Running with Scissors

Running with Scissors: a memoir by Augusten Burrough was published in 2002.

Burrough has a distinct voice. I love the way he says things. "My bother had a unique way of communicating though grunts and snorts like, one can only assume, our very distant ancestors." It makes me laugh. The very nature of Burroughs adventures with the Finch family are comedic which I guess was nice after being stuck between the terrible fights of his parents.

Personally I think Augusten became a spoiled brat with not responsibilities in life at all. He didn't go to school AT ALL. How can his parents do that? I don't understand. He was intelligent, I'll give him that but I just really wish he could have done something normal like go to school.

It's entertaining to me that Augusten wants to be a hairstylist, so he practices on himself and everyone in the Finch house, but he's just terrible. The thing is he doesn't every want to be a hairstylist, he just wants to be a hair styling product package designer. But he insists on doing and ruining EVERY ONES hair.


So far Running with Scissors reminds me of The Glass Castle by I think it was Jeanette Walls... Memoirs about people with crazy families are always interesting to me.