Possible Side Effects (Paperback)

from booklover3258

I absolutely loved this book! It's compiled of short stories by the author of funny and true stories of him growing up and just weird situations. I laughed out loud a few times. It was very interesting and worth the read. I will never get the picture out of my head of the dog being painted to rac...

from justablondemoment

For the most part I laughed all the way through this book. A few chapters ,especially towards the end, were a bit slow. It's not that they were boring just as the book went on the chapters were not as funny as the beginning. Some time ago I started reading "Running with Scissors" but had never fi...

from SqueakyChu

An uneven book. A few of these stories are hilarious. Some are amusing. Others are offensive. The book starts out on a high note and descends. Too bad. There are two stories, however, which do stand out. "Bloody Sunday" is the story of 8-year-old Augusten whose first tooth falls out while he was ...

from csweder

This is a collection of short stories, and it was pretty good. Augusten lived a pretty messed up childhood, and it sounds like it developed into some pretty hard core addiction problems. He writes about his life, and I laugh, until I realize this is supposed to be true? Then I feel incredibly s...

from bensdad00

Portions will make you laugh out loud but the payoffs are to few and to far apart. The lack of an index or table of contents is annoying (particularly when trying to craft a coherent review) but the two stories that stick the most in the mind are the first and the last. Whether this reflects wise...