Possible Side Effects (edit title)

• Rated 2 stars

“Suprisingly disappointing ... it seemed as though he was just retelling the same stories from his previous books. Burroughs is a great author - but this book needed new material ... ”

• Rated 3 stars

“This is one of a series of memoirs that Mr. Burroughs has written, chronicling his life growing up with a mentally ill mother and extremely dysfunctional family, his homosexuality, and his substance abuse and addiction.

In this book he's an adult and has a relatively stable life now, and the stories are decidedly more mature (and pleasantly funnier) than the earlier work of his that I have read. I do sometimes think that I'm reading essays by a little boy that wants a lot of attention, he has that type of style that tries to shock you a little bit, but this book was okay.”

• Rated 4 stars

“very funny”

• Rated 3 stars

“i enjoyed the book. i watched the movie Running With Scissors so had an idea of just how eff'ed up his life was. This guy has a level of weird psychosis that doesn't touch the maintream reading world often, and it's refreshing to read his candid musings and memories. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“LOL funny, I was reading this on a plane during a red-eye flight and I just know that I woke people up laughing.

Definately one of Burroughs better books.”

• Rated 4 stars

“I laughed out loud many times!”

• Rated 4 stars

“Hysterical! Knows how to express what we were all thinking when we were kids, but didn't know how to say. If you're into this type of humor, you may be into Dave Egger's A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Brilliantly hilarious and sometimes a wee bid poignant. A great read of the author's idiosyncrasies and strangeness.”