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Summary: INTENSE CHARACTER STUDY!
Review: Intense book.....reminds me of CS Back's PERAMBULATIONS- a male memoir! Prozac is a thread woven into this memoir also.....but it contains much more....check it out!
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Summary: Decent and gripping writing, of questionable long-term value
Review: This book is better than Wurtzel's later _Bitch_ because it's more focused. The author can write, and write well, but she seems to be more effective when she has a specific story to tell, rather than ranging around through pop sociology and culture. She also has a tendency to drop names and brag about her misadventures when it isn't terribly germane to her story.I did not find this account "whine-y." Wurtzel seems very honest and accurate about the hell of her mental turmoils. Having known a brilliant but unstable person or two myself, it wouldn't surprise me that Wurtzel may have experienced flashes of lucidity and searing honesty about her dilemmas and selfishness even at the time. Unfortunately, as engrossing a read as it makes, her experiences may be of doubtful clinical value since most depressed teenagers do not get into Harvard, cannot run away to Florida or London for a change of scene, or depend on wealthy friends to keep them in cocaine. The title makes no sense to me. Prozac doesn't even make an appearance until deep in the story -- page 296 of a 351-page account -- and Wurtzel has very little to say about the drug itself. Her remarks about "prozac nation" surface only briefly in the epilogue. Her original title, "I Hate Myself And I Want to Die," would have been more appropriate. Typographically, this book fares better than many another bestseller these days, although there seems to be a word missing from the sentence "The first order of business ... is finding a that will work" on page 296, and surely someone could have bothered to look up the proper spelling of Aleister Crowley (p. 270).
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Summary: Trite
Review: After forcing myself to finish this book, it still didn't redeem itself. The book was self-indulgent and whiney. I felt very little pitty for the auther. I, too, am depressed. I am also a self-injurer. There is a plethora of better books on such subjects. The subtitle of this book should have been "Young, Depressed, and Whining."
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Summary: the ultimate savior for a depressed person
Review: I would like to begin this review by remarking on how naive and ignorant people can be. When I say people, i am referring to the insensitive jerk who gave this book 1 and a half stars. I am not saying people are not entitled to their own opinions about books, but don't you think for a second that Wurtzel was a young woman who was just, "complaining about life". This just goes to show you how little the person who wrote the review knows about depression, and how they have no idea about how horrible it feels. Wurtzel did an unbelievable job with this book, which has given me a new found hope about my own recovery from the gruesome state we know as depression.
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Summary: A view into the realm of the depressed
Review: I loved this book this girl is a genius.. This book delves into the mind of a very depressed human being. I think this book is great for someone with depression or for someone who knows someone with depression.
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Summary: Just some thoughts
Review: I found "Prozac Nation" to be an interesting view of depression. Everyone's experience is different. I picked up this book originally b/c I am a young, depressed female living in America. I felt the need to go through someone else's experience and see if they made it to the other side. Ms. Wurtzel's anecdotes/story of her life dealing with depression was insightful into how one suddenly hits the bottom....without even knowing how they got there. I definitely could relate to that part of the experience. However, if you are still suffering from depression, like i am and was while reading this book, be prepared for some self-evaluation. This book will make you think about yourself and your life relating to your own bouts with sadness, despair, and of course depression. But more than anything, its about going on and surviving.
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Summary: Wurtzel is Brilliant
Review: And has become the writer she wanted to be. This book has in a way changed my outlook on life. I came upon it during a search for books on depression and youth in America for a research paper i was to write. Being clinically depressed, i was perhaps being masochistic in choosing to brood over statistics on teenage suicide, but even though this book did not fit in with my medical and psycology books that i planned to use for my paper, i took it with me anyway. To my surprise i was sucked in immediately. At first the morbid tone added to my feelings of inferiority, but as Wurtzel progressed, so did i, and as an added bonus, i was able to quote this eloquent author in my paper for a first hand account of dealing with depression. Her witty passages have inspired me to write, which i have always loved but have never been able to enjoy, being pessimistic and believing that i could never touch anyone, and it appears she has also slightly widened my range of music choice :)
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Summary: Elizabeth Wurtzel is a heroin
Review: Eliabeth Wurtzel is like my sister, guiding me threw my depression.Her book shows me that i can over come this depression, that keeps growing inside me like a virus. I would just like to say to Elizabeth, where ever you are I thank you for putting this novel together. If anything in the world this book has shown me, that I have a chance to succeed.
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Summary: be ready to be depressed
Review: at first glance the book Prozac Nation looks like it should be a faily good book- but I found this not to be true at all. I began the book and thought to myself, ok, maybe this is just an introduction type of thing and the story is soon to come. After making myself read almost all of the bookI finally gave up and put it away. In my opinion the book had no real story to it- all it was was a girl compliaing about her life and how bad it was, when to me, it seems like it wasn't that bad at all. The narriator tells of how depressing everything is, and for me, all this book accomplished was making me feel depressed myself. I would not recomend this book to anyone and if you're depressed and trying to find a book that will help you pull yourself together try The Greatest Miracle in the World- it's a great book, by Og Mandino
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Summary: Wonderful! A blessing for anyone struggling w/ depression
Review: If you arent depressed or know anyone who's depressed-why would you be reading this at all? If you have suffered from depression in your life, the author will seem like an old friend. I hated for this book to end. She became like a new friend to me. Her life & experiences are alot crazier than mine so I found her courage & strength to carry on very inspiring. She is a heroin because she gives words & feeling to the darkness rather than running from it which carries her through.(A very healing process) Too much of society fears dark, sad feelings & try to escape them anyway they can. Her honesty alone is pure beauty! A very hip,honest & at times humorus book! I only wish I knew where the author is today in her life. I hope there will be a second book.
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