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Magical Thinking : True Stories |
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Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Audio CD (Abridged)
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From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes a collection of true stories that confirms Augusten Burroughs’s position as one of our top satirists and memoirists
Augusten Burroughs’s break-out bestseller Running with Scissors reinvented and redefined the memoir. Dry proved that he could do it again. And now, with this collection, he sets a new standard for the personal essay. Whether he’s describing a contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady, the simultaneous thrill and self-disgust that comes from killing a rodent in your home, or the instinctive desire for fifteen minutes of fame in a Tang commercial, these stories give voice to thoughts we all have but dare not mention. What makes the collection so original is Augusten’s sharp-eyed observations about things that are unique to him, but somehow universal to us all. Magical Thinking is contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical.
Augusten Burroughs’s break-out bestseller Running with Scissors reinvented and redefined the memoir. Dry proved that he could do it again. And now, with this collection, he sets a new standard for the personal essay. Whether he’s describing a contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady, the simultaneous thrill and self-disgust that comes from killing a rodent in your home, or the instinctive desire for fifteen minutes of fame in a Tang commercial, these stories give voice to thoughts we all have but dare not mention. What makes the collection so original is Augusten’s sharp-eyed observations about things that are unique to him, but somehow universal to us all. Magical Thinking is contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical.
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The author of Running With Scissors and Dry reads this book (on 7 discs). In his own wonderful way he tells true tales of experiences that are funny, and sometimes dark
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If you like Agusten Burroughs, or have read "Running with Scissors" you will enjoy this. I love his bizzar sense of humor!
Damaris D. (I only got through the second disk. He does something awful to a rat. I won't say what because it made me uncomfortable and I don't want to do that to someone else. I know it's only a rat, but I don't have any desire to hear that sort of thing. The image has stuck with me ever since and I am never reading any of his stuff again. I wish I had been warned.
Very funny, true stories by Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and Dry.
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