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Summary: every teenage gril should have to read this book
Review: i read this book in about 3 days i couldn't put down. it really hit home for me when i relized that i had an eating disorder. a lot of my friends read it and they loved i think that when a bunch of 14 year old girls all fall in love with a book and start quoating it that it must have been a great book. i don't think i will ever forget it i think it's right up with with go ask alice and the perks of being a wallflower.
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Summary: Wasted(a great book)!
Review: I think this book was great,it shows that even the most normal looking people can have an eating disorder,whether rich or poor,old or young.I really liked this book!It was very helpful to me.
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Summary: it hurts, but it is necessary to read this book
Review: this books hurts. I hope it will keep at least one girl or boy from diving into the hell that eating disorders are. thank you for this book, Marya, you gave a voice to all of us...
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Summary: telling it like it really is
Review: Marya Hornbacher does the most amazing thing, and puts into words, just what it is like to be totally engulfed by an eating disorder. She is not here to hold anyones hand or to justify herself, she just writes with brutal honesty and it's about time that someone has. Eating disorders are ugly and so hard to recover from, sometimes there is no happy ending. If you want to know the harsh, terrifying world of what it is like to live with an eating disorder, then this is the book. If you want a book that is neat and tidy, then don't bother. This book is real in every way. Thank you Marya, for giving voice to this disease.
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Summary: Format of Wasted
Review: I think that the format of this book should be in the form of AUDIO CD. I hope that one day that it will. It is nice that I don't have to focus my eyes to read such a good book, but I am tired of flipping the tapes, every time that i get to the end of one! Good Job Marya.
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Summary: This is a scary book
Review: Hornbacher really gets under your skin. I really was getting the feeling of what an eating disorder must be like. Normally I like to snack while I read, but I just couldn't do it reading this book. Food became weird while I was reading. She also writes about anoretics strange relationship with food, strange ways of eating, and counting bites and measuring food. And then all of the ways of throwing up, and binge eating. This book is really creepy. It's amazing how she was able to keep the bulimia covered for so long. There must have been people I have known who were doing the same thing. After reading the book, I can recognize things now. And I take the whole issue much more seriously than I did. I've found I've made some sort of connection with Hornbacher. I want to know how she's doing now, and I wish there was some way I could find out what she's up to and how she is. In short this book is scary and effective. I recommend it.
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Summary: this book will affect you
Review: I picked up this book in a store while browsing and after reading the first chapter I couldn't put it down. So many women - including those in my family, have huge issues with food, though not everyone takes it to the extreme of this author. After recently losing a lot of weight, in a healthy way, myself, I am happy though can now recognize that losing weight will not in itself make you a more popular, happy, successful etc.etc. person. Reading this book drove this point home too. I have passed it on to other friends who have 'food issues' and the general concensus is 'harrowing but fascinating'. The author goes into a lot of detail about her feelings, and even though she is a survivor, she doesn't dwell too much on her current life, which is a shame, because it would be nice to see her happy.
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Summary: Disappointing and unsatisfying
Review: The book was well written, but excessively detail-oriented and often repetitive. The author wrote about herself in a very detached way, as if seeing herself from the outside. She described her behavior and occasionally her words, but very seldom her feelings. She tends to define people by labels; very few people in her life have names, and none of them are given any depth. It seems as if others are objects to her, and also as if she herself is an object to herself. She makes instant judgments of others' thoughts and doesn't seem to consider that she might be wrong. (She frequently talks about how other women with eating disorders think and feel, but I wonder on what basis? Her own projections, I think.) I was left dissatisifed, with no explanation for her extremely self-destructive behavior that made sense. And I was left thinking that the book itself was another attempt to accomplish what the author had tried to accomplish with her eating disorder - an attention-getting device, a way to hurt her parents, and a way to show the world that she was the "best" anorectic that ever existed.
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Summary: Mesmerizing, terrifying, and important
Review: I picked this book up and couldn't put it down because Hornbacher is an extraordinary writer telling a fascinating story. But I'm giving it to friends because of its eye-opening education on some of the signs and symptoms of eating disorders. I'm a thirty-something woman and was shocked by how many I wouldn't have recognized. So many girls and young women are suffering, and so few get help. My thanks and admiration to Ms. Hornbacher for her brutually unselfish honesty.
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Summary: Triggering.. but Marya Hornbacher tells it the way it is
Review: Marya Hornbacher is a very down to earth person who shows no self pity for herself about her eating disorder. This book can be very triggering for those with eating disorders. She talks about EDs the way they are, a trip from hell.
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