Cut

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Summary: Cut is A Great Book For Anyone
Review: I really liked the book Cut,. The book Cut would sometimes you would just on the edge of your. I liked how you wouldn't know what would happen next. It is about a young teenage girl who got caught in her whole life and couldn't take it no more and she tried to kill herself. She was sent to mental institution were there she would have to face people with what she did. What I dislike about the book was when you thought she was going to talk, she did'n. I say a movie ones about a girl that had to go to a mental institution, but I haven't read a book like Cut.

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Summary: A must read for all!
Review: Cut is a great book about Callie, a 15 year old girl who isn't talking to anybody. Not even her therapist at Sea Pines, which is a "residential treatment facility" where her parents sent her after discovering that she mysteriously cuts herself. Callie eventually finds her voice and confides in her therapist.She also starts talking to the other girls at Sea Pines who have issues of their own such as anorexia, bulimia, eating too much, and also cutting theirselves like Callie. As her treatment with her therapist progresses, the story to why she cuts herself starts starts to unfold. What happens next? I don't know. You'll have to read the read the book to find out.
The reason I like this book is because it keeps you wanting to read more. In the beginning it's not the best and kind of hard to understand, but once you get further into the book you never want to put it down. Each page you turn just keeps getting more exciting than the previous page. I hope you take the time to enjoy this book as much as I have.

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Summary: Deep, Absorbing
Review: Callie is inflicted with guilt,blaming herself for her brother's illness.She cuts herself with sharp objects and refuses to speak.Because of these problems she is placed in a mental health facility and slowly makes friends with the other troubled teens inside.Cut shows just how much can go wrong when we don't voice our problems,and believe the lies inside our minds,which can lead to darkness,devastation,self-destruction.I would also like to say this:Has anyone ever wondered why so many kids are developing mental health problems,like Callie??Could it be that we live in a cynical world that offers little hope or faith?Adults should realize how important it is to share positive attitudes.

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Summary: please do not dismiss Callie's pain
Review: I am in my early 20's, and like Callie, I am a cutter. Also like Callie, my home life was relatively stable, though I experienced some problems, and especially feelings, eerily similar to hers. I turned to dealing with them in the same way. This book brought back my adolescence in an intense, almost overwhelming flood. However, unlike Callie I never got help because my attempt to tell the adults in my life about my feelings (never mind the cutting) were trivialized with responses like, "Oh, it's just teen angst. I felt like that when I was a kid". I was also never lucky enough to get caught. It was not until I was 21 that I was taken seriously, and was finally diagnosed with severe anxiety and moderate depression, and was started on medication and therapy.
Brushing this book off as a "bad influence that might give kids ideas" infuriates me. This is the type of thinking that prevents kids from being educated about suicide prevention. If I had had a book like this when I was younger, I might have pushed harder to get help. Sometimes teens, even those with relatively "stable" home lives might be in intense pain, and it is too often brushed off by the adults around them. Callie provides a public voice to the pain that these teens may not be able to voice on their own.

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Summary: whoops!
Review: this book is irratting. especaily the part where she cutts her self with a pie pane. she thinks 'its never hurt before' i dont think a 'real' cutter would think that. it allways huts. its reatching out and harnessing that pain. this seams like what would happen if i tried top wrihgt about a cocain addiction. most people wuld belive it but people who have expirianced the real thing would be quite angry at the little fuzzy details.

her issues are much to clear. the book would be better if they were fuzzed up a bit. maybe take out her brother compleatly. she seams like a good girl. happy and creative.

and allso the floor doesnt feel like it's tipping when you cut.

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Summary: Not quite there...
Review: I was quite excited to read this book after hearing my friends' rave reviews. I expected a deep, thoughtful story, one that would help me make sense of my own self injury. This was not what i got. The story was thin, characters were not realistic, but what got me most was the author's description of Callie's cutting. "A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up, and my body spiraled away... i felt awesome"(11) I've never experienced anything like this, except for the feeling of release. The book focused most on her stay at Sea Pines, rather than on her self injury, so i'm not sure that 'Cut' was the best title choice. I felt robbed of my time and energy after reading this book, and I pity the author who, "spent three years researching and writing 'Cut'." One plus of the story was that I could really feel for Callie's younger brother, Sam. He was only a child and did not understand what was going on with his sister, but was always kind to her. The book isn't horrible, but it was written to childishly for those whom the theme is appropriate for.

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Summary: An Accurate Portrayal, May Oversimplify Therapeutic Process
Review: As a Master's level therapist working with adolescent girls in a residential treatment setting, I was interested in finding a book that might help my clients who use cutting as an "emotional release". This book does very well in that vein, however, without processing with an adult, I could see that this book may lead some adolescents to believe that cutting is an issue that can be "cured" quickly, and that "talk therapy" is the ONLY way of resolving similar issues.
"Cut" does a good job of discussing the long process of building a rapport with a therapist or other professional. The book does an excellent job of illustrating that one needs to be frank with her thoughts and feelings, particularly with herself, in order to begin to resolve some of her underlying issues. I enjoyed the author's portrayal of the residential facility, particularly how well she portrayed the fact that children quickly pick up on who is or is not committed to their job and who is easy to manipulate. IN SUMMARY: An easy to read book that flows well; Highly Recommended for the teen reader who struggles with identifying and expressing her feelings as long as an adult discusses with her that the book illustrates the BEGINNING of the therapuetic process for Callie, rather than a "quick cure".

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Summary: The Best Book So Far...
Review: I was searching for a good soul-searching book. Not exactly what I found but that doesn't mean Cut isn't a good book. I have read many books about teenage girls cutting themselves, but this book is deeper than skin. It's about the world going on around her, and not her. I have cut myself twice, I got help and now I realize how poorly written many books about "cutting" are. But this one isn't the "average-joe" book. Read it and enjoy!

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Summary: Not Enough Feeling
Review: This book is a deppressing, but intresting quick read. Cut tells the story of a girl, Callie, who is at a treatment facility Sea Pines (or Sick Minds as the teens call it) because of cutting herself. This book tackles serious, and important issues evident in teens today, but it was a dissapointment. The book did not get into Callie's real feelings, so it came across very superficial. It seemed as though it was being written by parents warning there kids of what could happen to them. I was hoping to gain a deeper understanding from this book, as I know of too many teens who inflict themselves with injury. I would reccomend this book to high school age and up, as it presents serious issues in very graphic ways. This book maneged to keep me wanting more, even though it lacked Callie's deep thoughts. In cocnclusion, this is okay, but not as insigtful as I had hoped.

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Summary: Cut by Patricia McCormick
Review: In the short novel "Cut," the author, Patricia McCormick focuses on fifteen year old Callie. Callie, having dealt with many emotional problems decides to engage in self-injury. In the beginning of the book, Patricia McCormick gives one description of Callie's conditions, "Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, and never enough to die, just enough to feel the pain." After Callie's habits are discovered by a school nurse, Callie's parents then decide to send her to a residential teenage treatment facility known as Sea Pines. Or as many of the patients had nicknamed it "Sick Minds." When Callie first enters Sea Pines she remains to be very mute. She seems to be fearful of what the other patients might think of her, always assuming that no will be able to understand the reasoning behind her self-infliction habits. It is because of this, Callie refuses to entrust any of her feeling. This story is written in First person narrative, giving us, the reader a sense of how it might feel to be in Callie's position. The problems Callie faces and her relationship with her family are all discussed throughout the book. As the book progresses Callie soon finds someone she will soon entrust her feelings to. This gives Callie a sense of hope, knowing that there is help for her and they're not trying to harm her, as she thought in the beginning of the novel.

I was mainly interested in this book only because one year ago one of my closest friends decided to engage herself in self-infliction. It wasn't that serious, but I was still very much watchful of her actions at the time. In fact I was very worried for her. Callie's conditions as compared to my friends is much more serious. But by reading this book it really gave me an idea of why someone might engage themselves into this type of action. It gives us a sense of what goes on in their minds. It's a bit frightening but at the same time opens your eyes to what's around you. In fact, this habit of self infliction is said to supposedly ease emotional stress, as Callie had said in the book. But we all know there are better ways to pursue ease and peacefulness of mind. Basically I saw this book at a real eye opener and it's good because for many people they might not even take such an action, such as self-injury into consideration. Most people will just pass it on as if it'll go away the next day. But what people don't know is that self infliction is much more serious than we actually realize. Cutting yourself once will most probably lead to more and more. Soon enough you'll be getting deeper and deeper, as Callie did in the novel. Overall I think this book was really good. I honestly enjoyed reading it.