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Title: left me feeling like I needed to take a shower...
Review: Running with Scissors is a strangely intriguing book with no redemptive value. It is written in a way that makes the reader want to keep reading, however, nothing good ever comes of it all. I felt like I needed a mind cleansing after reading it. I read a lot of books about difficult topics, so I am not squeamish, but this book had no point.Also, I always question "memoirs" that use a lot of direct quotes (which Burroughs does). Was he carrying around a tape recorder all of his childhood? Or meticulously keeping a diary with exact words that people had said? It made me very dubious of the content of the book.
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