5/10/2023 0 Comments Dry augusten burroughs audiobook![]() This is the worst narration of any of the hundreds of audiobooks I have listened to, by quite some margin-distractingly slow and stacatto, the delivery here makes you wonder if Burroughs hasn't had a stroke. Burroughs himself reads this book, doing so with a serious poet's stilted cadence that turns the entire audiobook into a completely unlistenable mess. But the worst thing about this book is the narration. Even the best, most memorable images-Burroughs biting off the face of a wax Santa, Burroughs waking up in a hotel room with a jolly old French Santa-get lost in a thicket of dull and pointless prose. 'You Better Not Cry' is full of ponderous, meandering pieces that never really evolve into the gems that some of them really ought to become. ![]() I admire that he has made a mostly original name for himself in a genre that is dominated by David Sedaris, and I admire even more that he has the guts to put out a Christmas book when Sedaris's own holiday writing is so widely praised. ![]()
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