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Title: Horrifying Humor
Review: Running With Scissors is a memoir of Augusten Burroighs' snarled childhood, although some of the events described in the book are so over the top that they must surly be the inventions of a twisted mind. But no; the story is said to be factual.Bourroughs grows up gay in a degenerate family -- a lesbian mother and a drunken father. He is sent to live with a perverted psychiatrist and his dysfunctional family in a home that always has dirty dishes in the sink.The saving grace of this memoir is the writing. Burroughs knows how to lead the reader from one ridiculous situation to the next with unexpected twists and turns told with horrifying humor.Among the memoir books, Running with Scissors gets a well earned 5 stars.
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