Running With Scissors

My god. This book was sitting on my bookshelf for over a year and I finally decided to take a chance and read the book. It is one of the funniest stories ever written, and because it is a memoir, its much harder to believe that all these crazy things happened to one person.

The story follows Augusten Burroughs growing up gay, with a mentally ill mother, her psychotic shrink and his anything but normal family in Massachusetts. He fakes a suicide attempt to get out of school, has a sexual relationship with a man 20 years older than him by the time he was 13, smokes pot, drinks alcohol, studies feces positions and other oddities that people don't usually do on a day to day basis.

Of course I believe some things must have been exaggerated. It is impossible to realize that ALL of the events happened exactly the same way he creatively writes them in. But I couldnt put the book down much during my christmas break, and I think everyone would enjoy this story and wish for more.