"Running with Scissors is hilarious, freaky-deaky,
berserk, controlled, transcendent, touching, affectionate,
vengeful, all-embracing. . . . It makes a good run at blowing every
other [memoir] out of the water."--Carolyn See, The Washington
Post
"[Running with Scissors] promotes visceral responses (of
laughter, wincing, retching) on nearly every page. . . . Funny and
rich with child''s-eye details of adults who have gone off the
rails."--The New York Times Book Review
"It is as funny as it is twisted."--GQ
"A hilarious and horrifying memoir."--Los Angeles
Times
"The anecdotes can be so flippant, and so insanely funny (quite
literally), that the effect is that of a William Burroughs
situation comedy."--The New York Times
"Burroughs defies the ''woe is me'' stigma of modern memoir with a
raucous recounting of his loony teenage years."--Entertainment
Weekly (grade: A)
"A memoir that is both horrifying and mordantly funny."--San
Francisco Chronicle
"Wickedly, ridiculously funny."--Boston Herald
"Reads like David Sedaris writing The Hotel New
Hampshire."--The Boston Globe
"Burroughs has memorialized his bizarre childhood, showing off
a dark wit that often rivals that of David Sedaris--while telling a
true story that would make even Sedaris cringe."--New
York
"Screamingly funny . . . In the end, the book celebrates
Burroughs''s resilient, upbeat spirit, which helps him surmount one
of the weirder childhoods on record."--Deirdre Donahue,
USA Today
"[Running with Scissors] will transport
you."--Vogue
"Irreverent, scurrilous, profane, licentious, horrific, and vile.
It''ll warp your mind, upset the neighbors, and lower your standing
in the community. In other words, it''s funny as
hell."--Elle (Nonfiction Book of the Year)
"Written with humor and clear affection for its oddball characters,
Running with Scissors is a story of shocking discovery and
unlikely survival."--The Onion
"Running with Scissors is Dave Peltzer with a whoopee
cushion attached . . . you''re just thankful to read a memoir
that''s genuinely memorable, not mawkish."--The Observer
(London)
"Running with Scissors is a story so strange it could
never be fiction . . . a huge critical and commercial success . . .
deftly written, smart, and funny."--GQ (UK)
"A lasting treasure a gorgeously written true-life story destined
to be cherished and quoted long after its last page is read . . .
bravely stands as a life-affirming survival guide for all the
misfits of the world."--The Tampa
Tribune
"It''s gross, it''s shocking and its humor is blacker than a
thousand midnights . . . But this hilarious, provocative, and oddly
touching book draws you into a bizarre world and keeps you rooting
for its unusual narrator to survive, thrive, and break
free."--The Hartford Courant
"Brutal, disturbing, and often wildly funny . . . a stirring
testament to a boy''s strength in an environment of unfathomable
heartache and dysfunction."--Star Tribune
"A surreal and entertaining trip through a young life most readers
will thank God wasn''t theirs . . . Burroughs never lets his
readers forget that stuck in the middle of all the madness is a
confused boy."--The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"Bound to please fans of dark humor . . . Burroughs''s account,
full of frightening and hilarious images, is an entertaining,
moving tale of an unconventional 1980s coming of age. It could be
the one book you remember reading this summer."--Fort
Worth Star-Telegram
"If you love Sedaris, you''ll fold over laughing with Running
with Scissors."--Genre
"Burroughs tempers the pathos with sharp, riotous humor . . .
Edgier, but reminiscent of Dave Eggers''s A Heartbreaking Work
of Staggering Genius, this is a survival story readers won''t
forget."--Booklist
"Beautifully written with a finely tuned sense of style and wit . .
. This memoir of a nightmarish youth is both compulsively
entertaining and tremendously provocative."--Publishers
Weekly
"A grotesque comic merger of John Waters and David
Sedaris."--Kirkus Reviews