You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009LI12HM
Publish date: October 27th 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Biography Memoir,
Short Stories,
Holiday,
Christmas
I say 3.75 stars the first three stories of his childhood past Christmas had me laughing out loud to myself. Biting a plastic Santa's lips off, and the things his parents got him for Christmas.Claus and Effect takes a turn into the more heart warming moments in his past Christmas times. Although Si...
It was dragging, but then on page 167 it felt like he'd punched me in the gut. Had me blinking away the tears.
Interesting to read as a companion to David Sedaris's Holidays on Ice. Where Sedaris's Christmas tales are absurd but restrained, Burroughs provides the more warped and damaged end of the spectrum (in the last piece, the warpage is literal). Some reviewers don't like Burroughs's sudden transition fr...
I liked this book, but didn't love it. Unusual for me when it comes to Augusten Burroughs. The book is comprised of vignettes about the author's various Xmas experiences. I was not able to accept the one childhood story. It felt too manufactured, too precious. The rest of the book worked better. Unf...
I thought I was going to hate this book and when I started it was even unsure why I was reading it except that it was in my library's new release section. I actually really liked this book. It was twisted, but not in a creepy way. More in a cynical Christmas way. I guess the old saying "Don't judge ...
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