yet not.You know there's something just "off" with his mom and her illusions of grandeur. And his father is "a dried mackerel that should stand up and wear a tweed." He quickly disappears from Burroughs' life.And if a disappearing father isn't bad enough, his mother would eventually flippantly sign over Augusten's life to her extremely bizarre psychaiatrist.This book is that life, life in the insane doctor's house."All I want is normal. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis?"The best writing about a tragic life is the writing that makes you laugh at the abject sadness of it all.Augusten Burroughs nails it.
Is the review positive or negative? 