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Dry augusten burroughs review6/22/2023 It's consoling that no matter how bad things seem on Christmas morning, you're probably not waking up in an emergency ward after having your stomach or in a hotel room with amnesia and a stranger dressed as Saint Nick. Fans of the first book may be surprised to find out that Burroughs actually wrote Dry first. Just exactly like all the motherfucking rest of them".Īdverts and TV shows may have conned us into thinking that if we're having a miserable Christmas we're the only ones, but You Better Not Cry will be a bit of relief for people who'd rather hide under a blanket between Halloween and new year. The narrator has grown up, but hasn’t lost his cynicism, dark humor or fallibility thank goodness. He gets his tree and someone to spend the holidays with but, inevitably, disaster strikes and it turns out to be "a lump of coal and reindeer-hit-by-car sandwiches Christmas. The story gets the closest to serious (but also to cliche) when Burroughs talks about finally falling in love and building a home. They might also be surprised that there are any anecdotes from Burroughs's life left to tell.Īlong with the X-rated Santa stories, the main thrust of the book is Burroughs's search for a proper Christmas, with a tree, lights and roast lunch and it's told in the sort of light-hearted style that makes a Christmas spent with tramps after a three-day bender sound like fun. Anyone who has read the rest of Burroughs's non-fiction output – the wildly popular Running With Scissors, about his chaotic, neglected childhood Dry, about his later alcohol and drug abuse and loss of a partner to HIV and the other three volumes of his memoirs – knows not to expect tales of festive cheer from this latest book.
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