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Summary: The examples of different girls.
Review: I enjoyed the book, and I will recommed it to all girls to read
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Summary: This book clarifies what makes teen girls tick!
Review: I really enjoyed Reviving Ophelia because, being a 16 year old, I am dealing with many of the issues the girls in the novel are. It helped me understand my feelings and emotions not to mention my family relationships and friendships. I would recommend this book to practically anyone. It helps girls figure out their situations and can help parents understand their "crazy" daughters. I enjoyed it so much that I've already passed it on to two of my other gal pals. The auther should be commended for finally taking a deep indepth look at modern teen girls and offering smart, practicle advice. I give it two strong thumbs up!!
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Summary: This was an interesting book but very repititous.
Review: I read this book for my education 2000 class. At first I was very excited about reading the book. Once I started, it was interesting but began to sound repetitive. I continued reading thinking that this is just the beginning and it will get better. Well, it was still just as repetitive throughout the entire book. It was a good book and should be read by any person who wishes to learn more about why someone acts the way the do. It gives very good feedback and was interesting but it also made it a little hard to get through the book.
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Summary: Very Interesting and Helpful
Review: Hi! I am a fifteen year old girl living in CA and I just finished reading this book. I would like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book and found the information very reassuring and helpful. I would reccommend this book to any girl. I feel that I benefited from reading this book. It helped me learn things about myself and provided me with ways to handle stressful situations in adolescence and to make myself the kind of woman I'd like to be. I would also recommend this book to mom's. It could really give you some insight into what your daughters are going through. I hope read this book and enjoy it as much as I did! :)
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Summary: there is another!
Review: If you are interested in Mary Pipher's book you should know about the new book! An Excerpt from OPHELIA SPEAKS review on Amazon.Com: At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's "Reviving Ophelia", the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other Ophelias to do so as well. "I compiled "Ophelia Speaks" in an effort to give voice for our generation of adolescent girls. I am hopeful that other girls will see themselves in its pages and recognize that they are not alone."--Sara Shandler
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Summary: Does this mirror YOUR life?
Review: How come almost every girl in this book is so unintelligent, materialistic and unhappy? And why does everyone in this book succumb to social pressures? In real life, most teenage girls are strong, smart individuals. Why does Ms. Pipher think her mostly weak, unstable patients are identical to every other girl in America?
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Summary: Horrifyingly Revealing
Review: Pipher captures the adolescence our girls experience but can not verbalize. "Reviving Ophelia" should be read by every woman at least three times in their lives...once when entering adolescence, once when experiencing adolescence and once when completing adolescence. It is also a must read for all mothers and fathers with girls of any age-for though it is alarming and shocking, it provides solutions and hope for the lives we can provide for our young women.
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Summary: Disturbing and enlightening.
Review: I am a 38 year old mother of a 3 1/2 year old daughter and a 1 1/2 year old son. I have been disturbed by the escalating violence committed by today's youth as most of America has. I am looking for answers that will somehow enable me to protect my children and provide them with the safe and comforting environment I grew up in. This book does not give you bullet points on how to do that. There are no simple answers. I don't think any book can provide those. But it does provide you with an insight to our current culture and the ways it can influence our daughters emotional development resulting in questionable and what seem to be irrational choices. However, I urge you not to be disheartened by the books look at our society as "poisening" to all young girls. Be aware of the negative but also emphasize the positive. Seek out the "good role models" for your daughter that exist in everyday life. We would all benefit from the authors suggestion to write each day the things which make us feel good about ourselves.
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Summary: Very Good.
Review: A very thought-provoking book. It is true that the various examples are quite 'non-mainstream' in many cases but every one of them harbors its own personal truth. Although the author does not offer a real conclusion to the issues raised it may be that she realizes the problems are too complex to be adressed in a few paragraphs. The given examples are NOT meant to be a portrait of the average teenage female so no one has to be offended about that. If the problems do not apply to you that's great (I myself lead a very problem-free life) but they probably do to someone else, maybe someone we have been closing our eyes to. And if we really DON'T know anyone who fits the descriptions there is absolutely no guarantee we won't run into one of them in the future, so we might as well think about how we may be able to understand them.
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Summary: A must read!
Review: Finally someone has found the words to express my often miserable adolescence! I read this book out loud to my sister and we both laughed & cried. Though we're both in our twenties now, we can easily identify with the scenarios presented in this book and recommend that any adolescent girl who doesn't think it describes her highschool experience, try reading it again a few years from now when she has some perspective.
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