Post by unanimous on Nov 2, 2006 3:43:36 GMT 3
welll...me got two good books so will not be bullshitting for awhile..but...i shall leave you all with lingering smell and that music sweet goodbye by maroon 5.
SHAMELESSLY PLAGIARIZED FROM BARNES & NOBLE:
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS-To say that Augusten Burroughs had an unusual childhood would be an understatement. His eccentric mother -- a poet -- left him in the care of her shrink, a man who might have benefitted from a little therapy himself. Somehow, Augusten survived, and the result is this memoir, one both horrifying and hysterical.
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
*Hollywood have apparently recently butchered this film even though Annette Benning gave good performance as the mother...sooo i think i'd prolong my enjoyment by readinig the book instead*
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY - David Sedaris
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.
*well that above detail is quite lame but the book is funny so far, so ignore that.*
SHAMELESSLY PLAGIARIZED FROM BARNES & NOBLE:
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS-To say that Augusten Burroughs had an unusual childhood would be an understatement. His eccentric mother -- a poet -- left him in the care of her shrink, a man who might have benefitted from a little therapy himself. Somehow, Augusten survived, and the result is this memoir, one both horrifying and hysterical.
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
*Hollywood have apparently recently butchered this film even though Annette Benning gave good performance as the mother...sooo i think i'd prolong my enjoyment by readinig the book instead*
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY - David Sedaris
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.
*well that above detail is quite lame but the book is funny so far, so ignore that.*
