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| Original Title: | Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia |
| ISBN: | 0060858796 (ISBN13: 9780060858797) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Marya Hornbacher
Paperback | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 4.01 | 29037 Users | 1239 Reviews
Details Appertaining To Books Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
| Title | : | Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia |
| Author | : | Marya Hornbacher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | January 31st 2006 by Harper Perennial (first published December 29th 1997) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Psychology. Health. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Biography. Biography Memoir |
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Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia—until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to reality's darker side—and her decision to find her way back on her own terms.Rating Appertaining To Books Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Ratings: 4.01 From 29037 Users | 1239 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
3.5 starsI once had an eating disorder several years ago, so I appreciate Marya Hornbacher's unflinching honesty in Wasted. She holds nothing back in this memoir, sharing the immense pain that accompanies anorexia and bulimia: the preoccupation with calories that takes over your life, the obsession with food that steals your energy from your passions, and the shame and guilt that comes with not feeling strong enough to resist your disorder. Published in 1997, Wasted may have very well served asOk, I read this a long time ago, but it's still quite possibly the best book on eating disorders -- or even on adolescent mental illness -- that I've ever read. Hornbacher is intelligent, avoids cliches and above all, avoids making herself sound good when she can tell the truth instead. A bracing departure from the "girls can't help starving themselves to death when they see all those models in those glossy magazines" line of thinking about eating disorders -- a line of thinking that treats
4.5 stars.I scrolled through some of the reviews, and most of the two-three star reviews complained about this book being triggering, dangerous, etc. They said it contained "tips" and should not be read by people with an ED. First of all, people with an ED figure out the "tips" by themselves sooner or later. A simple google search, pro ED websites, all offer the same "tips". For non ED sufferers, these tips might seem new and absurd, but most people with an ED would have already known about
My relationship with this book is love/hate. It kind of reminds me of Prozac Nation in the sense that the first couple chapters about her average middle-class childhood are pretty boring and pointless. She tries to describe every little bad thing that happened to her like she is the only one in the world who ever received less than perfect parenting. However keep reading because unlike Prozac Nation this book actually gets pretty good as time goes on and you get into the shocking rock-bottom
This was a really beautiful and heartbreaking memoir of a troubled life. It's ostensibly about an eating disorder, but it seemed to me that it's about a long suicide. She's an excellent writer and you feel like you are part of the story--not necessarily rooting for her, but you begin to understand what it might feel like to slowly deprive yourself of sustenance and let yourself die. I hope she's better now
What a change this reading experience of Wasted was when compared to my previously read book - Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love! The author of Wasted, Marya Hornbacher, recalls the early and continual knotting and tangling up of her early childhood, her parents, her family and later, her prep school and college dysfunctional experience and how these all play a part in her developing and nurturing an eating disorder.She is a strong writer but in a very different way as compared unfortunately
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