Book Review.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, @ 8:02 PM
This might seem unexpected and out of the blue, but I am going to conduct a book review. Which will probably numb your brain once you've finished reading, or maybe even have killed you. But the novel is, A WOLF AT THE TABLE, by Augusten Burroughs and it was a brilliant book, obviously, enough to get me to write a review.
This incredible memoir is a recount of the author's terrible childhood living with a immensely dysfunctional family. At times the book is mentally disturbing, but not in a conventional horror/gory genre. Instead, the author's gritty and honest tale of his psychotic and emotionally abusive father, is what is most frightening. The young boy's plead for his father's affection is not a childish, or even a heartfelt story, because his circumstances are so different from a "normal" family. A WOLF AT THE TABLE really opens your eyes to the cruel and often shrouded lives of mentally insane people, untreated, inflicting the people around them. It is intense all throughout the story, never letting your attention drift away. I don't want to spoil the novel, but that is the basis of the book and trust me, it will not disappoint. Although, your decision will ultimately depend on your own genre preferences. If this book were fictional, I would label it under suspense/realistic fiction (obviously). But don't only read my opinion. Here's a review from USA TODAY:
LINK. At only 242 pages, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and finished it in 3 nights, which is a very short time, considering I always abandon most of my books, or take years to finish reading them. Ok DONE. Thanks for reading, that is if you even are, which you probably aren't. That's so funny.
