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Running With Scissors: Now a Major Motion Picture

Running With Scissors: Now a Major Motion Picture

byAugusten Burroughs
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megan
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5.0 out of 5 starsMum always said, "Don't run with scissors!" (but I did anyway)
1 April 2016
Running With Scissors was one of the most bizarre books I have ever read. It was so shocking, dark, crude, crazy, funny, poignant and as left-of -centre that you can get, that I found it compulsive reading.
I first read Running With Scissors as a hard copy when it was first published (I've never seen the movie). I've just reread it as an ebook and was just as astounded. If you choose the challenge of reading it too, be prepared for an eccentric, cathartic journey, written in present tense, that may or may not have been embellished for effect. Not for everyone, I realise, but I gave it 5 stars for the wow factor. Really, my eyes bulged and my eyebrows remained in an upward position for some time! It certainly took me out of my comfort zone into a darker Alice in Wonderland experience. I can't say I loved the book and I wouldn't say it was well-written, but it had me mesmerised from start to finish. I read the retrospective follow-up, Wolf at the Dinner Table, and found that pretty repulsive...go figure!
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Bebe18
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1.0 out of 5 starsJust a bit on the crude side for me
6 August 2015
What a load of cobblers! Started off ok-ish, then it was all down hill from there. Some of the humour is strangely funny but it was the crudeness of the story that finally got the better of me. Needless to say I could not bring myself to finish this yarn which may make me a bit of a prude but enough detail is enough and I just did not need to know about all the disgusting antics the various members of the Finch family (and Augusten himself) got up to.
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megan
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5.0 out of 5 starsMum always said, "Don't run with scissors!" (but I did anyway)
1 April 2016
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Running With Scissors was one of the most bizarre books I have ever read. It was so shocking, dark, crude, crazy, funny, poignant and as left-of -centre that you can get, that I found it compulsive reading.
I first read Running With Scissors as a hard copy when it was first published (I've never seen the movie). I've just reread it as an ebook and was just as astounded. If you choose the challenge of reading it too, be prepared for an eccentric, cathartic journey, written in present tense, that may or may not have been embellished for effect. Not for everyone, I realise, but I gave it 5 stars for the wow factor. Really, my eyes bulged and my eyebrows remained in an upward position for some time! It certainly took me out of my comfort zone into a darker Alice in Wonderland experience. I can't say I loved the book and I wouldn't say it was well-written, but it had me mesmerised from start to finish. I read the retrospective follow-up, Wolf at the Dinner Table, and found that pretty repulsive...go figure!
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Bebe18
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1.0 out of 5 starsJust a bit on the crude side for me
6 August 2015
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What a load of cobblers! Started off ok-ish, then it was all down hill from there. Some of the humour is strangely funny but it was the crudeness of the story that finally got the better of me. Needless to say I could not bring myself to finish this yarn which may make me a bit of a prude but enough detail is enough and I just did not need to know about all the disgusting antics the various members of the Finch family (and Augusten himself) got up to.
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Andrew Allison
4.0 out of 5 starsFull of very dark humour
25 July 2014
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One obviously feels great sympathy for the your Augusten, with his mad mother, and alcoholic father, and crazy (if not completely mad) foster family. One suspects that the stories have been embellished, for the purpose of the book, but even so, it is a very moving account. The chapters read rather like episodes of a sit-com. The story ends a little bit too abruptly for me, but over-all, I regard it higly. It made me laugh a lot...
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1.0 out of 5 starsAwful
18 June 2015
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I persisted with this book even though it gets ridiculous and not believable very early on in the piece. There are some seriously disturbing scenes involving children which are treated casually that also put me off. After these it goes to another level of ridiculousness which I could no longer buy into, and did not want to waste my time beyond the half way point. Overall.....don't waste your time on this one
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Jerry
4.0 out of 5 starsProbably don't run
8 January 2017
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Good read for a short glimpse into the world of crazy people diagnosing crazy people. Would read this book again.
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18 April 2016
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Had me hooked
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting but detached
19 July 2015
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Interesting stories, but somewhat detached.
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6 September 2014
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Love this truly amazing story
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