Exhilarating prequel

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	• A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father Augusten Burroughs St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 127 reviews view larger image
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A good read

I bought this book on a Thursday and finished in Saturday morning. It was a good read. I have read Burrough's "Dry" and "Running with Scissors." I enjoyed both. Like others have said, it was interesting to hear the story with the father as "nut" figure.

I'd recommend it to anyone, but it is a pretty heavy and dark read. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Exhilarating prequel

I was exhilarated with the book, as Burroughs took me to his early days and the stories before "Running With Scissors." Not only does he help explain a lot about the absence of his father in "Scissors" but also gives more preview information on the relationship of his mother and father, their divorce and his brother. But the information is only that -- it's the insight and growth Burroughs writes about that really makes the book such a beautiful and heart-felt read. He's grown so much as an individual and a writer, and it really shows in passage after passage of narrative and examination which really brought me to review and think differently about my own relationship with my father. It's writers like Burroughs that take me to that inner place of reflection and growth -- and make reading such a meaningful experience.

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Just OK

After reading the reviews I had high expectations from this book. It was an OK read but for me, there were no great insights and I certainly would not categorize it as "amazing". I know people who have lived through a lot worse without resorting to the pathetic, self-indulgent behaviour that Burroughs admits to.

reviews: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, page 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

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