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A devastating and absolutely necessary read.

Catch me squealing with glee when Augusten finally confesses his love to [insert spoiler here]

Forgot how safe and comfortable it feels to read Burroughs’ work, whatever that says about me and where I am in life nearly a decade after reading this for the first time.

“It was so much more painful to look at her than anyone had warned him it would be, and he wanted to do something terrible, like set himself on fire or drive his car into a tree. He always reflexively imagined ways to cause himself extreme injury when he was distressed. It seemed to soothe him briefly, the act of imagining a much worse and more totalizing pain than the one he really felt”

Less than 30 pages in, the Communist Manifesto is already mentioned/quietly slipped in.