Still no work at Son of the World's Best Temp Job

[serene]

I am reading Running With Scissors, the memoir by Augusten Burroughs.
People who say it's similar to David Sedaris's work are, I think, looking
at it in a very superficial way. Not every writer who is wry and gay and
obsessive-compulsive is doing the kind of work Sedaris is doing. I love
Sedaris. I love this book, too. It's an entirely different creature from
Sedaris's work: darker, more literary, more introspective, more personal,
less concerned with comedic value, more concerned with allowing the
grotesque to be funny on its own, and a bit less everyman, which is not
something I had thought about in relationship to Sedaris's work before
today.

Comments

[karenthecroccy.livejournal.com]

agreed :)

[baerana.livejournal.com]

I've been kinda interested in reading it, but was told it was much like "A boy called It" in the way of... well, let's just say the guy did some shady things to sell books.