Girl Interrupted

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Summary: very good!
Review: highly recommended - - much better than the movie

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Summary: I've been there... Almost
Review: I am 13, yet already threatened with in-patient care. I am diagnosed Pathological Liar--like Georgina in the movie--, clinically depressed, and I fantasize too often of suicide. I would never have the courage to push down though; I find suicide stupid, and for the weak, but I have much compassion for those who truly consider it, and I'm there if they need a shoulder to lean on--or, more often, cry on.

Anyway, back to the book. She wrote this reflecting on how she was in the "hospital" when she was 18. No criticism should be said about this book; this book is merely opinions and essays. If you don't like it then fine, dont read it; but don't whine about not liking because you want other people to not read it, for you feel it's a waste of time.

Susanna Kaysen is one of the best, if not THE best, authors I know of; and I am quite a reader. She expresses her emotions in ways that I've never seen in anyone... anything. Five stars go to this well deserving book about life on the not-so-glamorous side, the life many must face.

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Summary: A Quick, Fascinating Read, but no thinking involved!
Review: Before I read "Girl, Interrupted" I first saw the movie, this is a bad thing because the movie is completely different and actually a little better than the book.

I thought Susanna Kaysen was witty at times and able to get her point across about living in a mental hospital for two years but I guess the question that I kept asking myself was "why?" Why did she not like her parents? Why does her first marriage fail? Why does she bond with Lisa? Etc. She provides some insight into her psyche, but not enough in my opinion since I really wanted to know more about her interactions with Lisa, Georgina, and everyone else and instead her audience gets a very nice summary of events without much analysis.

So I expected a little too much for this book, don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed it, just wanted more details and analysis.

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Summary: Wonderful Portrayal
Review: The year's 1967 and 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, the book's main character, begins to think that life and reality is just plainly too dense and soon admitts her self, voluntarily, to a mental hospital. She ends up staying there for two years. The book exhibits photocopies of some of her forms. She's shortly labeled as a borderline personality. Throughout the book, Susanna talks about the mind, neurology and her own take on psychology. Her thoughts on hospital-life are very comical. Twenty-five years after her hospital stay at McLean Hospital, Susanna speaks of her doctors, fellow patients and staff at the hospital.

Recommended.

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Summary: The thinking-man's subway book
Review: This is a good book.

There's not much else I could say that wouldn't belittle the writing or the writer, so I prefer to keep it at that.

It's a good book.

Despite the fact that it's been made into a movie.

It's still good.

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Summary: Interesting psychological read
Review: GIRL, INTERRUPTED is an autobiographical book written by Susanna Kaysen, who was institutionalized at age 18. She writes of her time spent there, and each chapter is either a separate essay on another aspect of her time there, or an essay talking about how that time of her life affected her present life (25 years later).

As a study on borderline personality disorder, it was an interesting read. However, as a book I found it a little disjointed. I also didn't feel anything for the author, because of the way she wrote the book. I find I could feel something for the main character if the book is written well. but i couldn't feel a thing for the characters in this book.

Susanna goes into detail the different patients at the hospital where she stayed for nearly 2 years. Some of the scenes described are very intense. What i found interesting is that she was narrating what she experienced first hand. This is the story of a part of her life that changed forever who she was and what she was meant to become.

I give it 3 stars because although as a whole it was not what I considered a great book, each chapter was interesting unto itself and kept me wanting to read more. But i felt a bit let down when I finaly finished the book. I hope the movie was better than this.

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Summary: So true, so strong, so painful...
Review: Reading Girl, Interruped is not an easy experience, but it's a very good one indeed. Anyone who has wondered 'what the hell am I doing here?' or 'it's only me or the world went Crazy?' will easily indentify him or herself to Susanna.
Plus, there is all the late 60's madness surruonding every single page. It's not hard to close your eyes after reading some pages and just listen -inside your mind- songs by Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Janis Joplin ... and so many others, becase they get alive along with the book.
I suggest to anyone who liked this book to move on to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, because this book is as good and deep as Girl, Interrupted.

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Summary: Different
Review: The book Girl Interrupted is a book that is very different from the rest. The main character, Lisa, is an eighteen-year old girl, who has a very complex mind. She was hospitalized for eighteen months during the sixties for a borderline personality disorder. The author had really descriptive and realistic details about what Lisa was going through. Then closer to the end of the book when Lisa was getting much better the author starting picking up the pace of the book slowly. If you would like to read this book and understand it and really like this you should really be interested in psychology and how the minds of others work. If your not then you might not understand this book and you would find it confusing and pointless. This book is very peculiar and unique because not to many books tell about what goes on in other peoples minds, especially minds that are in need of psychiatric help.
The author used a very casual type of language and a lot of street language and swearing. Her style of writing is different too because the book started out real slow and told millions of details about every little thing. Then the pace started to pick up once you were getting into the meat of the book. At the end of the book she was flying through the rest of her life after she got out of the hospital. About 7 out of 10 people liked this book that I saw on other posted reviews. I personally found it to be an all right book. It interested me to know what was going on in that persons mind because her mind thought a little different than the average persons' mind. It wasn't my favorite because I didn't like certain parts of the book where the author would talk about things that you really didn't have to know. This book was interesting and confusing at the same time but it was worth reading once!

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Summary: could hardly finish it
Review: i was very intrested in reading this book because it hink its a very important subject. still, i couldnt connect to the book. it left my with no feelings for the charectars. i could hardly finish the book. it was very unreadable. i know its a true story but still its not intresting

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Summary: Review of Girl, Interrupted
Review: Girl, Interrupted is an autobiography about a teenage author in the 60's who was admitted into a mental hospital for a borderline personality disorder. We found this book to be an interesting story of the psychology of the mind. We felt that this book was well-written, serious, and, at times, ironically funny. As teenagers, we found that the author's mind was revealed in a dark labirynth of a teenage mind. We recommend this book to anyone from teenage girl-age to adults, or to anyone who is interested in the challenge of the woman's mind. One thing to keep in mind is that the book is written out of order, which makes it a bit confusing, until you realize that that is part of her disease. This gives the book a unique flair and an interesting view of her disorder. We highly recommend it.