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Summary: An amazing first hand look at eating disorders!
Review: I first picked up this book interested in the subject matter because I at one time was overly obsessed with my weight. I am a fifteen year old female, active in sports, dance, and in school. As an elementary school kid at St. Agnes, this one boy would constantly tease me about being "fat" even though everyone knew he did it because he had a little immature crush on me, I was hurt and wanted anything to not have my baby fat anymore. I would try not eating as much and I would often over excercise in hope that I would lose that baby chub, but I didn't lose it until I grew taller and stretched out. This book inforced to me that starving myself and doing all the un-natural things to my body such as overexercising or becoming bulimic would only hurt me in the long run. Throughout the book you just want to reach out your hand to her and help her through this tough time, it is a very harsh, yet real look at eating disorders. A very good book for all girls and boys going through this stage to read, it would enlighten them to realize what is worth the pain in life, and what isn't worth it.
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Summary: This was the most poweful book I have ever encountered.
Review: As a teenage female growing up at the end of the millenium, I found this book so awe inspiring. The strength that it must have taken Marya Hornbacher to write this is amazing. She is so honest with her reader and she wirtes the book without preaching or imposing upon the reader. If she could only know the way this book affected me. Everyone should read Wasted.
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Summary: Compelling; Importnt for ED'd women, our families & friends
Review: The best I've read in terms of a personal account. So completely, fabulously honest and real. A compelling read - couldn't put it down. In fact, I read it through twice before I COULD put it down. Marya Hornbacher, a truly gifted writer, uses her words expertly to relate her experience, her pain, her constant struggle - one that is shared by far too many other women in this country, myself included. She puts into words what many of us cannot. Because of the commonality between many of my experiences and feelings and those which Marya discussed in her book, I've brought the book into my own therapy as another resource to help my therapist gain a better understanding of the ED issues I'm dealing with. A important book for women with EDs and for our families and friends.
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Summary: painfully honest memoir , I related more than I wanted to...
Review: Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher is a must read for people involved in an eating disorder. I recommend it to those who are already going through the healing process...because it is a very eye opening, painful look at the practices, emotions, causes and remedies for the eating disorder. I highly recommend it to therapists, to understand what your patients may be going through,but just aren't able to put into words.
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Summary: A must read...
Review: The volume of reviews and 5-star ratings are clear testimonies that Marya's voice is shared by many. And that is what is most terrifying about this book. I have been in the grip of an eating disorder for almost 7 years, and was horrified by the parallels between Marya's life and my own. This is a book that could influence new personal choices based on that realization. Wasted is a vivid and unsettling look at reality, and is an important read for anyone struggling to understand what goes through the minds of people you love who haven't learned to love themselves.
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Summary: This book gave me the courage and desire to live
Review: Marya Hornbacher's book wasted, has actually changed my life. her harshly real words cut through me and poured salt on my wounds. Wasted is helping me get over a six year struggle with an eating disorder. The book is brilliantly written and not hokey like other eating disorder books can be. This book gave me a new attitude on life
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Summary: A how-to book for prospective anorectics and bulimics
Review: Absolutely do not allow any female under 20 to read this book. The author is not recovered nor does she pretend to be. You can almost hear her ask "do I look fat" when she gets a look at herself on the cover. This definitely makes eating disorders look like an attractive option to young women in search of some drama and attention. Sure the author has an eating disorder, but hey she's thin! She gets dates and great jobs! She also gets a heck of a lot of attention from her friends and naive,trusting and long-suffering parents. This reads like a pre-quel to Drinking, A Love Story.
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Summary: Haunting and heroic, Horbacher discovers strength to endure
Review: I would very much hope to meet this majestic young woman. I would tell her how upset and how moved I was after reading "Wasted." I would tell her that aside from my studies of the Holocaust, I have not been as emotionally and viscerally upset by descriptions of torment, internally and externally imposed. I would tell her that while reading her book, I would bend my head in shame, that I shouldn't have been allowed to read this type of hurt. I would beg her to let me know how she became this wise, this perceptive at such a young age. I would ask to hug her, too, to let her know that her words will bring horror and comfort to those afflicted with bulemia and anorexia.This is an utterly remarkable memoir, destined to become a staple in reading groups and campuses for years to come.
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Summary: I felt Marya's pain and frustration down to my soul.
Review: Wasted is a chilling, dark, cold and powerful book to digest. It was as painful as it was enjoyable for me to read. It was the first book that I have read on Anorexia and Bulimia in which I totally could relate to the author. I feel like I know Marya. The one thing I know for sure is that we have known a similiar hell and will live with remnants of that hell forever. The contents of this book are real and the delivery is ingeniouse. You cannot help but feel her pain.
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Summary: This book is phenomenal. Truly an honest and vivid account.
Review: I've been battling my ED for 10 years now, and haven't read anything that even comes close to this realistic, terrifying and gripping novel. Marya Hornbacher writes with such honesty and emotion - I connected with so much of it personally. It was truly a scarey, intense read - alternately inspiring and saddening. But the truth is, I guess we will always be recovering (hence, no happy ending) if we get that lucky. I hope I do. This book gave me a realistic picture of what the outcome of my big mess of an eating disorder may turn out to be. I may continue to battle the same thoughts and behaviors forever, but, like Marya, maybe I can find some peace.
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