Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Running With Scissors is a great book. The author's writing style is fantastic, so much so that the words just draw you in. Little effort is required on your part to get into the story, the words just leap off the page. An example of this would be near the beginning when he was cleaning the pennies, that scene sticks out in my mind for some reason as an example of his writing style. 

The story over all is great though. The story is about this young boy whose mother gives him to her shrink to live with because she feels she's too psychologically unwell to take care of him. The shrink's family is very eccentric and almost dysfunctional. 

The characterization was amazingly well done and the odd idiosyncrasies of the family Augusten had to live with were hilarious. Not too odd so as to seem contrived for the sole purpose of being 'weird', but odd enough to mirror the reality that we're all weird, some more dramatically than others, but this is why its so fun, yes? 

I smiled while reading this book, smiled out loud! I might even have chuckled here and there. It is definitely higher up on my list of books to recommend to friends.