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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.Amazon.com Review
“I fell for the great American dream, female version, hook, line, and sinker,” Marya Hornbacher writes. “I, as many young women do, honest-to-God believed that once I Just Lost a Few Pounds, suddenly I would be a New You, I would have Ken-doll men chasing my thin legs down with bouquets of flowers on the street, I would become rich and famous and glamorous and lose my freckles and become blond an… More >>
Wasted: Memoir Of Anorexia And Bulemia
Not worth the paper it is printed on–what is there is not helpful to anyone with a problem and not entertaining for
others.
I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is book isn’t just a memoir, it’s fairy tale version of a eating disorder. There are moments in this book where are supposed to be frightening and shocking but they come across as a cliche scene from a tv movie about bulimia and drug abuse. Hornbacher explains to her audience how she delighted in destorying herself and how she “out smarted” everyone and was nearly able to destory herself entirely but somehow, Hornbacher isn’t sorry or a bit remorseful for what she did to her parents and all those who knew her, only she seems to remember it fondly like a little girl remembers a amusement park ride. In fact, threw the book, she seems to talking herself into a relapse before the reader’s eyes. She also expects us to believe she can recall things back from the time when she was five and was already self conscience about food. In fact, most of the book reads like fiction and it probably is, considering if Hornbacher had gone threw all of the sex, drugs and binging and purging (all three combined), surely, she would have either died from AIDS or beside a toliet.
Rating: 1 / 5
Personally, I thinkg Mayra is one of the most messed up people I’ve ever read about. This book, if anything, confuses people about anorexia. It goes against so much of the knowledge we have learned about anorexia and bulimia. I know that’s what she was trying to get through to us, that anorexia isn’t just about control and feeling fat all the time, but I personally thought it was just depressing. Also, the reason–or part of–she’s bulimic is so obvious that I was surprised that I was told to believe this girl was intelligent. Her parents were completely nutso when it came to food, she came from an out-of-control childhood, moved into a teenage life full of sex and drugs, and then moved into a bording school where half the girls there were suffering from eating disorders! Hello? No wonder this girl has problems. This was a sorely depressing and sorely disappointing book all in one. Don’t read it, and especially, don’t buy it. Check it out at the library if you really are that desperate.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is not a very insighful book, – the writing is clever at times but clever does not equate to good. I can’t see this being very informative or helpful to either sufferers or parents etc. there are no insights to the recovery process. There are far better books than this and I just don’t think the author has really developed any crtical thinking around the nature of the eating disorder.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book was a great eye opener for anyone that ever thought that alternative dieting
Rating: 4 / 5