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Title: It isn't funny. It isn't interesting. I don't buy it.
Review: I kind of felt like all he did was combine the most disturbing things he could think of into as few pages as possible for the shock factor rather than tell a story, and the effect was, of course, that nothing was all that appalling. It also was kind of sucky that he spent so little time actually getting into his own head--something I quite enjoy about memoirs--everything just seemed to be about adding this shock factor and this shock factor until nothing really mattered at all. It wasn't funny either. There wasn't a single moment I cracked even a smile at anything that was "supposedly" funny. Augusten Burroughs seems like he'd be a really boring person to hang out with.That being said, the book was readable and I got through it in merely two days. It wasn't terrible. It was pretty weird. But for me, it wasn't all that interesting. Thankfully I didn't buy it and just got it from the library.
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