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Title: Self-indulgent and cruel
Review: It must be very hard to grow up with a mentally ill parent but I'd like to think that if my mother was so psychotic she was eating candles and cigarette sandwiches, I might actually be grateful, down the road, to know that , while teetering on the edge of sanity, she tried to find a safe place for me before she completely lost touch with reality. I can understand that Burroughs may not be able to forgive his mother for all the trauma she put him through but to actually write a book detailing the things she did while she was in the midst of a severe illness seems like a bit of an invasion of her privacy to me if not down-right cruel.This was a dreary and poorly written book; chock full of humor of the "eew gross" variety, obvious attempts to shock and far too many uses of the word "polyester.'
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