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Running With The Scissors


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  • for the alloys Aluminum-copper,
    scissors
  • an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
  • a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move
  • An action in which two things cross each other or open and close like the blades of a pair of scissors
  • An instrument used for cutting cloth, paper, and other thin material, consisting of two blades laid one on top of the other and fastened in the middle so as to allow them to be opened and closed by a thumb and finger inserted through rings on the end of their handles
  • a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze
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  • run: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit"
  • The action or movement of a runner
  • run: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great emphasis on running"
  • An act of running a race
  • The sport of racing on foot
  • running(a): (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running water"

Betty & Running with Scissors
Betty & Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. "Running with Scissors covers the period of Burroughs' disturbed adolescent and teenage years, starting at age twelve. Burroughs is sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist, Dr. Finch, when his parents separate and his mother comes out as a lesbian. He lives in filthy conditions, where rules are practically non-existent and children of all ages basically do whatever they want. Burroughs tells Dr. Finch's adopted 33-year-old son, Neil Bookman, that he is gay. From the age of thirteen to fifteen, Burroughs has an intense and open sexual relationship with Bookman, which started when Bookman forced the young boy to perform oral sex on him. Neither his psychotic mother nor any member of the Finch family try to stop the relationship. Bookman is besotted with the young boy but later suddenly disappears and is never seen again. Burroughs forms a strong sibling relationship with Dr. Finch's daughter, Natalie, who is one year older than he, and together they break away from the madness of the Finch household as they make their separate ways in life. As a young teen, Burroughs accepts his homosexuality." - Wikipedia
Running with Scissors: Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors: Augusten Burroughs
So I finished readying "Running with Scissors" as a follow-up to "A Wolf at the Table" which I read several weeks back. I was not a big fan of this book at all. It was grossly disgusting and disturbing. While the back of the book has a handful of reviews from other periodicals that tote this as "hilarious", "funny as it is twisted", "mordantly funny", I did not find anything remotely funny about this at all. With the short recap of where everyone is now at the end of the book, I would have expected the adults to be in prison on child abuse charges at a minimum but I guess, everyone is just "normal" and continues to live an average life. In my opinion, Augusten Burroughs is either embellishing the facts of his teenage years to make a story that would seem to be like no other life out there, or has to be insanely wacko.

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