Book 8: Final Score
We're in the homestretch with less than two weeks to go to complete Running with Scissors. There were a number of people who had already read this one, and a few for whom it was new. If you've already finished, it's time to give the book your final rating.
***** = This was one of the best books I've ever read.
**** = It was a great book, I'd definitely recommend it.
*** = It was pretty good.
** = There were some parts that were OK, but overall not great.
* = Not great. At all.
0 = Didn't quite get around to this one.
Don't forget to go back and suggest your "book appropriate" wine pairings. From what I can tell about the book, suggesting some wine pairings might be the only appropriate topic of discussion available.
***** = This was one of the best books I've ever read.
**** = It was a great book, I'd definitely recommend it.
*** = It was pretty good.
** = There were some parts that were OK, but overall not great.
* = Not great. At all.
0 = Didn't quite get around to this one.
Don't forget to go back and suggest your "book appropriate" wine pairings. From what I can tell about the book, suggesting some wine pairings might be the only appropriate topic of discussion available.
**
I thought that there were a few funny parts in the book, but overall I thought it was pretty sad. I kept wondering how someone could ever make it through living in such crazy environments. Since he's written other autobiographies, I know that he has, but based on the subjects covered in those books I guess we could safely assume that he didn't make it through unscathed.
Some parts of his writing reminded me of Bret Easton Ellis (Glamorama) and others of David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day), and those were the parts that were funny to me - but still in kind of a tragic sort of way.
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I rate this one 1 star. I can't imagine why anyone would want to share all of this disfunction with the world. I did talk to someone last night who thought the book was great...so go figure.
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**
I kept wondering what the big deal about this book was. Shock value? I didn't see a lot of story to the story...it seemed like a string of shocking events strung together in an attempt to make a book.
It was fairly well-written, but overall I was disappointed. I just couldn't connect emotionally with the story or the people in it.
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It's been awhile since I read this one, and I suffer from the same "book amnesia" as Jennie. I could not emotionally connect either. I thought the book was depressing. I had high expectations for it after hearing the author interviewed on the radio...he was HILARIOUS!
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I thought the first part was good about his crazy mom and he was just a offbeat eccentric little boy and then it went into a downward spiral.
I read the most graphic point of the book while on vacation in Texas with the Mitchell's and I believe Sophie and Martin were playing on the floor while I was reading on the couch, I remember thinking that I shouldn't even be reading that with children nearby! Just having that type of dysfunction close to a child could disturb them.
I am interested to read his other books just to see how the rest of his life came to be. I was shocked that he could actually break himself free from the doctor with really no outside support.
I agree that there really wasn't any point to some of the stories he told, mostly, they were just put in there as filler and did not serve any purpose other than making me cringe. It also seemed that the book just all of a sudden wrapped up and everything went from completely wrong to okay in just a few pages.
Overall I give it a two - entertaining probably won't be one I remember much about.
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