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Summary: The only time I would say the movie was better!
Review: I hate to say it, but for once the movie was better then the book. I feel bad giving someone's real experiences a mediocre review. It was interesting to read her thoughts and her perspective. I cannot believe that she was in this institution with other women who it seemed had much more serious mental health problems. I loved the feel of the decade and political turmoil briefly mentioned in the book. I did not like some of the vulgar descriptions and language. Overall, I am glad I read it (once), but it will not be a part of my library. The movie was good, but I guess movies are often better then real life. It is courageous for Kaysen to share this personal information with the world.
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Summary: Hard Times
Review: Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen is an interesting and truthful book; it is also a true story. It is interesting because it tells about the time Susanna spent in a psychiatric hospital. It is also very truthful because it tells how she feels about the hospital and what she goes through while she is there. I think this book was okay, but it could have been better. The reason that I like it is because the author described the characters very well. In 1967 an eighteen year old girl named Susanna Kaysen is sent to a psychiatric hospital for teenage girls. She is sent there after visiting doctors because she tried to kill herself. While there she becomes friends with a girl named Lisa. Lisa was very skinny and raggy looking, who nobody really likes because she always bosses everyone around. While there Susanna makes many new friends and learns many new things from the other girls there. When Susanna is in the hospital she goes through many hard times of not wanting to be there. I would recommend this book to mostly teenagers because they would understand what is going on throughout the book. If you like to read books that have to do with psychology then this would be a good book for you.
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Summary: pretty cool
Review: Susanna Kaysen at age 18 was sent to a mental hospital to 'rest' and stayed there for almost 2 years. In short chapters she describes other patients, doctors and strange oddities of living in a mental institution (Like ice cream trips). One of the more interesting facts of this particular institution are the famous patients who stayed there before her. This is a very quick read.. couple of hours is all you need. The movie is also very good and very much like the book.
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Summary: Girl Interrupted
Review: In the book Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen a young girl at the age of eighteen is put into a mental institution. It is actually a confessional book about herself. She is sent there because of a former suicide attempt. The doctors had diagnosed her with a character disorder. Susanna is deeply depressed and feels hopeless. She was only supposed to stay at McLean hospital for a few weeks, but those weeks turned into two long years. While she was there she met many different and intresting types of people. Pretty much all she ever did was go to therapy, watch TV, and sit around and talk with her friends. There are twists and turns and many unexpected things happen throughout the book. I recommend this novel because it is suprisingly funny and it is quite astonishing.
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Summary: Girl, Interrupted
Review: This book is about a girl named Susanna. It is written by Susanna Kaysen. At the beginning of the story she is put in a taxi and sent to a mental hospital. The name of the hospital is McLean. She meets lots of teenage girls named Lisa, Polly, and Georgina. Georgina was Susanna's roommate. Susanna did not like one thing about the hospital. It was the rooms. They were really tiny with high, small windows and bare mattresses. If you walked in the hallway you could see people either sitting or laying on the mattresses. To enter or exit there were two locked two doors. Lisa was one of the popular girls in the hospital. She did not like the hospital. She tried to run away beacause she was bored. The problem was that she always got caught by one of the nurses. The nurses there were really nice. Later on they met this patient named Valerie. She was a fun person to be with. So everybody liked her. Eventually everyone except Valerie were sent back home. Susanna was the first person to get married after she got out of the hospital. Later Georgina gets married too. They both keep in touch with each other. For a while they lived in North Cambridge and visited each other. Then Susanna moved to Boston with her husband. I recommend this book to someone who likes to know every single detail about other people. This book has so many characters. Although it is a good book. I suggest that everyone should at least try reading this book.
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Summary: A McLean Adventure
Review: In Girl,Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Kaysen goes back to 1967 to relive the McLean Hopital. The hospital was a maximum-security crazy house. Kaysen had gone for her weekly session with her doctor and was plopped in a taxi to McLean. When Kaysen got there she quickly became friends with all the warders. They spent their time in the ward by torturing the nurses and absorbing the television. Kaysen realizes that she cannot be in the ward forever, she soon gets a job after being turned down many a times. She then got married. To get through the years the girls came up with many methods to entertain themselves. They would harass the nurses everyday just to see them open every lock on the ward, when they found nothing wrong the nurse would go back in the office and the cycle would happen again. But most of the girls time was spent smoking and consuming TV. I would greatly recommend this book to people over the age of thirteen. The subject of what goes on in a mental hospital is not a subject one reads about everyday. It made me understand life in a different perspective. The strong characters added to the memoir greatly. Just the idea that Kaysen could go back into such a deep, dark past was amazing. Through the pains and problems of the girls, their stay a McLean made an unexpectedly funny memoir and it was written with the greatest detail possible.
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Summary: The Borderline
Review: The story GIRL INTERRUPTED is a story about a girl named Susanna Kaysen who goes to a mental institution in 1967. The doctor diagnosed her with borderline personality diorder. Her therapist said that she had to spend at least two years in the hospital. Susanna met a lot of new friends at the hospital. She was usually with one in perticular. Her name was Lisa, and Lisa was a bad influence on Susanna. They get into a lot of trouble together and this was not helping Susanna progress in her thrapy or problems. Lisa had been in the hospital for many years and there was nothing the doctors could do with her. She just kept getting worse and worse. Although Susanna had fun with Lisa she knew she had to seperate from her. When Susanna was away from Lisa she got through her problems and was out of the hospital within a matter of eight-teen months. I recommend this book very much. I enjoyed reading it and thought it was very exciting and thrilling. It made me think about all the problems that so many people have. It was a wonderful novel and I hope many more people get the opportunity to read it
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Summary: Wished It Had More To It.
Review: I really liked this book,it is a very honest account of dealing with depression(I've been there,so I know..) I just wish the book was longer,I guess I was expecting it to be like the film,which was great. A rather sketchy but affecting story.
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Summary: Girl, Interrupted
Review: Kaysen writes a great representation of the dark jumble inside her head as she does about the hospital routines, the staff, and the patients. All the people (celebrities, patients, and staff) are memorable such as: Ray Charles, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Susan (thin and yellow), and Daisy (laxatives and chicken). Susan Kaysen is able to tell her story with humor and irony. Moreover, it is a straightforward account of the inmantes' experiences, capturing their fears, their quirky bravery and their solidarity as misfit teens. This is a great book for young adults which may be experiencing much of the same.
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Summary: Girl Interrupted, By Susanna Kaysen
Review: It was 1967, when 18 year old Susanna Kaysen started her 18 month stay at McLean Mental Hospital. The book Girl Interrupted talks about Ms. Kaysen's life change experiences at McLean. A thought provoking novel; lined with dark comedy. All the way from her searching for answers to the strangest questions, to her very interesting and humor satisfying fellow patients. Even in the dark areas Ms. Kaysen finds light. I feel the book is amazing, due to it's extreme frankness with mental health. The order of the book can be confusing, but the rest is great. I greatly reccomend this book.
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