Girl, Interrupted

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Summary: strange
Review: this work jumps around a lot, and might be difficult to chronologically follow. Bottom line, a great description of two years in the loony bin. A classic, female, 18, anywhere USA, story. Everyone who reads this book is bound to feel a little bit of what Kaysen felt during those tumultuous years. finally, someone wrote what everyone in that situation was thinking, but didn't have the courage to say out loud. Brava, Kaysen!!!

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Summary: An exciting reality that will open your eyes!
Review: I don't think I've read any book that is as realistic as "Girl Interrupted." When I first bought the book I thought I was in for a regular non-fiction story. I was wrong. Rather than just being a true life story about Susanna Kaysen in a hospital, it showed more of what it was like to be in a mental institute and what fears, friends, and encounters you may come upon. Before reading this book be prepared for a very honest and intriguing lifestyle of a patient who is diagnosed with "borderline personality." Susanna will give you a close perspective of the interesting patients and disturbing stories they carry.

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Summary: Who's Crazy?
Review: This memoir offers no easy answers. Thought-provoking, but not unnecessarily difficult, Kaysen engages the reader with every word of her sharp, straight-to-the point prose. She really packs her punch; the book a surprisingly fast read (a few hours should do it). I think Girl, Interrupted is one of the most important books written, especially in this day and age where anything seems vulnerable to the power of the pathological. Yes, that probably sounds trite, but it IS one of the most important books written in this day and age! So go read it and then see the movie (it's pretty good too, but not as good as the book, of course). One more thing: the soundtrack's great too, choice oldies and Wilco's "How To Fight Loneliness," plus the special soundtrack music. But that's another review...

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Summary: This book is awesome!!!
Review: It's about a girl who trys to commits suiocide and ends up being checked into a mental hospital. She see'a what's it's really like and even trys to escape a couple of times. It's truly is a book that keeps you hanging a wanting to know what happenes next. I thought that it was good because it tells what real teenagers go through. It doesn't sugarcoat it at all it just gives you the cold hard facts. It gives you the innermost thoughts of this girl and shows that teens don't just have soap opera lives but the have real troubles.

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Summary: That was then this is now
Review: This book I didn't think was any good. There really wasn't a plot. The book just went on and on. Basically the book is just about a kid who goes out on dates, and gets in gang fights. It's boring. But it is an interesting book. When you pick it up you want to read all of it. I didn't like the book because. It was boring. Didn't have a good plot if it even had a plot. The only Major event happens at the end of the story. It constantly skipped around. It was hard to understand. The auther S.E. Hinton added in things that didn't need to be put in the book. The story has nothing to do with the end or the climax. It's like the climax just was picked out of a hat. Those are the main reasons why I don't like this book.

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Summary: This is a book you'll love & won't put it down!
Review: As i picked up this book and began to read I was drawn into the wold of 18 year old Susanna Kaysen. This is a stunning book, it will keep you on your feet wanting more, even when you've finished. I found it very insiteful, and I loved the way it kept changing scene, yet still giving a detailed idea of how her life was when in the hospital. I can assure you that most of you will love this book, and find your self drawn into the world of an 18 year old patient in the 1960's, and wondering what her life was like, and is like now. I would definatly recomend this book to anyone with an eye for a great read.

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Summary: Waste of time....no insight what so ever
Review: The only reason I would give this book one star is to comend her on actually being able to get it published. This book is the worst I have read in years. To begin with it is badly written. Secondly, I am astounded by the amount of positive reviews abiut this book. It is neither deep or insightful - it angers me so much when authors suddenly become brilliant and immortalized if they write about mental problems and especially their own mental problems, theyare automatically good authors. It is not true. The same is going on at present with the play 'Blasted'. I am not degrading her right to want to put her feelings into a book, but a book for OTHERS to read....It is simply politcal correctness gone mad. These people who write the positive, even FIVE STAR reviews, would obviously not know a good book when they read one. Try 'The Last Life', by Claire Messued if you want a good book, or 'Junk' by melvin Brugess if you want an insight into a teenagers strives. And if you like mental illness books, dont waste your time with Girl, Interupted, you could read it in half an hour, and it would be better spent if you managed to read only a section of 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath - a real insight and well written NOVEL.

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Summary: You won't put it down until it's over.......and reread
Review: This was a fabulous book! It was witty but serious and extremely well written. I could see every moment in my mind (and I didn't even see the movie!). The characters are amazing, it's hard to believe that they were real people. But it's still encredebly real. The only problems were that it skipped around in time a little bit and that it makes you wonder if you're also crazy. Other than these minor setbacks I recomend this book to anyone that is not easily disturbed.

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Summary: beautiful
Review: This is the true story of a women committed to an asylum in the 1960s. It is fascinating and beautifully written and makes the reader think hard about the line between the "sane" and the "insane." As a manic depressive, I appreciated the book so much. Susanna Kaysen writes about so many feelings that I've experienced, but have never been able to put into words. We are so lucky that she has the ability and willingness to put these thoughts and feelings on paper for everyone to read. Hopefully, this book will help people who haven't gone through similar things to understand what it's like to be told you're abnormal just because you don't fit into society's idea of what normal is.

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Summary: Not that good
Review: This book was very hard to follow,I think the story line was pretty good but the book itself was hard to follow. The movie was better.