Augusten Burroughs

[querelle]

Have any of you read his novel "Running With Scissors"? It was the funniest and also saddest thing I ever read. There's a movie coming out this fall about his memoirs. Here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFmiUliyiM

Enjoy!

Q

[lost-in-nj]

1. The movie looks

like it's going to be good.
But I didn't read the book....

lost

[bluethruandthru]

2. I read it...

and I got to meet Augusten and talk to him for a bit. Very nice, a little shy. After reading that book, I'm amazed that he's not off in a corner somewhere. Hard to believe that any child could go through what he did and turn out okay.

[joneschick]

3. my daughters read the book sometime this past year

I don't think they know about the movie. I love to know things before they do! thanks, I forwarded the link. :hi:

[swag]

4. I read it. A nice diversion about an insanely fucked up childhood.

I also read Dry, which was about his fight with alcohol. Another good airplane read.

I'm afraid to say that now that Augusten Burroughs has run out of traumatic memoir material, I find his writing less interesting. The collection Magical Thinking puts him in David Sedaris wannabe territory. And if people start comparing you to David Sedaris, you will not do well by comparison.

I recommend the book. You won't believe it.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. I read "Dry" while drunk and waiting for a train in Penn Station.

It was a good book.

[SteppingRazor]

6. My girlfriend's currently reading it...

given some of the passages she's shared with me, I don't know how they can possibly translate this thing to the big screen, and keep it true to the book, without a NC-17 rating, or worse.