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Review: Wasted is one of the better books on eating disorders I've seen in quite a while, having read it over my mid-winter break while on the trains in San Francisco, it made me cringe and laugh and think and say "oh god, I know this." Certain parts were very vague and scattered, but that is understandable I suppose and she doesn't sound like a 23 year old, she sounds so much older and yet she sounds her age a lot at the same time. During certain moments I became quiet and stunned with the reality of eating disorders all over again, after having been diagnosed with EDNOS a few years back, scared for the lives of the women and men affected by them. Marya's memoir of her eating disorders is disturbing and sometimes far too raw, and at the same time it's the most realistic memoir on eating disorders I've seen yet. Eating disorders plague our world and yet people still think those with eating disorders are vain and trying to be "trendy" and that a simple pill can fix anything (we, unfortunately, live in a drug culture) but eating disorders are a real disease that can infect the mind and may never quite let go even with therapy and medication and support. In some ways it's really quite sad, though. This book, as helpful as it can be, can also destroy. While reading Wasted and after finishing it, I had moments where I would check myself in the mirror, count calories, skip meals and I had to smack myself and stop... and it's so sad that we're all so obsessed with weight and our bodies. Over all, Wasted is a wonderful book, but I would not recommend it for those who are dealing with or have recovered from an eating disorder or for those who are easily swept into things. In some ways, I suppose, Wasted could be considered a trigger for eating disorders. So be forewarned, this book makes desire for being thin rise up within the self and yet it also makes eating disorders easy to reject because of what chaos they can cause to the body.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is an amazing story of a girl/woman's life dealing with so many issues, but mainly focusing on bulimia/anorexia. It does include her problems with alcohol, drugs, and sex a well. I couldn't put it down, and I think that anyone who has ever felt emotional pain (and that's all of us) will get something out of this book. You can't help but love Marya.
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Summary: Very honest look at eating disorders
Review: This book is amazing! I strongly recommend it to anyone trying to understand or deal with an eating disorder. It sugar-coats nothing and gives an honest account of Marya Hornbacher growing up a very self-concious. Extemely well written without forgetting to portray the emotional and physcial toll an eating disorder takes on a person.
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Summary: Wasted is Right
Review: Yes, Ms Hornbacher is talented, but she is absolutely no better at the conclusion the book than she was when she began. This is a great step-by-step guide for how to destroy your life using an eating disorder, and it doesn't offer the alternative of getting over yourself and working hard in recovery.
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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: This is the best book i've ever read!! i've been going through an eating disorder recovery for six mounths and this out of all books is the best and most chilling to read. Its strange how i could relate to it so much...maybe that's why it was so great for me. Any one who wants to get into a mind of a disorder or is recovering from ana or mia then this bood will enlighten you!!! :)
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Summary: Intimate and Beautiful
Review: The honesty of this book had a profound affect on me the first time I read it. Its something everyone should experience, Not for her downward spiral necessarily, but for her ability to take us on her journey in such a touching way.
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Summary: The best on ED's I've been fortunate enough to read
Review: Marya Hornbacher leaves nothing to be desired with this amazingly honest memoir. Having both Anorexia and Bulimia myself, this was a wonderfully comforting companion to have in the darkest times. I don't know where I would have been without it. I've now read this book three times and I feel more and more hopeful every time I read it. I also recommend this book to every family member and friend of someone with an ED. It offers understanding and acceptance to anyone who reads it. She is so honest and forthright. Don't pass it up.
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Summary: Moving
Review: Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher, is a memoir about a girl's life long struggle with anorexia and bulimia. The book starts out when Marya was young and insecure and how her insecurities grew into a constant want to be thin, which made her bulimic. The book goes on through her life as she grows up and enters a dangerous world of sex, drugs, alcohol and food. As she grows up she becomes hospitalized multiple times and institutionalized once. In fact she doesn't even realize that she has a problem and needs to stop until she reaches such a dangerously low weight that the doctors are shocked she survives. The book is a must for any teenage girl who has to deal with the want for being thin and perfect. Marya's writing is honest and thoughtful and not filled with a scrap of self pity. She only tells the truth and she tells her story beautifully and with amazing strength. I hope that Marya one day decides to write a fiction book so I can see more of her work. She's a very talented writer. I recommend it to any teenage girl or older.
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Summary: Great Book!!!
Review: This book is amazing! I first bought it to help understand a roommates disorder and it blew me away. It was as if I was reading her personal story. I have read it several times and recommended it to others, including other girls fighting the disease. I couldn't put it down and it helped me understand not only the disease but what is going on in the mind of someone with an eating disorder. I highly recommend this book to anyone with the disease or to anyone who knows someone with an eating disorder.
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Summary: One of those my-head-is-on-fire books
Review: I imperiled my graduate school applications to read this book. I also whimpered and screamed at it on occasion. It's a perfectly unvarnished account of the hell -- mind you, a comforting and emotionally nurturing hell -- that the author put herself through with years of eating disorders and their primary and secondary emotional trauma. Some of her ametur psychology is dubious, at best, but her intuitive understanding of her experiences is piercing. I'm not sure who should read this book. It's not going to effect miraculous reversals in people with existing eating disorders, yet its deep-down-the-rabbit-hole story may not make much sense to outsiders. On the bright side, the "inside" category encompasses not just ED sufferers, but also therapists, physicians, psychologists, and anyone who's ever worked in a freshman women's dormitory. The greatest triumph of this book is that it allows us to understand how rank, moribund insanity seemed like a _perfectly good idea_ at the time.
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