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Title: Scissors Have No Edge
Review: Not too many words should be wasted on this book. Burroughs is not a decent writer (clearly he should have read and written more in school- or gone to school, for that matter.) He has trouble adopting a clear, authorial voice (odd as the book is a memoir) and judiciously balancing tragic elements with comic (the latter consisting mainly of adolescent potty humor.) I also resist buying into the veracity of this book as a retelling of real events.Flip ahead to the page where he alludes to "running with scissors" and the passage reads flat, unclimactic, almost neutered. And why did the publisher show a box covering a boy's head when the image should be a boy running with scissors? Sad to see the popularity of this book given how many better efforts are out there. Clearly, Burroughs' readers skipped as much school as he did.
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