Girl Interrupted

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Summary: This book is awesome!!!
Review: It's about a girl who trys to commits suiocide and ends up being checked into a mental hospital. She see'a what's it's really like and even trys to escape a couple of times. It's truly is a book that keeps you hanging a wanting to know what happenes next. I thought that it was good because it tells what real teenagers go through. It doesn't sugarcoat it at all it just gives you the cold hard facts. It gives you the innermost thoughts of this girl and shows that teens don't just have soap opera lives but the have real troubles.

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Summary: That was then this is now
Review: This book I didn't think was any good. There really wasn't a plot. The book just went on and on. Basically the book is just about a kid who goes out on dates, and gets in gang fights. It's boring. But it is an interesting book. When you pick it up you want to read all of it. I didn't like the book because. It was boring. Didn't have a good plot if it even had a plot. The only Major event happens at the end of the story. It constantly skipped around. It was hard to understand. The auther S.E. Hinton added in things that didn't need to be put in the book. The story has nothing to do with the end or the climax. It's like the climax just was picked out of a hat. Those are the main reasons why I don't like this book.

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Summary: This is a book you'll love & won't put it down!
Review: As i picked up this book and began to read I was drawn into the wold of 18 year old Susanna Kaysen. This is a stunning book, it will keep you on your feet wanting more, even when you've finished. I found it very insiteful, and I loved the way it kept changing scene, yet still giving a detailed idea of how her life was when in the hospital. I can assure you that most of you will love this book, and find your self drawn into the world of an 18 year old patient in the 1960's, and wondering what her life was like, and is like now. I would definatly recomend this book to anyone with an eye for a great read.

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Summary: Waste of time....no insight what so ever
Review: The only reason I would give this book one star is to comend her on actually being able to get it published. This book is the worst I have read in years. To begin with it is badly written. Secondly, I am astounded by the amount of positive reviews abiut this book. It is neither deep or insightful - it angers me so much when authors suddenly become brilliant and immortalized if they write about mental problems and especially their own mental problems, theyare automatically good authors. It is not true. The same is going on at present with the play 'Blasted'. I am not degrading her right to want to put her feelings into a book, but a book for OTHERS to read....It is simply politcal correctness gone mad. These people who write the positive, even FIVE STAR reviews, would obviously not know a good book when they read one. Try 'The Last Life', by Claire Messued if you want a good book, or 'Junk' by melvin Brugess if you want an insight into a teenagers strives. And if you like mental illness books, dont waste your time with Girl, Interupted, you could read it in half an hour, and it would be better spent if you managed to read only a section of 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath - a real insight and well written NOVEL.

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Summary: You won't put it down until it's over.......and reread
Review: This was a fabulous book! It was witty but serious and extremely well written. I could see every moment in my mind (and I didn't even see the movie!). The characters are amazing, it's hard to believe that they were real people. But it's still encredebly real. The only problems were that it skipped around in time a little bit and that it makes you wonder if you're also crazy. Other than these minor setbacks I recomend this book to anyone that is not easily disturbed.

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Summary: beautiful
Review: This is the true story of a women committed to an asylum in the 1960s. It is fascinating and beautifully written and makes the reader think hard about the line between the "sane" and the "insane." As a manic depressive, I appreciated the book so much. Susanna Kaysen writes about so many feelings that I've experienced, but have never been able to put into words. We are so lucky that she has the ability and willingness to put these thoughts and feelings on paper for everyone to read. Hopefully, this book will help people who haven't gone through similar things to understand what it's like to be told you're abnormal just because you don't fit into society's idea of what normal is.

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Summary: Not that good
Review: This book was very hard to follow,I think the story line was pretty good but the book itself was hard to follow. The movie was better.

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Summary: The only time I would say the movie was better!
Review: I hate to say it, but for once the movie was better then the book. I feel bad giving someone's real experiences a mediocre review. It was interesting to read her thoughts and her perspective. I cannot believe that she was in this institution with other women who it seemed had much more serious mental health problems. I loved the feel of the decade and political turmoil briefly mentioned in the book. I did not like some of the vulgar descriptions and language. Overall, I am glad I read it (once), but it will not be a part of my library. The movie was good, but I guess movies are often better then real life. It is courageous for Kaysen to share this personal information with the world.

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Summary: Hard Times
Review: Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen is an interesting and truthful book; it is also a true story. It is interesting because it tells about the time Susanna spent in a psychiatric hospital. It is also very truthful because it tells how she feels about the hospital and what she goes through while she is there. I think this book was okay, but it could have been better. The reason that I like it is because the author described the characters very well. In 1967 an eighteen year old girl named Susanna Kaysen is sent to a psychiatric hospital for teenage girls. She is sent there after visiting doctors because she tried to kill herself. While there she becomes friends with a girl named Lisa. Lisa was very skinny and raggy looking, who nobody really likes because she always bosses everyone around. While there Susanna makes many new friends and learns many new things from the other girls there. When Susanna is in the hospital she goes through many hard times of not wanting to be there. I would recommend this book to mostly teenagers because they would understand what is going on throughout the book. If you like to read books that have to do with psychology then this would be a good book for you.

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Summary: pretty cool
Review: Susanna Kaysen at age 18 was sent to a mental hospital to 'rest' and stayed there for almost 2 years. In short chapters she describes other patients, doctors and strange oddities of living in a mental institution (Like ice cream trips). One of the more interesting facts of this particular institution are the famous patients who stayed there before her. This is a very quick read.. couple of hours is all you need. The movie is also very good and very much like the book.