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You Better Not Cry

Stories for Christmas

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You Better Not Cry

By: Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
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About this listen

 You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot stuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself?

Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection he recounts Christmases past and present - as only he could. With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.

©2009 Island Road, LLC. (P)2009 Macmillan Audio. Art & Literature Authors Winter Christmas Funny

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Critic reviews

"Burroughs is a natural storyteller... as brilliantly witty, waspish and self-deprecating as ever." ( Daily Mail)
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I always prefer it when authors, especially my favourites, read their own works, so I was surprised at how badly this was read. There's no natural flow, which is sad, because the stories are genuinely entertaining and the author's voice is pleasant. It was as if the entire book was broken down into haiku form and then read as such.

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So I love this author and have all his books. However this was such a disappointment. What is going on with his reading of this?. His syntax is all over the place and his phrasing of his own words make this disjointed and hard to follow. There are some good stories in this book but his reading makes it difficult to follow. I have assumed he was high whilst reading. I might be wrong but I'd love an explanation as to why he felt the need to speak so affectedly. I'm just grateful that this wasn't the first audio book I listened to or I would never have listened to another one and missed out.

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