Rating: 
Summary: Girl Interrupted
Review: In the book Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen a young girl at the age of eighteen is put into a mental institution. It is actually a confessional book about herself. She is sent there because of a former suicide attempt. The doctors had diagnosed her with a character disorder. Susanna is deeply depressed and feels hopeless. She was only supposed to stay at McLean hospital for a few weeks, but those weeks turned into two long years. While she was there she met many different and intresting types of people. Pretty much all she ever did was go to therapy, watch TV, and sit around and talk with her friends. There are twists and turns and many unexpected things happen throughout the book. I recommend this novel because it is suprisingly funny and it is quite astonishing.
Rating:
Summary: Girl, Interrupted
Review: This book is about a girl named Susanna. It is written by Susanna Kaysen. At the beginning of the story she is put in a taxi and sent to a mental hospital. The name of the hospital is McLean. She meets lots of teenage girls named Lisa, Polly, and Georgina. Georgina was Susanna's roommate. Susanna did not like one thing about the hospital. It was the rooms. They were really tiny with high, small windows and bare mattresses. If you walked in the hallway you could see people either sitting or laying on the mattresses. To enter or exit there were two locked two doors. Lisa was one of the popular girls in the hospital. She did not like the hospital. She tried to run away beacause she was bored. The problem was that she always got caught by one of the nurses. The nurses there were really nice. Later on they met this patient named Valerie. She was a fun person to be with. So everybody liked her. Eventually everyone except Valerie were sent back home. Susanna was the first person to get married after she got out of the hospital. Later Georgina gets married too. They both keep in touch with each other. For a while they lived in North Cambridge and visited each other. Then Susanna moved to Boston with her husband. I recommend this book to someone who likes to know every single detail about other people. This book has so many characters. Although it is a good book. I suggest that everyone should at least try reading this book.
Rating: 
Summary: A McLean Adventure
Review: In Girl,Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Kaysen goes back to 1967 to relive the McLean Hopital. The hospital was a maximum-security crazy house. Kaysen had gone for her weekly session with her doctor and was plopped in a taxi to McLean. When Kaysen got there she quickly became friends with all the warders. They spent their time in the ward by torturing the nurses and absorbing the television. Kaysen realizes that she cannot be in the ward forever, she soon gets a job after being turned down many a times. She then got married. To get through the years the girls came up with many methods to entertain themselves. They would harass the nurses everyday just to see them open every lock on the ward, when they found nothing wrong the nurse would go back in the office and the cycle would happen again. But most of the girls time was spent smoking and consuming TV. I would greatly recommend this book to people over the age of thirteen. The subject of what goes on in a mental hospital is not a subject one reads about everyday. It made me understand life in a different perspective. The strong characters added to the memoir greatly. Just the idea that Kaysen could go back into such a deep, dark past was amazing. Through the pains and problems of the girls, their stay a McLean made an unexpectedly funny memoir and it was written with the greatest detail possible.
Rating:
Summary: The Borderline
Review: The story GIRL INTERRUPTED is a story about a girl named Susanna Kaysen who goes to a mental institution in 1967. The doctor diagnosed her with borderline personality diorder. Her therapist said that she had to spend at least two years in the hospital. Susanna met a lot of new friends at the hospital. She was usually with one in perticular. Her name was Lisa, and Lisa was a bad influence on Susanna. They get into a lot of trouble together and this was not helping Susanna progress in her thrapy or problems. Lisa had been in the hospital for many years and there was nothing the doctors could do with her. She just kept getting worse and worse. Although Susanna had fun with Lisa she knew she had to seperate from her. When Susanna was away from Lisa she got through her problems and was out of the hospital within a matter of eight-teen months. I recommend this book very much. I enjoyed reading it and thought it was very exciting and thrilling. It made me think about all the problems that so many people have. It was a wonderful novel and I hope many more people get the opportunity to read it
Rating:
Summary: Wished It Had More To It.
Review: I really liked this book,it is a very honest account of dealing with depression(I've been there,so I know..) I just wish the book was longer,I guess I was expecting it to be like the film,which was great. A rather sketchy but affecting story.
Rating: 
Summary: Girl, Interrupted
Review: Kaysen writes a great representation of the dark jumble inside her head as she does about the hospital routines, the staff, and the patients. All the people (celebrities, patients, and staff) are memorable such as: Ray Charles, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Susan (thin and yellow), and Daisy (laxatives and chicken). Susan Kaysen is able to tell her story with humor and irony. Moreover, it is a straightforward account of the inmantes' experiences, capturing their fears, their quirky bravery and their solidarity as misfit teens. This is a great book for young adults which may be experiencing much of the same.
Rating:
Summary: Girl Interrupted, By Susanna Kaysen
Review: It was 1967, when 18 year old Susanna Kaysen started her 18 month stay at McLean Mental Hospital. The book Girl Interrupted talks about Ms. Kaysen's life change experiences at McLean. A thought provoking novel; lined with dark comedy. All the way from her searching for answers to the strangest questions, to her very interesting and humor satisfying fellow patients. Even in the dark areas Ms. Kaysen finds light. I feel the book is amazing, due to it's extreme frankness with mental health. The order of the book can be confusing, but the rest is great. I greatly reccomend this book.
Rating:
Summary: Frighteningly resonant of my own Interruptions
Review: The style - depersonalised, disjointed, detatched - conveys volumes greater than the words themselves. Too many authors glamorise their experiences of mental distress. Susanna Kaysen describes the truth, the hell ...
Rating:
Summary: good in some points, fuzzy in others
Review: I'm left feeling like I've only been told part of her story, and while the part she told was often quite good, the part I feel the book lacks strikes me as even more important, and I feel she got fuzzy when she approached it Good points: interesting, witty, clear portrayal of life inside a mental institution and inside the head of a mental patient; she very clearly delineates the different characters, each has an obvious and unique personality and their interactions are interesting; also, shows how vicious and unhealthy and non-restorative mental health professionals and overall life on a ward can be Bad points: I felt the one character whose character was NOT nearly so well explained as the others or explored from a wide perspective was hers; it's like, she left that to all the diagnosing and hospital note pages, but she never seems to really hit on the core of who she is in the same way she characterizes everybody else. Also, I don't know why she didn't get into it, but she barely even touches upon her family issues, it's like, they're all but non-characters, and I think that's a major minus for the book. Along these lines, by calling the book "Girl, Interrupted" and saying her "musical" life was interrupted at eighteen, it implies her life (which at that point was her family life) was okay and that she was really the victim of the mental health field. Well, I would agree that she was the victim of the mental health field, but I would say they were actually the secondary victimizers - the real ones were her family, and by her not exploring that aspect in the slightest she simply lets them off the hook, and confuses the reader as to who's primarily at fault. Even a few clear paragraphs or pages of scenarios about the sick truth of her family (and don't tell me they're not!) would have improved this book immensely. Finally: it strikes me that lacking the real oomph to explore her family issues and out them, kaysen turns the tone to a sort of semi-comedy, almost like she's making another futile protest against unlistening nurses and doctors.
Rating:
Summary: Girl, Interrupted nothing like movie
Review: I was a little disapointed to find out that the book was really nothing like the movie. Which goes to show that you should read the book before going to the movie. I kept thinking about the characters in the movie and trying to compare them in the book but once again the movie had great amounts of hollywood drama. The book was ok a bit confusing at times but otherwise it was an OK book I finished it in one day in that shows anything? Maybe I didnt like it so much because I was expecting different things.
| 
