Possible Side Effects (paperback)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780739474969 (0739474960)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Augusten Burroughs gives me a happy. While Running With Scissors contains MANY shocking/graphic/awful stories that are frosted with humor, Possible Side Effects provides all the giggle without the remorse of laughing at someone else’s expense. Burroughs’ essays are sheer comedic genius. Truly lau...
An enjoyable enough collection of essays by the author of Running with Scissors and Dry. None of these pieces appears to have been published in a magazine before this anthology, and editing may have helped some of them. The quality varies, with many pieces relying on a sort of weak rim-shot punchlin...