10. Running with Scissors

10. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (5/13/2011 - 5/15/2011)

I have to say that I was very disappointed by this book.  I enjoyed "Magical Thinking" and so purchased this at the book fair, hoping it would be as good or better considering that this is the book I always hear about when people discuss Augusten Burroughs.  But it just wasn't -- the situation he is in is horrendous and I found nothing funny about any of the story at all. In fact, I felt horrified -- how, for example, was his mother not  prosecuted for child abuse by leaving him in that situation? How could this so-called doctor he was living in be licensed? How could any of those kids/family members do things like that to other people? There was nothing redeeming about this book except the I think obvious fact that you should not leave your child with someone you really don't know. How dumb can you be?  I would write more, but frankly I just don't want to -- the book was that bad. Hopefully the other book by him that I own, "Possible Side Effects," is better...