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Summary: VERY DATED MATERIAL
Review: As someone actively in treatment with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and who spent two years as an inpatient during the late1980's at Mclean Hospital, I found Kayson's book to be verging on dangerous. Her experience is dated enough to no longer be accurate, and while it is written as a personal memoir, clearly from the comments here, people are being given a (perhaps unintentional) false exposé on the hospital, and more importantly on the diagnosis. Recently there has been a lot of advancement in reasearch in the field, and treatments have become more hopeful.
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Summary: This book is for every teenage girl to read...
Review: This book is absolutly awesome. I read it in 9th grade for my English class. It tells the story of and teenage girl who is put into a mental hospital after only one session with a therapist. Throughout the book, the girl grows and matures much like any teenage girl does, but the setting is a little bit different. But what the girls goes through and what she thinks is exactly what I go through and think. This book was so powerful, it almost had me convinced that I had a "borderline personality." As I said earlier, this book is a must for any teenage girl wanting to understand her own thoughts and to basically find herself, because it sure helped me.
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Summary: Great book
Review: i read this for a biography in my 8th grade class. i luved it. it was really good. she wasent afraid to say anything but the truth and is a really good book for people my age, helps you understand sertant thing's you would'nt know inless you read this book! ta ta
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Summary: Deeply moving and interesting-cover to cover!!!
Review: A young teenager feels she is going mad and checks herself into a "clinic". There she meets her true friends and learns what it is like to be compassionate person. Girl, Interupted is developing classic of the new age.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: This book was great. It almost made me believe that I suffered from borderline personalitly.
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Summary: An interesting, vividly described story...
Review: ...detailing the years that the author spent in a mental institution. She gives a very moving portrayal of not only her own struggles and experiences but also those of the other patients and staff. This is a great book to read if you ever have days when you feel a little off. Actually, it's great to read anytime. I hope that the movie with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie stays true to the spirit and details of the book, as to change them would be a great disservice to the author.
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Summary: A journey of the emotions, not of the intellect
Review: One of the previous reviews said, "differentiate between shallow-reader and shallow-writing." This is exactly the case. Ms. Kaysen's book put a lot of things into perspective and even put into words many of the same thoughts I've had but couldn't express. How does one express that everything within is moving at such a slow pace that it can actually be sensed on a cellular level? Ms. Kaysen did that. Some emotions even intellect cannot properly convey. Yet Ms. Kaysen managed to do it. One criticism that I read said that it wasn't very informative about borderline personality disorder. It wasn't supposed to be. It's her story. She didn't know much about borderline personality disorder when she was diagnosed with it. Immature writing? A teenager's book? It was written from memories of being 18. It couldn't work written as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray or Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It has a style all its own. A style that is simplistic on the surface, but complex and diverse underneath the skin of it. It connects on a level deeper than literary merit, and that is what draws people into it. If it's read it as one would read a classic, delving into the literary conventions of it, then it will probably be disappointing. But if it's read it with one's emotions, it'll be one to cherish forever. I found it to be an amazing book... when I wasn't laughing, I was crying because I found a part of myself in it. My sincere gratitude to Ms. Kaysen for her work and for sharing it with her readers.
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Summary: A shallow find for mature readers....
Review: This is a memoir about a young woman who suffers from a bipolar illness. Ms. Kaysen's writing style and presentation are too cutesy, prepackaged and neat. One gets the impression that she tries too hard to impress and to hold the reader's interest with her heavy use of visual analogy and flippant humor - which could certainly make it entertaining enough for young adult readers. However, it is a shallow find for those who might have the thirst for subtlety and a more complex, subdued hue. The book reads very smoothly and that's about it.
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Summary: I tried to like this book but...
Review: Ms. Kaysen is annoying! I kept trying to like this memoir and empathize with Ms.Kaysen, but I found her to be self-involved and kind of irritating. Sorry. If you want to read an excellent memoir, try Lori Schiller's "The Quiet Room".
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Summary: the truest book i've ever read.
Review: susanna gave an extremely accurate account a mental hospital stay... i was shocked to realize that things haven't changed since susanna's stay *years* ago. susanna has razor sharp wit and the same dry sense of humour that i do, so it was easy to become obsessed with this book. i've read it 4 times now.
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