Cut

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Summary: Stupid, illogical, and badly written
Review: I have been cutting for almost a year. Callie's reasons for cutting were so thin they were laughable. It was emotionally bereft, McCormick doesn't even try to describe the overwhelming shame, urge, and self-hatred that are all a part of self injury. There just aren't enough bad words for how awful this book is!

If you want to read about self injury, first read Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell. I love this book; I have read it at least a dozen times. A Bright Red Scream by Strong is very good as well. Cutting by Levenkron is good for people trying to understand this from a therapist's point of view. Bodily Harm by Conterio, co founder of S.A.F.E., is decent, but they have some misconceptions about SI.

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Summary: Book Review for "Cut"
Review: I read "Cut" by Lucia McCormick. I think she is a great author. It was such a creative way of how she wrote this story. She put the story in first person through Callie, and she was talking to the therapist the whole time. The book was very interesting because it tells about a girl in a rehabilitation center through her point of view. It said everything she was thinking about and what she thought of all the people in the story. The story gave many details to give the ready a good idea of what Callie is going through and how she feels about it. The details helped me understand it because it kind of felt like I was there, at Sean Pines, with Callie and all her friends. I felt like I was just watching them and I knew everything that went on with them. Like on page 3 when Callie was in a cross country meet she said, "The soles of her sneakers swam up and down in front of me, first one, then the other, a grid of ridges that spelled out the upside-down name of the shoe company. My steps fall in parallel with hers. My feet went where her feet just had been. She leaned around the corner, I leaned around the corner. She breathed, I breathed." Just from reading that you can just picture in your mind what was happening.
Patricia McCormick does not really teach us a lesson in this story. If Callie would have graduated from Sea Pines, then there would be a lesson and that lesson would be never give up hope because in the end everything will be okay. That is the thing I didn't like about this story. The ending wasn't too great. I though Callie would have gotten better and she would have graduated from Sea Pines, but she didn't .At the end of the story, she was still there. "Cut" kind of relates to my life because in middle school I had a few friends who were suicidal. I guess the book kind of interested me because I wanted to read about a girl that had the same problem as my friends.
I would definitely recommend this book to other people. It is very different from other books. Even if you don't like to read, this book will like suck you into it and you will just want to keep reading.

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Summary: Easy to relate.
Review: I read this book over the summer. I am, like Callie, a cutter. I also self injure other ways. Reading this book just made me realize that every cutter may have a different reason for what they do, but almost all cutters get the same feelings from self injury. A book that was so easy to relate to was truly refreshing.
I recommend it to self-injurers and those who have never even thought about self injury alike. I believe it portrays cutting in an accurate way and I think that people who do not cut who read this book will better understand why people self injure. It is a truly wonderful book.

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Summary: Cut is A Great Book For Anyone
Review: I really liked the book Cut,. The book Cut would sometimes you would just on the edge of your. I liked how you wouldn't know what would happen next. It is about a young teenage girl who got caught in her whole life and couldn't take it no more and she tried to kill herself. She was sent to mental institution were there she would have to face people with what she did. What I dislike about the book was when you thought she was going to talk, she did'n. I say a movie ones about a girl that had to go to a mental institution, but I haven't read a book like Cut.

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Summary: A must read for all!
Review: Cut is a great book about Callie, a 15 year old girl who isn't talking to anybody. Not even her therapist at Sea Pines, which is a "residential treatment facility" where her parents sent her after discovering that she mysteriously cuts herself. Callie eventually finds her voice and confides in her therapist.She also starts talking to the other girls at Sea Pines who have issues of their own such as anorexia, bulimia, eating too much, and also cutting theirselves like Callie. As her treatment with her therapist progresses, the story to why she cuts herself starts starts to unfold. What happens next? I don't know. You'll have to read the read the book to find out.
The reason I like this book is because it keeps you wanting to read more. In the beginning it's not the best and kind of hard to understand, but once you get further into the book you never want to put it down. Each page you turn just keeps getting more exciting than the previous page. I hope you take the time to enjoy this book as much as I have.

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Summary: Deep, Absorbing
Review: Callie is inflicted with guilt,blaming herself for her brother's illness.She cuts herself with sharp objects and refuses to speak.Because of these problems she is placed in a mental health facility and slowly makes friends with the other troubled teens inside.Cut shows just how much can go wrong when we don't voice our problems,and believe the lies inside our minds,which can lead to darkness,devastation,self-destruction.I would also like to say this:Has anyone ever wondered why so many kids are developing mental health problems,like Callie??Could it be that we live in a cynical world that offers little hope or faith?Adults should realize how important it is to share positive attitudes.

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Summary: please do not dismiss Callie's pain
Review: I am in my early 20's, and like Callie, I am a cutter. Also like Callie, my home life was relatively stable, though I experienced some problems, and especially feelings, eerily similar to hers. I turned to dealing with them in the same way. This book brought back my adolescence in an intense, almost overwhelming flood. However, unlike Callie I never got help because my attempt to tell the adults in my life about my feelings (never mind the cutting) were trivialized with responses like, "Oh, it's just teen angst. I felt like that when I was a kid". I was also never lucky enough to get caught. It was not until I was 21 that I was taken seriously, and was finally diagnosed with severe anxiety and moderate depression, and was started on medication and therapy.
Brushing this book off as a "bad influence that might give kids ideas" infuriates me. This is the type of thinking that prevents kids from being educated about suicide prevention. If I had had a book like this when I was younger, I might have pushed harder to get help. Sometimes teens, even those with relatively "stable" home lives might be in intense pain, and it is too often brushed off by the adults around them. Callie provides a public voice to the pain that these teens may not be able to voice on their own.

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Summary: whoops!
Review: this book is irratting. especaily the part where she cutts her self with a pie pane. she thinks 'its never hurt before' i dont think a 'real' cutter would think that. it allways huts. its reatching out and harnessing that pain. this seams like what would happen if i tried top wrihgt about a cocain addiction. most people wuld belive it but people who have expirianced the real thing would be quite angry at the little fuzzy details.

her issues are much to clear. the book would be better if they were fuzzed up a bit. maybe take out her brother compleatly. she seams like a good girl. happy and creative.

and allso the floor doesnt feel like it's tipping when you cut.

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Summary: Not quite there...
Review: I was quite excited to read this book after hearing my friends' rave reviews. I expected a deep, thoughtful story, one that would help me make sense of my own self injury. This was not what i got. The story was thin, characters were not realistic, but what got me most was the author's description of Callie's cutting. "A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up, and my body spiraled away... i felt awesome"(11) I've never experienced anything like this, except for the feeling of release. The book focused most on her stay at Sea Pines, rather than on her self injury, so i'm not sure that 'Cut' was the best title choice. I felt robbed of my time and energy after reading this book, and I pity the author who, "spent three years researching and writing 'Cut'." One plus of the story was that I could really feel for Callie's younger brother, Sam. He was only a child and did not understand what was going on with his sister, but was always kind to her. The book isn't horrible, but it was written to childishly for those whom the theme is appropriate for.

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Summary: An Accurate Portrayal, May Oversimplify Therapeutic Process
Review: As a Master's level therapist working with adolescent girls in a residential treatment setting, I was interested in finding a book that might help my clients who use cutting as an "emotional release". This book does very well in that vein, however, without processing with an adult, I could see that this book may lead some adolescents to believe that cutting is an issue that can be "cured" quickly, and that "talk therapy" is the ONLY way of resolving similar issues.
"Cut" does a good job of discussing the long process of building a rapport with a therapist or other professional. The book does an excellent job of illustrating that one needs to be frank with her thoughts and feelings, particularly with herself, in order to begin to resolve some of her underlying issues. I enjoyed the author's portrayal of the residential facility, particularly how well she portrayed the fact that children quickly pick up on who is or is not committed to their job and who is easy to manipulate. IN SUMMARY: An easy to read book that flows well; Highly Recommended for the teen reader who struggles with identifying and expressing her feelings as long as an adult discusses with her that the book illustrates the BEGINNING of the therapuetic process for Callie, rather than a "quick cure".