Overview from Barnes and Noble:
If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This is How.
My thoughts:
I've never read or listened to a Burroughs book before, but in my mind he was similar to David Sedaris and I remember watching the movie for Running with Scissors. I listened to this audio book last week. His take on why people are having the problems they have in their lives and how to overcome them is interesting and refreshing. We could all use more reminders to live in the present, to not allow ourselves to be influenced so greatly by the past and to realize if we truly want to change, we can and will. It is easy to blame the past or parents or weight or age for why we can't do something, but for many things we have the power ourselves if we choose to exert it and use it.
Our local library is having a summer reading program for children and adults and for adults they have an added incentive. There is a book full of brown paper wrapped books, with only the barcodes showing and a brief summary of the book glued to the front. Last week I selected one book and took it home, when I unwrapped it this was the book. Since I had just listened to it I did not read it again, but I wonder if that is a sign that I read too much!
I've never read or listened to a Burroughs book before, but in my mind he was similar to David Sedaris and I remember watching the movie for Running with Scissors. I listened to this audio book last week. His take on why people are having the problems they have in their lives and how to overcome them is interesting and refreshing. We could all use more reminders to live in the present, to not allow ourselves to be influenced so greatly by the past and to realize if we truly want to change, we can and will. It is easy to blame the past or parents or weight or age for why we can't do something, but for many things we have the power ourselves if we choose to exert it and use it.
Our local library is having a summer reading program for children and adults and for adults they have an added incentive. There is a book full of brown paper wrapped books, with only the barcodes showing and a brief summary of the book glued to the front. Last week I selected one book and took it home, when I unwrapped it this was the book. Since I had just listened to it I did not read it again, but I wonder if that is a sign that I read too much!
Product Details
- ISBN-13: 9780594497011
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publication date: 5/8/2012
- Pages: 240
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