RUNNING WITH SCISSORS: A Review

Growing up in the 70’s, Burroughs was left by his mother to live with her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. Together with the other adopted Finch children, Burroughs experiences adolescence and teenage/young adult years in a very radical house and family with too much freedom.

The family believes that a child reaches his maturity at the age of 13, and no adult can tell him or her what to do. This may sound like paradise to most teenagers. And while Burroughs initially embraced and enjoyed his freedom (he was encouraged to explore his homosexuality) in the end he realizes that he needs boundaries and rules, and that all he really wanted was a “Hamburger Helper” mother.

I am still perplexed by the accolades this book has gotten. It has been marketed as a "humorous memoir," which is half-right. If you find the dysfunctionals on Jerry Springer and Maury Povich funny and entertaining, then this book is for you. White trash ruining each other's lives.

THIS is considered literature?

BIBLIO SAYS: Don't bother.