by Augusten Burroughs
I haven't read any of Augusten's other work so I don't those to compare this one to, but this book is pretty dark and disturbing. Personally, I read this book less as a memoir and more as a work fiction just because of how it was written. I get that what he'd written very well could've happened, but...
With A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs makes a quantum leap into untapped emotional terrain: the radical pendulum swing between love and hate, the unspeakably terrifying relationship between father and son. Told with scorching honesty and penetrating insight, it is a story for anyone who has e...
I absolutely hated the first half of this book. I became suddenly aware that I had been swindled into thinking I was getting an amazing deal by finding this at the dollar store, and in the future I will be much more wary about buying books at any and all dollar stores. I really wanted to give up aft...
I know that a lot of people were disappointed in this book after Running With Scissors. Strangely enough, I liked this better than Running With Scissors. This is basically the story of Burroughs' relationship with his father. It's a relationship that was a quiet horror. Mind games are a terrible thi...
Whenever I read anything by Augusten Burroughs I'm surprised he can even function, let alone have a successful career. This is a memoir about his possibly homicidal father. Usually his books make me laugh out loud. This is not one of them. Burroughs is able to make you feel the dread he always felt ...
Considerably less playful than Burroughs's earlier memoirs, A Wolf at the Table paints a portrait of his father as an inexplicable, dangerous alcoholic. That's a pretty complete summary of the book--the rest is detail. As I was reading Burroughs's description of his family's home in Amherst, I pictu...
You can only take so much of the horror, you know?
Burroughs tells the story of his relationship with his father up until early adolescence, at which point his parents divorced. This is sort of loosely written, not exactly chronological, but that's to be expected with childhood memories. It's easy to read and moves quickly. If you look at it from ...
Log in with Facebook 
