Girl, Interrupted

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Summary: I Like This
Review: loved the movie thanks to Angelina Jolie. Which made me read the book also because it was a assingment in my school overall this book was phenomenal.

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Summary: Solid but no great literary work
Review: This book is interesting if you want to just have a lite read about a girl gone nuts. But there is little insight into why she thinks she got this way and her descriptions are rather rote and blase. With that in mind, this is much better than "The Bell Jar" by Plath, which is one of the worst novels ever written. Kaysen's characters are more developed than the one dimentional card board cut outs in The Bell Jar. If you are interested, I'd say read it, but it's not as good as the movie. And at all cost, avoid the Bell Jar- but for some reason, (being Plath's fame as a writer) people defend this book as though they had written it themselves. Kaysen is at least a little more mature and not as melodramatic as TBJ.

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Summary: Girl Interrupted (How do you know when you are crazy?)
Review: This book, The Girl Interrupted is a great book to read. This book is full of dark comedy and very interesting points that Susanna tells us about here stay at Mclean Hospital.
Susanna was 18 when she was put into Mclean Hospital, she was diagnosed as having a Borderline Personality Disorder. She tells us about the events that ocurred while she was a patient at the hospital. She tells us in detail about the other patients that are admitted there. Susanna tells us sbout her every day activites that took place, and she tells us about how she was in her crazy state of mind.
This book has a very interesting and different plot and the format of the book flows smoothly, I would highly recomend this book to anyone who is interested in a dark comedy book.

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Summary: In the Loony Bin
Review: I loved the movie thanks to Angelina Jolie. I got the book much later. The book is even more honest.Lisa you love her as if you were Susanna. She is funny, honest and real.

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Summary: normal girl
Review: I loved the movie so I had to get the book. Glad I did. The book is even better. Its more real and honest about what happened to Susuanna. You see that she was really a normal girl who figures out who has the power to see who is insane or sane. Doctors don't know it all, they can misdiagnose. Many doctors did back then in McLean Hospital and many across the world are doing so now.
Susanna and Company have their ups and downs but through it all they have TRUTH and Friendship. Trough this they suceed in what the "Sane" people outside the McLean ward can't ever truely have.

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Summary: Read this and SIREN'S DANCE for both sides of the coin
Review: What is Borderline Personality if you have it and what is Borderline Personality if you are married to the one who has it? These two books (Girl, Interrupted and Siren's Dance) exquisitely show both sides of this most intruiging of mental conditions, that is Borderline Personality. It is great that people are telling their stories more honestly these days. Both books are so real.

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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: This is an extremely well written novel that truly makes you question reality. Am I sane or insane? Who's to decide? What determines the line between the two? What is insanity? Maybe the "sane" people are the ones with something wrong with them! Emotionally gripping, this book will have you on the edge of your seat, daring you to put it down, even for a second. I highly recommend reading it, and seeing the movie as well. At least one of the two are sure to please you. However, if I may make a suggestion, I would have to tell you to read the book first: That way you'll have a deeper understanding of the events in the movie. Enjoy! Also recommended: THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez

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Summary: the movie caught my heart a little more
Review: I found the book to be very well written with concrete detail. It was very straight-forward without any symbolism, metaphors, etc. To me, the plainspoken style failed to leave any open space for the reader to imagine and create his/her own themes and interpretations. Don't get me wrong, the story line is quite intense and very serious, but at least to me, the movie had that slant to it that didn't just give you the facts; it left you guessing and interpreting on your own. It could be because I fell in love with the movie before I read the book. Girl, Interrupted is very honest and thought provoking, causing the reader to look inside themselves as well as the common nature of humans. The characters are round, colorful, and vividly blunt, giving the story its open and upright themes of sanity, human nature, insecurities and fears, as well as the longer journies we all mistakably take in life.

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Summary: All of Us, Interrupted
Review: After learning that the movie "Girl,Interrupted" was based on the memoir of true events in the life of Susanna Kaysen, i thought that it might be an interesting read. I was pleasently suprised at how much i enjoyed the book. Girl, Interrupted tells about the experiences of a young woman's stay at a mental institution in the late 60's, including the people she met there who changed her life. For one thing, i liked that it was a memoir as opposed to a biography. It wasn't "This happened, then this happened, and then this happened," it gave the full story but not by dwelling on the exact sequence of events. At one point the author will be telling about a certain conversation she had with her roomate but in the next chapter she might be telling about when she first entered the institution. The stories had a way of making the reader feel as if he or she were a fly on the wall, a witness to the events that took place. Another reason i liked the book was that it almost made i seem as if the story could happen to anybody, that any one of us could be 'Interrupted.'

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Summary: Poigent Story
Review: This book made me angry, it made me depressed, and it made me feel uplifted. Mainly, it made me think. I've read it several times, and each time I found something new. It is not a traditional story, where the plot follows a chronological path, but then again even fiction has been breaking out of that mold recently, so who are we to condem a book for not following antiquated guidelines. The form that Kaysen has chosen, while sometimes difficult to follow, makes you think more about what she is trying to tell you. About our medical institutes, about how we view adolescence and mental illness.
On an aside note, one of the reviews that I was reading, basically insulted anyone who enjoyed reading Girl, Interupted and gave it a good review. You might like a book, you might now like a book, but that doesn't mean that should insult others who do like it. I personally, have read (suffered through) many of the classics of both French and English Literature, and I know that my personal tastes are not the be end and end all of quality indicators. If you don't like something fine, but a) it doesn't mean that it is a bad book and b) it doesn't give anyone the right to condensend to the other readers.
To conclude: I enjoyed reading Girl, Interupted, and I recommend giving it a try.