Cut

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Summary: Far too sterile to represent reality.
Review: As much credit as I give to anyone willing to address the issue of self-injury in their work, Cut does not come close to conevying the tumultuous thoughts and feelings that lead one to harm themselves. It might be enough to trigger someone who cuts, but will hardly educate those who don't.

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Summary: Willy's Review for "Cut"
Review: Cut was a reall good book. It is about a girl, Callie, who cuts herself. She is at a medical treatment facility called Sea Pines, which everyone there calls Sick Minds. All the other girls there have problems of their own.
There is nothing sharp at Sea Pines. Callie will use anything she can get her hands on, from pie plates to the edge of a table to cut herself. She has to go to a phychiatrist almost everyday. Since she went to Sea Pines, she han't talked to anyone.
Patricia McCormick did a really good job on Cut. It was a very good first novel. The way she made Callie think see and hear everything around her made the story even better. All in all it was a really good book.

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Summary: The title is decieving...
Review: This book is supposed to be about cutting, but it's really more about a psychiatric hospital. As someone who was once a cutter, it really doesn't address the issue of cutting as well as it seemed it should have. I was under the impression that it was a novel for adults on the issue of cutting, but it was written more on the level of a young adult and didn't really dive much into self-injury as an issue. It made cutting seem as though it was something you can turn on and off, just as Callie's talking was something she had the control to turn on and off. Unfortunately, cutting is nothing like that. Yes, McCormick does touch on the emotions associated with the act of self-injury, but she doesn't make known the need for those feelings, or the cycle of emotions that a cutter goes through before, during and after commiting the act. It was an easy read - I read it in one sitting, but not what I had expected.

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Summary: CUT by Jimmy German
Review: I think cut is a boring book. I really didn't like it. There were a lot of dry spots, definitely more bad parts than good parts. I thought I would like it when we started reading it, because I'm into violent books like this, but i wasn't feeling it. It is basically about a girl named Callie who cuts herself for the high of it. She is sent to Sea Pines, a "loony bin", but her and her friends call it Sick Minds. There are lots of girls there with there own problems. Some have a substance abuse problem which means they do drugs. Some have eating disorder which means they are anorexic. Others are like Callie and have behavioral issues which means they are psychos (as Callie would put it) meaning they cut themselves. There are three levels at Sick Minds; level ones' need escorts to go any where and every where. Level twos' can go wherever they want and can escort people, but anorexic twos' need to be escorted by three's. Level threes' are the same as level twos' except level threes' are at the last stage there and are going to graduate soon. When Callie first gets there she doesn't talk in group or in counseling or at all, but she can't stay quiet for long'
I give this book one star and don't ever want anything to do with it again.

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Summary: Cut Your Way Into Cut
Review: Callie needs to get away. She needs to find a way to get away from her life and all the complications included in the package. Callie steadily finds that she can get her much wanted release by cutting herself. She never cuts herself too severely, but enough to get away from everything, to feel the release, to het the high. But then she gets sent to Sea Pines, a facility for girls who have disorders.
Callie then goes queit. She doesn't talk, but she steakily learns that everyone at Sea Pines, nick-named Sick Minds, are human too. They are much like her, yet very different. Eventually Callie learns that she wants to get better.
I really enjoyed Cut. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be, but it was still pretty good. It sounded as though Patricia McCormick put a lot of effort into this book. You almost feel as if Callie is real and you are her shrink, listening to her thought as they run through her mind.
Partricia McCormick talents with a pen ahow a swill as a knight's skill with a sword. I admire her not only for her writing ability, but also because of her ability to become so dedicated to do so much research on one outstanding book. Patricia McCormick is truly a writer unlike any other.

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Summary: "CUt"
Review: This was a great book about a girl named Callie who cuts herself. Now Callie is in a mental facility, or a looney bin as some people call it. Sea Pines, or Sick Minds as the people who attend it call it. There are other people there who need help, her age and older. There are people there with drug abuse problems, and food issues. But, how can Callie get any help, when she won't even talk? Callie has had problems at home, is that why she is cutting herself? Find out bye reading this wonderful novel by Patricia McCormick. This is one of the best books I have ever read, and i would definatly give it *****!

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Summary: Cut Review
Review: Cut is a thrilling book that reveals the dark truth about why girls cut themselves. It shows the reality of hard it is to stop and how a normal teenage girl can just pick up a knife one day to relieve the stress of everything. This is one of those books that takes you in to a reality that you may have not known before, and shows you what life is really like when you have too many responsibilities and can't be a normal teenager.
The book is about a girl named Callie that cuts herself and ends up at Sea Pines mental facility. She doesn't talk to anyone, not even her own family, the girls at Sea Pines, or her therapist. She passes the time by counting cars, looking at cracks in the ceiling, and watching what everyone else does. Her therapist tries to talk to her, but Callie just spaces out and doesn't listen. Callie tries to hold everything in, like her brothers asthma and why she thinks its her fault, her mother and brother always resting, and her dad never being home. She soon has to make a decision of whether to start talking or leave Sea Pines and not get any further help. Can she keep holding everything in, or is she going to finally talk and make an effort to get better? Read this amazing, chilling, heart felt book and see a girl on her way to recovery from cutting herself.

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Summary: Cut
Review: The book Cut by Patricia MaCommick is a great book in my opinion. In the beginning I didnt really like understand why someone would cut themselves just to make themselves feel good. I would think it would hurt but i guess for some people it makes them feel good. But in the middle i understood why she cuts herself. Things look hopeless for her at the beginning but then it starts to show that she wants to get better. I didnt really like how it ended by how her dad just dropped her off back at Sick Minds and then it ended. I would recommend it if you dont get grossed out of blood and stuff. I am sure you will like it. So go to your local library or book store and buy your copy today!

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Summary: Cut Review
Review: Cut. It wasn't my favorite book in the world but yet I didn't hate it either. This book seems realistic. If I was to rate this book on a scale of 1 to 5, I would give it a 3. I would give that because I have read some better books but yet it wasn't the worst book that I have read. I mean I can't really relate to this because I have never done anything like Callie has. Neither do I know of anyone who has done any of these things. This book is about a girl named Callie who cuts herself. She never cuts herself deep enough to kill herself. She only cuts herself to relax herself, so that she can feel the high or rush. Callie is now in an institute for girls that have problems. Some of the types of girls that go to this institute are people with eating disorders. The name of the institute is Sea Pines. Callie calls this place Sick Minds.

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Summary: Callie the Cutter
Review: When I first started reading the novel Cut by Particia McCormick, I thought it was really depressing and not very interesting. As soon as I saw the cover of the book, I didn't want to read it, and when I found out what the book was about, I wanted to read it even less. I didn't find it very interesting, and I felt it was targeted mostly towards teenage girls. But I kept reading it, mostly because the rest of my eighth grade class was reading it aloud. I ended up thinking it was more strange than depressing, but it wasn't so bad and I thought it was okay.
I could tell the author put a lot of time and effort into writing this book. She did a lot of research on finding out why people cut themselves or otherwise mutilate themselves. She also puts a lot of descriptive and sensory detail, so much so that I could actually see everything she was saying. If she dedicated that much time making that book, then she should deserve to get an average four stars customer review, but it didn't appeal to me as much as it did to others.
Overall, I think it's a good book for any teenager struggling with peer pressure, family issues, or other issues. I think it's very true and down to earth. The description is top-notch. I could imagine everything she was saying and doing, It sounds like she is amazingly bored and needs to find a way out of the mental institution that she lives at. I can't imagine being so bored that she counts the stripes on the wallpaper. I reccomend this book to any teenager struggling with issues.