Hysterical and touching. Burroughs has a gift for writing and a life that begs to be recorded. I love his work and this book was fantastic.

Typical Augusten Burroughs. A quick light read that is disturbing at times but not nearly as disturbing as "Running"!

"Ruthlessly funny...deliciously perverse...he extracts something funny from every shred of his own warped experience. Magical Thinking indeed."--People

Okay Okay... I was one of those people that read Running with Scissors and hated it. I still do, I think it was too over-the-top. I know he says it all really happened and I hate to say I don't believe him, but well... I don't believe ALL of it. How's that? I bought his other books, but they'd been gathering dust. I dunno, I just wasn't up for reading more weird wacky maybe-half-true stuff. Then I read Dry. Now I've read Magical Thinking. The man can write, dammit. And his brutal, adult, honesty hits you square in the nose. Oh yes, yes yes, he's funny, but most of his stories have an undertone to them, an almost moral (I wonder if he knew that when he wrote it?). Even the funny housekeeper (my favorite), it shows what a pushover we all can be when people are pushy with us, but it also shows that all of us have a spine and we use it. I dunno, maybe I read too much into it.

This was by far my favorite book. I was hoping it would be a continuation of Dry, about him making his way back from where he left of in Dry, it was, kind of. It was a book of short story memoirs, I suppose. I'm going to read the next one soon, hopefully that will answer my questions more fully :)

I loved Running with Scissors, and this memoir-like multiple-story book is at least as riveting, if not more so. Hilarious and thoughtful.

Another great collection of hilarious stories from Mr. Burroughs. I read this book in one sitting. Highly recommended!

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This book does not have the same wit and passion as his other books, Running with Scissors and Dry. It is fun to read about more escapades in his life as they have happened.

I just adored this series of stories. Burroughs is always hilarious, and this was definitely laugh-out-loud funny.

Read this after "Running" and found it to be just as funny, twisted, sick and over the top as the other. He is hilarious, though unfortunately (or not) due to the f-ed up life he led! Very quick read, laugh out loud. Favorite story in this book had to be the housecleaner one, "Debby's Requirements".

I haven't read this yet but I really liked his other two non-fiction books. I was given a copy when I already had one so I thought I'd post it.

I didn't enjoy this book as much as "Running With Scissors." I spent a lot of time wondering how such a self-centered man could have so many sexual partners.

Love A Burroughs. He is heartbreaking and funny.

Writes with a humorous knack. Often about gay lifestyle experience.

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