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Title: The horror overcame any humor
Review: Our book club decided to read this and relied on the back jacket reviews of a humourous coming of age story- even the movie was portrayed as an outrageous comedy. I (and the group) agreed that we got stuck on the difficult growing up situation, the utter lack of any responsible adults in the story , the graphic nature of the descriptive writing (which is excellent) and the pedophilia - not the homosexuality. I reveled at Augusten's ability to overcome the tragic situation but didn't even chuckle once. This was a hard read becasue it was true- this actually happened. We didn't see the humor in it. I cannot recommend this to the average reader and defintely not to the faint of heart. Burroughs is a very rare individual who overcame the worst of circumstance, was essentially self taught, and went on to turn the dross into gold.
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