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Summary: one world
Review: Cut is a really good novel that shows how life is when you break down the big screen. Im not sure of many people who have read this book have been institutionalized or hurt themselves but i thought that it helped me out tremendously. it hit home with alot of stuff and its hard. this is Patricia McCormick's first novel and it is outstanding. great job.
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Summary: Poor and very inacurate
Review: It was obvious that this woman did not actually understand this disorder and was horrible at stereotyoing every other disorder discussed. If it will help people cope with this disorder that's great. However this book was anything but great.
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Summary: WOW
Review: This book was so good! i read it all in one day. i couldnt put the book down. i think the plot was good. everyone who has read it said it was great!! in my town cutting is one of the most "popular" thing to do. this book really shows you what will happen to people who get cought and have to get help. it shows you that you want help. i would tell everyone to read this book.
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Summary: The best in a long time!
Review: I've been reading books like this one for a long time and this is the best one in a long time!It's about a 15 year old girl who has been put into a mental house with other girls with problems of their own.She learns more about herself and tries to understand that she did not cause her brother's disease.It's a great book and everyone should read this.
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Summary: Definately not written from experience..
Review: Although I do see how Cut would be appealing to curious young teenagers, I found the plot behind Cut to be very weak. Cutting doesn't seem to be that huge of a problem for Callie, yet she gets sent to Sea Pines/Sick Minds for it, whial realistically, people go for years without being discovered as a cutter, and when they do, they usually only get the help of a psychaitrist, not a full blown mental hospital. Some of the emotion was genuine, like the desperate cutting with the plate, and giving herself up to the nurses. But in general, the characters were weakly developed. I have yet to read a book that captures the emotions behind cutting accurately, though. This is worth redaing, as many people enjoyed it.
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Summary: Cut
Review: The book Cut is an extraordinary book. It's about a little girl who cuts herself to ease her problems. When she shows the guidance counselor she calle d her mother. They decided to send her to hospital called Sea Pines.
She doesn'r like to talk,but when a new girl who has the same problem caomes everything changes. I would reccomesnd this book to anyonw with a caring heart.
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Summary: Cut
Review: Cut is about a girl (Callie) that is depressed and cuts herself. She is taken to Sea Pines or as they call it Sick Minds. There are other girls there that have different problems. Some are anorexic and others are druggies and the rest like Callie are assorted psychos. They were there to get help with there problems.
I enjoyed this book it was a little slow in the begining, but picks up through the book. I think it was a great book. I hope you enjoy!
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Summary: Good insight!
Review: I've been cutting for 3 years and could really relate to this book. If you have never self-harmed it would be hard to understand. It showed the authors abillity to see what someone else may be feeling. Although it didn't really explain why she started cutting and why she thought to cut etc. All in all a great first book!
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Summary: Poignant and Real
Review: For me, reading this book was very surreal. It was like the author had broken into my brain and stolen a piece of my life and wrote it in this book. I have lived this, and I know what Callie was thinking, feeling and why she was doing it. I have never heard anyone else voice the justifications and reasoning that I have spoken so often. She knew why; both whys. She knew about the endorphins, but anybody can find that out in a book or from a shrink. What was amazing to me is that she knew about the addiction and the complete loss of control. I simply couldn't stop. Reading this book was also very disturbing for me. Maybe it's because I have lived these experiences, but I felt myself slipping back into that disorienting and foggy world of complete and total confusion, anger, and fear. While that is not an experience I will repeat anytime soon, I'm so glad I found this book.
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Summary: Bak Middle School of the Arts- Mr. Felt's Review
Review: Callie is a fifteen- year- old girl who does not use the word 'normal' in her vocabulary. On the other hand, she knows far from 'normal.' Callie feels that, "there's no rush, no relief. Just a keen, pulsing pain. I drop the pie plate and grasp my wrist with my other hand; dimly aware even as I'm doing it that it's something I've never done before. Never tried to stop the blood." She says this as she cuts herself. So, with her problem, she goes to an institution called Sea Pines (or Sick Minds like everyone likes to call it there.) Here, there are teens with cases such as anorexia, obesity, and even substance-abuse issues. Then there are others, like Callie, that suffer from behavioral issues. She cuts herself when others aren't looking. In the book Cut, she desperately turns to the blade of a paper towel dispenser in a restroom or even a metal strip from the cafeteria to feel that rush of relief, to make her happy.
Not only does Callie have a problem with cutting herself, but also she won't talk about it. At Sea Pines, there are daily meetings where everyone talks about their problems aloud and counselors try to help out with the issues. Callie won't say a word about it. She avoids looking the counselors in the eye so that she wouldn't be called on. Even when she was called on, she rebels and still won't say a word. Can Callie stay silent for so long? Will she handle it? She has to say something, right?
With an inspiring author like Patricia McCormick, how can anyone lose the chance of reading a great book like Cut? McCormick gives so much description and detail into the book that anyone can understand how the character feels. Find out when Callie will crack. Read Cut, by Patricia McCormick.
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