Cut

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Summary: An Excellent Debut Novel (Cut) by Patricia McCormick
Review: Like no other book ever, this book, Cut, by Patricia McCormick, gives the inside views of one girl, Callie, and what she experiences while at Sea Pines, or as it's patients say, "Sick Minds". Sea Pines, is a home for young girls with medical/mental conditions. And what is Callie in for exactly? Callie cuts herself. She likes the thrill, the exhilarating experience she gets from it. She is silent-always. She doesn't like to talk. She uses immense amounts of energy to not talk. She doesn't talk in Group [Therapy] or Individual Therapy, until after one evening after dinner. She took a tin plate that had once had pie in it, and by breaking it, it transformed into a beautiful, shiny, sharp cutting edge. Late that night, when all of the patients are fast asleep, she cuts herself--for the first time since her visit at Sea Pines. Only this time it's different. There is no exhilarating experience. It's painful! After this experience, Callie wants to get better. She tries to talk. She tries hard to change her bad habit. This review will never do this author's (Patricia McCormick) debut novel any justice. To get the full experience of Cut, read it. An excellent choice of reading.

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Summary: Cut by Patricia McCormick
Review: When I first started reading Cut I wasn't sure what to expect, and didn't know what it was about. When I finished reading Cut, I realized that I had actually learned something about a common condition. What made this book even better is that it gave you information in a discrete manner. It didn't just give you facts about people that cut themselves, but it gave you perspective into the life of a girl that was cutting herself. This book takes you through the life of a girl that ended up in a hospital for people with different disorders. It shows you what some people have to go through to get over their conditions and to get healthy again. Almost every book has its weak points and dull moments, but this book kept me interested through almost the whole thing. I would recommend this book to everyone that just wants something that's good to read and isn't to confusing or complicated.

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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: I couldn't put it down. From the moment I read the first paragraph, I knew the book would be fabulous. I read right through it in one day. And I've reread it more than once.

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Summary: Amber James-Bak Middle School of the Arts
Review: Callie is 15. She cuts herself. Enough said for the deadly quiet Callie, but apparently not for Patricia McCormick, who managed to create one of the most enticing novels with such a simple, yet sensitive, subject matter. Cut is such a powerful novel because everyone can connect with Callie, her powerlessness, her vulnerability. How she felt that first tingle across her scalp when she touched the EXACTO knife blade to her palm. We all struggle to find that sense of control and self-satisfaction that she gets from the slick, straight lines she carves into the skin on her palms. Most of us find fulfillment in other ways. Cut is just a novel of how some teens solve that equation of self-control and self-realization. Take some of the other patients at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility", for example. Some starve themselves, for eating is the only thing they can control, so they don't. For others, the high they get from smoking crack is their getaway. But for Callie, all it takes is one string of blood on her wrist, and for a brief moment, she's on top of the world. Only, she is on top of (or trapped in) her own, silent, dark world, for she doesn't talk to anybody. She doesn't want to associate with anyone else at all. But her silence can only last for so long.
Cut relates the difficulties of millions of today's youth with one girls story. Yes, Cut is a fictional novel, but it feels very real, very believable, once you start reading it. All the sudden, you are caught inside Callie's destructive world, with no way out but the source of her emotions and actions, the way she got into this line of destruction. This is what makes the novel so genuine. It's unbelievable what sentiment and struggle is woven in Cut's tapestry. I would recommend Cut to everyone, parents and teens especially. I think Cut would be an excellent way for some teenagers to grasp some of their own feelings, and parents to comprehend their children and their actions. Enjoy!

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Summary: An amazing first person view...
Review: Cut is an amazing book that shows what a cutter goes through. Patricia McCormick did a wonderful job with Cut and I hope she continues to capture the world with her new view of writing. Cut is a great novel.

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Summary: cut.. not as good as it should be
Review: I was very disapointed in this book. For a book with such a strong name, it was a big let down. I'm not saying it was a bad book, it kept my attention the whole way through, but I was REALLY disapointed.. I cant really explain it, but dont expect too much from it.

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Summary: Very good
Review: Callie doesn't talk to anybody, even if she tries and wants to. She knows all about the other people in herr group, yet they wouldn't reconize her voice if you spoke. The people at Sea Pines or as her roomate, Sydney, calls it, Sick Minds, might let her go becuase she made no progress at all.

And there you are, her saciatrist. Who sits in a room with her every day watching her count the stripes on the wallpaper.

The novel helps you understand what it's like to be in a fascility like her's and helps you understand the reasons of people's actions. It was a good book in my opioion and is recomened to all who plan to read it.

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Summary: Uninformative
Review: This was, I believe, the first book I ever read about self-mutilation. This was before I ever started the act. I thought that this is how it was, and that you didn't go through much, but that is not how it is at all. There are so many things rushing through your head and so many feelings. This doesn't happen with Callie. They never really even give a reason for Callie's cutting, so it just seems sort of wasted and purposless. I know you do not always have to have a reason, but there was more information about the other girls than the main character. I don't know anyone who could relate to this book, and if you are a self-mutilator, you want to read books that you can relate to and make you feellike you are not alone. I do not recommend this book to anyone. The author did a poor job with her "research" in this field.

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Summary: Hm
Review: Firstly,this book is well written.It's no boring,or anything like that.I was just very disappointed with the way in which the subject of cutting was dealt with.I found the reasons as to why Callie cut very predictable and cliche, reasons non cutters usually think drive people to self harm.I cut,and it wasn`t because something triggered it off.Also, the book didn`t really describe how Callie felt.I think this part of one of my favourite books,White Oleander,describes why people cut a lot better:

"In a perverse way,I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars.What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? I thought of the girl with the scar tattoos at the Crenshaw group home.She was right,it bloody well should show"
So yeah.All in all,very disappointed with the book,the reasons why callie cut and the negative way in which cutting was shown.Not a very understanding book.From reading this book, I would say that I don`t think the author has ever cut before and if she has I would be very suprised because the book wasn`t very realistic and wasn`t told in the way I would expect someone who used to cut to write it.t seemed like it was written from someone who understood cutting,the...typical ways why people do it,but had never experienced it,or really understood it.

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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK
Review: I think CUT was a great book!! I couldnt put it down, I read it in four days (that never happens).
I have friends who cut themselves and stumbled upon this book in my high school library.
Others who do not understand why we do this should read this book.
I could read this book a million + times and still love it!!