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Summary: Entertaining and Absolutely True -- Great Read!
Review: Lori Gottlieb totally hits the spot. This book really puts you into the mind of an eating disordered person. It makes you have some concept of what goes on in a person suffering from an ED. As a person recovering from one, it was unbelievable how much I related to her story. The book is also light-hearted and entertaining. If you know someone with an ED, if you have one, or if you just want a good read-- pick this book up!
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Summary: NOT about true anorexia
Review: This book had nothing to do with real anorexia and everything to do with an ungrateful, arrogant spoiled brat trying to control the people around her. Disdainful to every adult because she is so morally superior, she 'decides' to become the thinnest girl yada yada yada. Women with true anorexia do not consciously decide to stop eating and to - miraculously - start again at will. There is a tendency in today's society to be proud to wear a badge that says VICTIM of the latest 'hot' troubles. It's the only thing we have to bind with anyone else anymore. Migraines, alcoholism, ADHD, anorexia - all on the buffet for lonely people looking for sympathy and attention to pick and choose from. I have seen woman verbally trying to outdo each other in how many troubles they've had: "I only ate two celery sticks a day". "Well I only had one - and cut it in half". "Well IIIIIIIII........". No one who has seriously overcome a disease wants to 'relate' to it after recovery. I feel sorry for people who 'related' to this book - the true anorexics left negative reviews. This is this author's obvious attempt to jump on the band wagon making a few bucks while the topic is in vogue. Shame on her to morph a mountain out of a very small ant hill. Poorly and obviously faked by an adult trying to sound like an 11 year old. And of course, we can't have a book these days without the gratuitious use of the 'f' word to ice the cake. This book was an insult to real anorexics and an insult to our intelligence and wallets.
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Summary: Incredible.
Review: When I read this book I found it hard to believe it was the words of a pre-teen because Gottleib was wise beyond her years. Stick Figure is excellent - funny, touching, logical, and just a plain good read.
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Summary: Excellent Book For Women and Men.
Review: I finished reading this book in less than 24 hours. As an anorexic in recovery I really appreciated the realness yet humor of this book. I love the fact that the book does not give you all the answers and the girl is not peachy keen in the end. The book ask a lot of questions but never answers them. Leaving the reader to answer them on his or her own. This book invites you into the naive world of an 11 year old girl suffering from what she calls a diet. I would recommend this to any parent of a young daughter suffering from either an eating disorder,low self esteem or on and off self doubt. Buy it for them. I also recommend it to any parent or older sibling who thinks that their eating habits or obsession with your image does not effect the minds of younger people around you. Especially young girls. A great read for any one!
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Summary: Fascinating and Disturbing
Review: What sets this book apart from others written on anorexia is that it is non-fiction and, more importantly, the speaker is only 11 years old. Truly disturbing is the world that the speaker grows up in, and the contradictions and double standards in society are made salient by her startlingly bright observations. An interesting and thought provoking read.
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Summary: Insightful book from a precocious inner child
Review: Reading this book, it is hard to imagine these are the words from Gottlieb's diary. She has insight and wisdom beyond her years. Her books takes the reader down a path of pain and abandonment, of a young girl seeking only her parent's love and approval. The reader feels as if he is right there along with Gottlieb, seeing how people around her judge her without understanding her. The explainations behind the eating-disordered thinking are impeccable. The reader easily can see why Gottlieb thought this way. My only criticism of this book, if there is one, is that Gottlieb seemed to end too abruptly. The transition from deathly ill to well again was unnaturally short. Gottlieb's work represents a wonderful statement on society and eating disorders. I highly recommend this book ... and could only hope all media executives would as well.
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Summary: We are all in this together
Review: What I found amazing in reading Stick Figure were the similarities. Anorexics and compulsive overeaters (like myself) have the same issues with food and body image. We weigh ourselves constantly, monitor everything we eat and drink, know the calorie, fat, and carb count of everything, and are overly influenced by the culture we live in. This is an insightful book on how we shape our identity and find our voice in a culture that demands perfection. Jean Renfro Anspaugh
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Summary: Well written
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. I wasn't going to read it at first,but now I am glad I did. This book is very well written,and at times you forget this girl is only 11 years old. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to read,even if you have never dealt with this issue. REALLY good book for those who have :-)
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Summary: A glimpse into the problems of an eating disorder
Review: I finished this book yesterday, and before that I had read "Wasted", by Marya Hornbacher. They are two very different books, but both of them give you a glimpse into the world of the eating disordered mind. In "Wasted", Ms. Hornbacher seems to be much more troubled than Ms. Gottlieb does in "Stick Figure". It seemed to me that Lori Gottlieb really needed someone to talk to. Someone who she could relate to. One day she was ready to kill herself, and that same evening, one of the nurses at the hospital sat down and really talked to her, listened to her, and gave her some affection and caring. The next day, Lori ate half a sandwich, and apparantly was on the road to recovery soon after. Ms. Hornbacher's journey was much deeper, and it seems she still struggles with issues of self and food. The one thing that I got from both books, that I believe was what the authors were trying to convey, was that our whole society is messed up about food. When Lori was dieting, she kept talking about how no adult women she knew ate, so why did she have to? Being a woman in today's culture, I certainly identify with the comments that they both made about body image, diet, and our cultural obsession with thinness. Being the mother of a young daughter, I do not want to pass any of this on to my daughter. I think the only way to not do that is to get over these issues myself, and I think that seeing how the mothers in these books behaved, how they dieted all of the time and gave their daughters such bad messages, has shown me that the way to give my daughter a good role model is to practice what I preach and eat healthily. Also to cut myself a little slack if I don't look like a supermodel. This has been a rambling review, to be sure, but I would like to reccomend this book to any woman who wants to see how easy it can be for someone to flirt with a very dangerous eating disorder, and how easily such a flirtation can consume a person's life.
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Summary: Simply Put...
Review: This is an excellent read. It is humorous, sad, and the mother is really irratating. I recommend this to anyone who has had or wonder what goes through someones mind that has an eating disorder. It was an amazing experience.
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