Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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Summary: This book lets you think about life
Review: This book was okay in some ways.It lets you think about how life can be.In her way,life was pretty bad.It lets you think about the eating disorders.If you have an eating disorder,it is pretty hard to get of of it.I really felt her feelings sometimes. she had a hard time.I think she did a good job with writing this book;she tells everything about her life also a lot of things which she tells double.That is maybe why I didn't like this book in some ways.I understand that she has to tell everything more then one's about her life, to make sure that we understand her feelings about anorexia and bulimia.I really think that she did a good job writing,because a lot of people don't want to share their problems with people.At the end of the book is she in a very bad condition.I was kind of wondering what happened after all this. It was hard for me to understand everything,because I had to read everything very slow.That is why it took me very long to finish the book.All in all this book lets you think about life.It was pretty good.

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Summary: Absolutely Amazing, Informative, Learning Experience for All
Review: It's hard to explain how much the book "wasted" ment to me. I suffered from both anorexia and bulimia for four years of my life. "Wasted" made me feel like someone for once in my life actually knew how it feels to suffer from such diseases.It has made my recovery so much easier knowing that their are others out there who have taken the same journey I have. Even for those people who have never experienced what it's like to have an eating disorder, this book is both interesting and VERY informative. I could not put it down.

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Summary: Review of Wasted
Review: This book was pretty good. It told a great deal about the disease, and I learned a lot about what happens. I think that she could've shortened this book more so that it wouldn't have been so boring. She kind of repeated herself an awful lot, and every aspect of her life was just a little bit too drawn out. A lot of the same things happened in her life and she wrote too much about all of them. It was all pretty much the same everytime. Other than that I thought this book was a great learning experience and helped to tell a lot of what happens to your body, and the emotions you go through.

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Summary: This book made me feel understood.
Review: Once I had started reading this book, I could not stop. This was the first time ever that I felt understood. Ms Hornbacher has gone to simular things as I have, and she made me feel less lonely by putting into words what I kept for myself for so long. I thought being understood would make me feel as though something had been stolen from me. Fortunately, there are enough differences between her and me not to make me feel that way. A big thank you to Ms Hornbacher!

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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This book is wonderful. I really feel like the author is trying to get through to people. You get a sense that she has a stubborn attitude, and is very strong, but at the same time so weak. No where in this book is she striving towards attention, but rather to tell the hell that she went threw, when it was suposto be the happiest times in a young womans life. You will not be able to put this book down. A big thanks goes out to the author for helping so many people with your book.

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Summary: A wonderfully written educational book
Review: This was the best book I have ever read- I didn;t know anyone with an eating disorder (and have not had one myslef) so it was reccomended to me by a friend and I thought it would be worth while to read- so I did and it was AMAZING...

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Summary: Hauntingly Familiar, Written by an Extraordinary Woman
Review: As heart-wrenching as reading this book was, I savored every word and took my time to let it soak in. I am the same age as Marya, and grew up in a similar environment. All the manic thoughts that raced through her head as a child, as a pre-teen, as an adolescent, and as a young adult; were the same things I went through. I thought I was the only one in the world who felt (and thought) like this. I cried; I laughed; I got goosebumps. A few times I had to put the book down and just cry because her words were so HAUNTINGLY FAMILIAR! She so wonderfully put into words the things I couldn't understand at the time. Now I understand. I greatly admire her courage, her intellect, and her strength for shinning a bright light into the darkness that so many women lived in (or still live in).

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Summary: painfully honest and frightening
Review: The seriousness of the subject matter and the author's intensity with which she expresses herself is sometimes overwhelming. I felt like skipping some of her hospital antics and experiences to find the "happily ever after" ending. It's amazing she is so articulate, introspective and knowledgeable. Thankfully she has written about her illness in a way that might actually scare others on the same path.

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Summary: this book thinned my vision
Review: marya's road to recovery is captivating and eye opening. even though my waist is still 29", after reading this book, i actually SEE it as 29", because i'm too afraid, that if i don't look at it realistically, i will keep throwing up and starving myself, and end up dying young. her story holds nothing back, and describes feelings i though were undescribable. if you think you need help, or KNOW you do, don't wait for someone else to help you, help yourself and read this amazing biography.

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Summary: Rather a memoir of deception, sex,drugs,and an ed........
Review: By reading this book, I began to wonder if others not affected by eating disorders who read this book, will get the wrong idea about "us." I am bulimic. My issues and the majority of people that I have found have nothing to do with living a life of drugs, sex, and deception. Though I suffer with this illness, I will not be bound to menal institutes all my life. I will graduate and I will succeed. I am offended that this book was only titled what it was, where it should have included other issues. This book portrays an image of "us" that is very distorted.