I only question him in his ability to tell the complete truth and admit it if he isn't. Augusten has gone on to write many more pseudo-memoires, and I'm sure a lot of them are just as good, if not better (or worse, since you know, that's a possibility).

Think what you will, I thought it was pretty darn good. Regardless of what was true and what wasn't, I read the shit out of the book and enjoyed it immensely what carries it is Burroughs' gift for highly descriptive language/choice of words, and the story actually drew you in emotionally with a blend of humor and melancholy.

That was the plot of the 2002 memoir 'Running with Scissors', written by Augusten Burroughs himself, that was eventually revealed by its author to be a mixture of fact and fiction. Finch, Neil Bookman (Joseph Fiennes), who is several decades older than Augusten. It also concerns Augusten's realization of his sexuality as well as his relationship with the adopted son of Dr. This is the story of Augusten's adolescent years spent in this crazy house with these crazy people and those crazy thoughts that go through your head when you're of that age. The Finch house is populated by the doctor, his daughters, and his wife, who eats dog food directly from the rough paper bag while watching 'Dark Shadows'. Finch (Brian Cox) a good doctor, according to Deidre. His father (Alec Baldwin) - an alcoholic - and his mother Deidre (Annette Bening) - a psychotic - fought constantly and eventually their kitchen-bound warfare of both the physical and emotional variety got so intense that Burroughs' mother sent him to live with her psychiatrist, Dr. At the age of twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself the sole child in the middle of a rough marriage.

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