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Title: Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher ISBN: 0-06-093093-4 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (303 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: honest and in need of talking with her!
Comment: Marya... I haven't yet completed the book, although I read it everyday. I am an older person suffering from anorexia (34). My life has been an chaotic mass of turmoil for as long as I can remember. The book offers great insight to the fact that I am as normal as it gets in the confusing world of anorexia. I recently have stopped my therapy, (I felt it was not a helpful option) I am trying to get through this awful mess alone and reading your accounts of life as a person with an eating disorder has focused me on being "normal " again. Thank you for your honest insight on this terrible disease, (I am an RN) and it helps to know tht I am not alone in my single struggle to become free from my demons. God bless you for your honest insight and God help me to be strong and survive. Thank you for your talented writing and your honesty of reality.
Rating: 5
Summary: Frightening and Honest
Comment: I first read Wasted when I was 18 years old and in the throes of an eating disorder myself. I will admit that yes, I was looking to find "tips" or "tricks" to use in my disorder, and at first, it seemed that I had found them. (Many a negative review has been written about this book for this reason.) However, as you continue reading this book, any ideas you have about anorexia or bulimia being glamourous and a means of self-control are erased. I have never before read anything so raw, real, and honest as this book. Hornbacher does not bother "sugar coating" eating disorders by avoiding topics such as, health problems caused by starvation or the toll they take on your life personally and professionally.
Sure, a young or impressionable reader could use the author's story as inspiration for her own illness if she so desired. However, if you choose to do this, be prepared to encounter some of the consequences Hornbacher did. The title, "Wasted", did not simply mean that she looked like she was wasting away. She lost jobs, friends, relationships with family, and years of her life. The book truly lays the entire eating disorder process out in front of you. She basically says, "here's how I starved myself, binged, purged, and exercised my way to thinness. And here's how I wasted my youth spending time in hospitals and doing drugs. And here's how I now have heart problems, can never have children, and I screwed up my digestive system permanently. My body will never work the way it should."
To those readers looking for inspiration, "Wasted" will give you more than you bargained for. You will learn tricks, but you will also be inspired to recover as quickly as possible in order to avoid a life marred down by eating disorders that ultimately take over your entire life.
Since I first read this book several years ago, I have come a long way in my struggle with anorexia and bulimia. Now, when I pick it up, I am still looking for inspiration--I read it to inspire me to stay in recovery to avoid returning to a life like Hornbacher's. I recommend this book to almost anyone--from current sufferers of eating disorders to recovered sufferers who want to be reminded of the hellish road they had to travel to get better, to people who wish to better understand a loved one with anorexia or bulimia.
Rating: 4
Summary: A woman's fear
Comment: Marya Hornbacher's "Wasted" is a scary look into the a woman's life struggle with one of the nation's greatest diseases: bulimia and anorexia. Her fear is palpable. Comparing thinness to elegance and the ideal desire is something any woman in the world can relate to. Her ironic love for food and struggle to part with it takes you, as a reader and as a woman, through a struggle that becomes your own. It raises the questions of how normal any of us really are and how far from it we can all get. By the time Marya got to college, she was, in fact, close to being completely wasted, far from the reaches of what is considered normal. Five different hospitalizations hadn't helped her and her fear was getting stronger and hiding deeper. As soon as her conditions got better, she'd go right back down again, worse than she was before. The constant roller coaster that becomes her life is what keeps the reader at the edge of their seat waiting for the glimpse of hope to come to light. Her talent as a writer is what keeps her going and what shows us the dark world she has been through and continues to struggle against. Her story of losing every part of life that was her own and regaining every sense of it, is one that after putting the book down is not forgotten.
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Title: Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig, Joy Peskin, S. November ISBN: 0141305800 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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