Running With Scissors Book Report
Running and Crazy Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs in my opinion is one of the craziest books I have ever read. The events the take place in this man’s life are almost unimaginable, from living with a doctor to having a 33 year old boyfriend his life is definitely one to read about. Honestly it’s hard to tell if all of these events truly occurred or not. The book follows a boy named Augusten who lives with his parents; his mother reads poetry and wants to have her work published in the New York Times. While his dad works as a professor at the University of Massachusetts and has a skin disease as well as being an alcoholic. After his parents’ divorce his mother goes to see a man named Dr. Finch who is a psychiatrist and helps
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Finch has some interesting views on people and believed that people should not hold anger in but fight it out. Agnes, Dr. Finch’s wife, is angry at him for having three other mistresses. But Dr. Finch thins it’s funny when she’s mad and calls others to see her hysteria, and she soon sees the problem being funny as well. Then Augusten talks about his own sexual encounters with his 33 year old boyfriend while he is only 13. Along with this craziness Dr. Finch fakes a suicide attempt for Augusten to get him out of school, he spends two weeks at a mental ward before being released and school free. Another crazy event is when Natalie, another daughter of Dr. Finch, and Augusten decide to knock out the ceiling and they do punch a hole in the roof an end up putting at window on it as a skylight. The window doesn’t fit and the next day snow comes straight through. Dr. Finch later believe that God is speaking to him through his poop, so he orders Hope to remove his poop from thr toilet and let it sit in the sun so it can dry and tell him what to do. But it shortly ends when Dr. Finch becomes constipated. Augusten’s relationship continues when Neil pledges himself to Augusten saying he’ll do whatever he wants. His mom ends the affair with Fern and picks up a new woman named Dorothy who is a patient of Dr.
Finch has some interesting views on people and believed that people should not hold anger in but fight it out. Agnes, Dr. Finch’s wife, is angry at him for having three other mistresses. But Dr. Finch thins it’s funny when she’s mad and calls others to see her hysteria, and she soon sees the problem being funny as well. Then Augusten talks about his own sexual encounters with his 33 year old boyfriend while he is only 13. Along with this craziness Dr. Finch fakes a suicide attempt for Augusten to get him out of school, he spends two weeks at a mental ward before being released and school free. Another crazy event is when Natalie, another daughter of Dr. Finch, and Augusten decide to knock out the ceiling and they do punch a hole in the roof an end up putting at window on it as a skylight. The window doesn’t fit and the next day snow comes straight through. Dr. Finch later believe that God is speaking to him through his poop, so he orders Hope to remove his poop from thr toilet and let it sit in the sun so it can dry and tell him what to do. But it shortly ends when Dr. Finch becomes constipated. Augusten’s relationship continues when Neil pledges himself to Augusten saying he’ll do whatever he wants. His mom ends the affair with Fern and picks up a new woman named Dorothy who is a patient of Dr.