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Summary: Very honest look at eating disorders
Review: This book is amazing! I strongly recommend it to anyone trying to understand or deal with an eating disorder. It sugar-coats nothing and gives an honest account of Marya Hornbacher growing up a very self-concious. Extemely well written without forgetting to portray the emotional and physcial toll an eating disorder takes on a person.
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Summary: Wasted is Right
Review: Yes, Ms Hornbacher is talented, but she is absolutely no better at the conclusion the book than she was when she began. This is a great step-by-step guide for how to destroy your life using an eating disorder, and it doesn't offer the alternative of getting over yourself and working hard in recovery.
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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: This is the best book i've ever read!! i've been going through an eating disorder recovery for six mounths and this out of all books is the best and most chilling to read. Its strange how i could relate to it so much...maybe that's why it was so great for me. Any one who wants to get into a mind of a disorder or is recovering from ana or mia then this bood will enlighten you!!! :)
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Summary: Intimate and Beautiful
Review: The honesty of this book had a profound affect on me the first time I read it. Its something everyone should experience, Not for her downward spiral necessarily, but for her ability to take us on her journey in such a touching way.
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Summary: The best on ED's I've been fortunate enough to read
Review: Marya Hornbacher leaves nothing to be desired with this amazingly honest memoir. Having both Anorexia and Bulimia myself, this was a wonderfully comforting companion to have in the darkest times. I don't know where I would have been without it. I've now read this book three times and I feel more and more hopeful every time I read it. I also recommend this book to every family member and friend of someone with an ED. It offers understanding and acceptance to anyone who reads it. She is so honest and forthright. Don't pass it up.
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Summary: Moving
Review: Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher, is a memoir about a girl's life long struggle with anorexia and bulimia. The book starts out when Marya was young and insecure and how her insecurities grew into a constant want to be thin, which made her bulimic. The book goes on through her life as she grows up and enters a dangerous world of sex, drugs, alcohol and food. As she grows up she becomes hospitalized multiple times and institutionalized once. In fact she doesn't even realize that she has a problem and needs to stop until she reaches such a dangerously low weight that the doctors are shocked she survives.The book is a must for any teenage girl who has to deal with the want for being thin and perfect. Marya's writing is honest and thoughtful and not filled with a scrap of self pity. She only tells the truth and she tells her story beautifully and with amazing strength. I hope that Marya one day decides to write a fiction book so I can see more of her work. She's a very talented writer. I recommend it to any teenage girl or older.
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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: This book is amazing! I first bought it to help understand a roommates disorder and it blew me away. It was as if I was reading her personal story. I have read it several times and recommended it to others, including other girls fighting the disease. I couldn't put it down and it helped me understand not only the disease but what is going on in the mind of someone with an eating disorder. I highly recommend this book to anyone with the disease or to anyone who knows someone with an eating disorder.
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Summary: One of those my-head-is-on-fire books
Review: I imperiled my graduate school applications to read this book. I also whimpered and screamed at it on occasion. It's a perfectly unvarnished account of the hell -- mind you, a comforting and emotionally nurturing hell -- that the author put herself through with years of eating disorders and their primary and secondary emotional trauma. Some of her ametur psychology is dubious, at best, but her intuitive understanding of her experiences is piercing. I'm not sure who should read this book. It's not going to effect miraculous reversals in people with existing eating disorders, yet its deep-down-the-rabbit-hole story may not make much sense to outsiders. On the bright side, the "inside" category encompasses not just ED sufferers, but also therapists, physicians, psychologists, and anyone who's ever worked in a freshman women's dormitory. The greatest triumph of this book is that it allows us to understand how rank, moribund insanity seemed like a _perfectly good idea_ at the time.
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Summary: the best yet
Review: Of all the eating disordered books I've read, this is the best. It tells all the thoughts going through an eating disordered person's life, whether we (I'm anorexic) admit it or not. Every single word she shared was true. This book will help people uderstand what goes on in the mind of an eating disordered person. No matter if you are a family member, a friend, an anti-pro ana, or a pro-ana like me...this book open's your eyes to what's really going on in our heads. I wish I could have been brave enough to say it myself. This book really inspires me to write one of my own or try to get a movie made of my own trials and tribulations in the world of disordered eating. Sincerely,a 7 yr. anorexic/bulimic...crystal
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Summary: Enter the mind of an anorexic teen
Review: I, myself am not anorexic or Bulimic but I enjoy reading books about people who have life threatening problems. Marya Hornbacher so vividly lays out her life for everyone to read. She easily helps many understand complex thoughts that she has many times pondered. I'm 15 and enjoyed reading this book very much so and I think "Wasted" could be a good read for almost anyone. Go get it!
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