This book, Running with Scissors is very insane. Its about this boy, Augusten, whos mother gave him away to a psychiatrist, Mr. Finch, and his insane family. (Hope, Natalie, Kate, Poo, Brenda) And when i say insane, i mean, insane. The way it makes it seem on the back isn't what it makes out to be. Its much more than the summary on the back. Its a very hilarious book and i want to talk about the things that interested me in the book.
Let me warn you : Its INSANE but yet funny. Also, it has stuff like, homosexual things and other stuff.
And im not going to tell you the ending. I hate it when people tell me the ending of things like movies and books. Thats like finding out your gift before you open it.
So anyway, the psychiatrist, who is called Doctor, is so weird. He has his own Masturbatorium. The chapter is called : Masturbatorium. And the thing is, its at his office, not his home. His office, where his patients go and talk to him about their problems. So its like,
"Whenever i feel i need to relieve, i can just ask my patients to leave and go jerk off because, you know, i have my own Masturbatorium."The funny thing about that is, his daughter, Hope, who works for him was sleeping in their and when he walked in on her sleeping on the couch, this is what he said,
"Hope, you have no business being in here. This is my Masturbatorium and you're using my blanket."The blanket that he uses? The couch that he sits on? His daughter? His room - jerking off room?
Can you say disgusting.
And his Hope didn't even mind it. She was just like, "i was just sleeping". ON A COUCH WHERE YOUR FATHER JERKS OFF. No, it didn't bother her at all.
Thats not even the beginning: When Augusten first meets the doctors family, it has made quite an impact on him and me. i thought it was just crazy. When he first meets them, he has his standards in the very beginning. So, what happened is, the doctors son, Poo, came in the room when Augusten and the girls were showing him the electric chair. Its supposed to be "Therapy". So, when he came in, they showed Poo, who was very young, the electric chair and frightened him. And when he ran out the room, you wouldn't believe the crazy shit he did.
Funny that i say shit, cause thats exactly what he was doing. Taking a shit, underneath the piano. Tell me, if you were to see your son, taking a shit, ON YOUR FLOOR, would you sit there, WATCH, and then CLAP when he is done taking a shit on your lovely floor. i mean, that shit, is just crazy. i would think that if you are going to let a boy shit on the floor, your dog can do it too. They have a cat and a dog, maybe the cat shits on the floor too.
Oh, i just think im going to take a shit on the floor and perform for you guys because my bowels are just great.
Talking about bowels, at one point in the book, the doctor was saying that his bowel movements were messages from god. That since his poo was pointing up, it meant that his financial life was going up. So, he picked it up with a spatula, and set it out to dry. Not only that one, but all of his. And his daughters. Except Natalie. She didn't let him.
Natalie was indeed the interesting daughter in this book. She was crazy and didn't care what people thought about her. When she was staying at the hotel, and the maid had stole her earrings, she had talked to the manager about it and he had claimed she lost them somewhere in the room. So, what she did was take every thing out the room and put it in the pool.
She's crazy. Indeed.
Theres a chapter called Family Affair, and its where his mom, his mom's girlfriend, and his "adopted dad" were all living together. His "adopted dad" tried to have sex with Augusten but he wasnt having it. So his "dad" had sex with his mom, his mom's girlfriend, and Natalie.
And then they had a yeast infection. It was funny how she put it, but i will let you see what she said. i won't be the one to tell you. It just shows how crazy she is.
Not only is Natalie crazy, but Hope is crazy as well. She had her moment of crazyness as every member of the family does. Hope had claimed that she had dreams that her cat was dying so she thought the cat was dying. When in all actuality, the cat was okay and the only thing the cat was going to die from was her. She never let the cat go, and barely let it actually roam around. And then she put the cat in a hamper and waited with the cat. Want to know what happened to cat? Go read the book.
Now, all of this, is not the basic meaning of the story, don't get me wrong. This isnt even a story, this is a memoir. Its a true story, this really happened to Augusten.
Now, Augusten had this whole thing behind him. He is gay, and he is introduced to a 33 yr old man, named Neil, and they have a relationship. i believe its more as a sex relationship cause thats mainly what they do when they are with each other, talk and then have sex. i mean, i would go on in description about this subject but i wont to tell you to much. So, yea, they had a sex relationship and the mom is okay with it. She supports it actually. I be damned if my son dates a 33 yr old when he is only 15.
And then later, Neil claims he is in love, or as it is said, they are in love or they have falling into something that they couldn't get out of. But later in the text he writes a note on a candy bar saying,
You are nothing but a sex object.I mean, i thought sex objects were a dildo, not something, somebody you are in love with. Excuse me if im wrong.
Now, after Augusten was informed that he was just a sex object everything changed from there. Every little detail came intact, and every little piece came in place.
Interesting, hilarious, and very good. It will have you reading every page until the end. And i mean it.
I recomend this book :
Running with Scissors
By Augusten Burroughs
a Memoir
When you read it, or if you have already read it, comment me or follow me on twitter and tell me about it.
Alright - bye.
Just Saying.












