thank you. I am cruising amazon as we speak and I will take a look. Mainly though I am looking for presents for the kids and that one sounds like it would be for me if anything :)
So far I have Wicked French, Wicked German, and two set of headphones. I am contemplating A Wizard of EarthSea for Lara and Skeleton Man for me, Dana On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:36:39 -0800, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes it helps :) not familiar with this book, would you recommend it? > > Yes, actually I would. > > I heard the author talking about it on Fresh Air about 2 weeks ago. > He's just released a book of autobiographical short stories and they > were going over the subjects of his first two books (also > autobiographical). > > the story is pretty interesting, set in the late 70s, his mother and > father divorce after bitter late night battles. As his mother slowly > goes crazy, Augusten is adopted by his mother's psychiatrist. He moves > into their house, with the doctor's other "children (actual and > adopted)", and has a homosexual relationship with a man more than > twice his age (Augusten was 13 or 14 at the time). There's more, but I > wouldn't want to spoil the surprise. > > !_! > > Now, all that being said, the reason i decided to read the book was > that Augusten himself described the tone of his book as a warm > rememberance of a terrible childhood. His writing style relates his > horrific life story in a way that people remember the good times. And > strange as that may seem, he's dead-on. It really works. I get a real > feeling of 'boy I'm glad it wasn't me,' while reading. And I have > trouble putting it down. > > To paraphrase Happy Bunny, 'it makes me laugh and it makes me want to > throw up a little bit.' > > Enjoy! > > (his second memoir is called 'Dry' - I've got it on request at our > local library) > -- > > will > > "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; > and that would just be unacceptable." > - Carrie Fisher > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:140113 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
