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Summary: A Good, Yet Quick Read
Review: This book was a nicely written account about young woman dealing with her cutting. I liked the fact that this book read more like a novel and less like a textbook. The main character was very human in her thinking and behavior...she seemed real. Although this was a quick read it gave good insight into what it's like to live with self-injury.
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Summary: Cut
Review: After fifteen-year-old Callie blames herself for a past family incident concerning the health of her younger brother, she starts to cut her wrists to punish herself. Once her doctor and parents notice the scars they send her to a residential treatment facility called Sea Pines. When Callie arrives at Sea Pines, she won't speak to anybody, not her therapist, other kids, or even during group meetings. Finally, as Callie begins to speak to her therapist, she starts to confront the reasons why she started to cut herself. This is the story of a girl that gets so caught up in her own teenage pain that she wrongly accuses herself of an incident that would change her teen years dramatically. This is a quick read that addresses strong and depressing issues. I would recommend it to middle school and high school students. I really enjoyed the way the writer wrote in Callie's point of view. I think that anyone who reads this book will enjoy it.
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Summary: Awsome, and moving.
Review: This book was awsome. It captured the thoughts of a cutter perfectly. I'm not a cutter myself, but I know people who are, and I've read things that cutters have written, and this was pretty much acurate from what I've gathered. Just the way the story carries along, how she explains things- it seems realistic. You feel with Callie about her problems as a cutter- and how she feels about things. I'm not going to explain the book because thats already done, but just understand, this book is a deffinite must read. It's just great.
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Summary: entertaining and breath taking
Review: Cut by Patricia McCormick is a breath taking book about a young teenage girl who is at a mental hospital and her interaction with the other tenents. In Cut Callie cuts herself with anything she can, she wants help but no one can give it to her when she has stoped talking alltogether even to her mother. Patricia McCormick puts you as a main caracter from the first little word to the last one. Cut is a must read for all teenagers. It keeps you wanting more like a bad addiction.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I absolutely loved this book and was amazed at the work of Patricia McCormick's first novel. I am also a fan of Laurie Halse Anderson's, "Speak" and this book left me mesmorized the whole way through. I read it in one sitting and couldn't put it down. You'll be left amazed at Callie's life and feel, in some way or another, a connection to her.
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Summary: Masterfully Written and Moving
Review: After reading the jacket summary of this book, you may think, why would I ever want to read a book about "cutters," but this book has something to offer to everyone. Pat McCormick captures the teen voice in this book, feelings of confusion, guilt, superiority, and depression. Though I wasn't a cutter myself, I remember having some of the same feelings S.T. has and never found a release for them as she did through self-mutilation. Her desperation and desire for help is moving, though seemingly unwanted, and by the end of the novel you cry with hope for her future, as well as that of the adults in the novel. Speaking of the adults, they are neither altogether blamed, nor exonerated of guilt. I would call this a masterpiece and VERY deserving of the Printz Award.
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Summary: This book is very, VERY true.
Review: When I first saw this book and read it was fictional and she got the idea from a newspaper, I thought "How can someone who hasn't been through this write a book about it? How can they get the feelings and emotions right?" I was thinking about returning it and not even reading it, but I decided to try it. I read the first couple of pages and was very surprised. She had the thoughts and feelings and emotions exactly how it really is. She captured a cutter's thoughts in this book, the same thoughts I've been trying to find for months. How she did it, I do not know, but she is a very talented author, and this is a very good book and I reccomend it to any other cutters, also anyone who wants to read a good book. This book helped me (and I'm sure other cutters) see that it's not just hurting you, it's hurting the people around you too.
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Summary: A Cut Above
Review: Sorry about the pun. I read "Cut" in three hours in one sitting. Callie is a teenage girl who is seriously depressed, so depressed that she cuts herself as punishment and winds up in a place she and the other patients call Sick Minds. Callie doesn't want to get better, though, she wants to hurt herself because she feels she doesn't deserve any better. The other girls in her ward suffer from other manifestations of self-hatred, including anoerexia, overeating, and drug abuse. One of the saddest characters is a girl who carves herself up and calls it art and denies that she has a problem. I would like to know her story, too. "Cut" is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about teen depression. This is a riveting first novel and I look forward to Patricia McCormick's next one.
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Summary: This "young adult" novel is for parents, too. . .
Review: This remarkable first novel is the haunting, riveting story of a girl whose family life has spun so badly out of control and whose coping mechanisms are so worn down that she resorts to cutting herself for relief. We meet Callie in a mental hospital, where her nickname is "S.T.," for Silent Treatment, because she doesn't speak; her "group" consists of girls with eating disorders or histories of drug abuse, as well as another "cutter." The striking thing about these girls is their vulnerability, their willingness to trust each other, and their underlying desire, despite the problems they face, to get better. The story is told simply and effectively from Callie's viewpoint, and Patricia McCormick has done a superb job of getting into the mindset of her characters. Most teenagers, even those without any obvious disorders, will identify with the emotions of these girls, which is why this book is also a must read for parents. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Compassion & Truth in a YA Novel
Review: I won't summerize the plot, as that has already been done abovpa e. As a lifelong fan of "YA" literature,"Cut" stands out as one of the most well-written teen dramasI've read. It thankfully lacks the tearjerking of Lurlene McDanielsor the outright campiness of TV-spinoff novels. "Cut" goesdeeply into the psychology of an average American teenager.McCormick's grasp of inner monologue/dialogue is sharp and telling,her observations through the eyes of Callie are stunning at times.It's the little things that Callie notices that twist in the reader'sstomach. McCormick's characterization of Callie's therapist as"You" further pulls the reader into Callie's world. Almostany teen, male of female, will likely see aspects of themselves orpeople they know in this book, which is good: if McCormick's textshould be read just once by just the right person, and just one lessperson harms themselves as a result, then what a priceless monument tothe genre, the author, and the readers! McCormick's language and easewith words and thoughts makes "Cut" an outstanding novel forteenagers, parents and teachers alike, or for anyone who has everentered a "residential facility." "Cut" is a bookthat must be experienced for oneself. And in closing, the novel hasone of the best endings I've ever read in the genre.
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