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Summary: Thank you, Elizabeth Wurtzel!
Review: I read this novel during my worst period of depression when I was diagnosed and started taking Prozac. I was relieved to know that I wasn't alone in my loneliness and fright. Elizabeth Wurtzel had been there. Just seeing what I was going through in someone's autobiography took away some of my fright. I loved this novel and recommend it to young college girls suffering from depression especially if they go to school in Cambridge! The war on depression can be won especially with a great psychiatrist, medication, and a willingness to get better.
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Summary: why on earth?
Review: i cant really fathom why on earth Wurtzel would want to write this book. unfortunately she is so irritating that you get bored of her really quickly; shes not some friend of mine in trouble, shes a bint who wrote a book which sold very nicely. we may all slit our arms but we dont write a memoir in the blood. i felt sorry for those who were close to her and felt helpless, they couldnt put down this book and go do something more interesting instead.
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Summary: A must read that horrifies and entrances in its prose.
Review: Prozac Nation is a book that not only needs to be read but also needs to be fully consumed. Wurtzel asks for nothing less. Her compelling story of her struggle through the hells of depression and suicide horrify the reader and takes the reader THERE with her on her trip to hell. Reading Prozac Nation is uncomfortable and it is supposed to be. Wurtzel leaves nothing unsaid or silenced thereby giving voice to depression which for many sufferers out there is a godsend. The voice of depression needs to be heard and Wurtzel is screaming with her powerful memoir that will not be easily forgotten and shouldn't be.
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Summary: Charming and intense. Sadly, it lacks self introspection.
Review: The history is written with passion and some sort of animal devotion. Its content allows a complete grasp about the meaning of personal suffering and self struggle to belong to a certain social convention. Notwithstanding, the conclusion is superficial. Eventhough the author suffers an evident affective dissorder, it is vague to suggest that Prozac is the solution. The author's chemical imbalance has been obviously produced by a reckless life full of ilegal drugs and a incomprehensive desire to abandon the true self. Elizabeth's wish to be part of the Harvard`s "creme",a group that she envies, contradicts her own perception about her place in society. That contradiction, evidences her insecurities hidden passionately with all sort of drugs and misconduct. At the end of the book, the feeling we have is that the author needs lots of therapy and self analysis, being Prozac, if so, only a mechanism to provide sedative to the brain. Notwithstanding,the merit of the book resides on its ilustrative description of the human struggle to be alive and the ups and downs, to which in different levels, we are all exposed in this life.I congratulate the author, but warn about her conclusions, which are complacient and wrong. JCSA.
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Summary: Wonderful memoir that hits home
Review: I read this book last year, right after it came out and way before it went mainstream. A friend of mine also suffering from depression found it at a local library. This book is filled with Wurtzel's personal story of her fight with depression. I absolutely could not put the book down. I am going through everything she was minus only the drug addictions. Thankfully I'm not there. I'm 20 years old, so this book really hit home for me...She is young as well. I recommend this book to anyone who has or is suffering from depression, especially clinical depression. You'll find it very insightfull. I am not alone in my struggle and Elizabeth Wurtzel helped me realize that!!
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Summary: the perfect book
Review: As touching and moving as anything I've ever read. Just wish this book had been in print when I was seventeen.
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Summary: Oh grow up
Review: I'm Elizabeth Wurtzel's age, and I even went to school with her (though I didn't know her). I also suffered from depression for years, but I never behaved as badly as she did, or whined publicly about the unfairness of life. I think I learned how to get treatment for my illness and to grow up and take responsibility for my actions. Clearly, all she learned was to market her misery.Sylvia Plath took her experiences with mental illness and turned it into a funny and provocative novel that poked fun at the heroine's self-seriousness at the same time it questioned the conventions of that heroine's society. Wurtzel's book seems completely devoid of any such aesthetic distance or self-irony--it's as if someone were paid to whine on paper and thus make hundreds of thousands of dollars off young people identifying with her narcissistic romanticization of her privileged background and her sorrows.
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Summary: face yourself
Review: know yourself,make yourself,we are all the same,all with dealing some problems,all trying to reach the goodness..says the writer,so do I
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Summary: Very well done, and amazing!!!!!!!!!
Review: Thank you!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: so tuching
Review: i loved this book... elizabeth wurtzel really made you feel as if you were right there with her as she experenced her depression. i too suffer from depression and i can relate to everythign she said. I recomand anyone to read this weather you be a depressive yourself of know someone who is!
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