Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.) by Marya Hornbacher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)
Book Review: Everything an eating disordered person thinks
Summary: 5 Stars
I read 'Wasted' in one day, once i had picked it up, it was actually impossible for me to leave it. It is one of those books where opening it at any page offers you compulsive reading, and it is true to say that Hornbacher offers a very frank and blunt view of something that, instrinctly, is very complicated. The book did almost inspire me, however, and i do not believe that her desire to help others and stop them from doing what she did, is fulfiled. Having already suffered from bulemia for a year before reading, i found the book full of new ideas, lies and ways of keeping the lifestyle i had, maintained. This is clearly unintentional, but the descriptions of emotion, power, simplicity, ease and almost the glamourisation of the eating disordered existence, would intrigue even those who had never considered it before. I am certainly not advising anyone to miss out on this book, it is an amazing read, words cannot explain how capturing it is until you actually pick it up, but i am advising people to be careful about what they take from it. My congratualtions do go out to Marya Hornbacher for finding exactly the right words for feelings, actions and emotions for things that only people who suffer like her would understand, and so far, i was unable to find. The connection you can make with what she is saying is formidable, amazing, and shocking in some parts because you really believe your the only one fighting and suffering. Marya Hornbacher shows you brutally how wrong you were. An excellent read.Book Review: beautiful, poignant and melancholic read
Summary: 5 Stars
When I began reading this book I thought it was quiet slow and hard to get into. But after the first chapter I was instantly hooked and could not put it down. Just as Mayra says she was addicted to starvation, I became addicted to her story of pain. Although I have never suffered from an eating disorder as severe as her, I understood her fear of eating and a desire to want to waste away. But her book is about more than an eating disorder, its about afeeling of disconnection with the rest of the world, the fakeness of everyday life and wanting to escape. I recommend this book to anyone.Book Review: Excruciating and excellent read
Summary: 5 Stars
Having a fascination with body dysphoria and cultural clashes of all sorts that are fought on internal terrain, I totally loved 'Wasted.' A deeply revealing book about Hornbacher's pain, lies, family discord, messy bodily functions and lost years, 'Wasted' holds the interest of those into voyeuristic despair, much as 'Prozac Nation' did for me.But it's not just some dreary recovery tome. Hornbacher does not pull her punches about the vomiting, the starving, the mental breakdowns and the twisted relationships she grapples with. You really feel like you're there. Also, her research is extensive. I particularly found useful her use of common psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to eating disorders. She critiques anorexia/bulimia myths, medical responses to these disorders and assumptions the 'average person' makes about eating disorders, without losing her subjective voice. This is an incredible achievement.
I have to admit I have become rather fixated by the book. I dip in and out of it. I am myself a bit overweight and don't relate to the eating disorder lifestyle personally, but what it draws out in me is the personal experience of the cultural struggles women face, written large on our bodies.
It's a must. Truly.
Book Review: a book that everyone should read....
Summary: 5 Stars
Wasted, i feel is a book that everyone should read... it is brings home some of the realities assiciated with eating disorders in a tasteful manner. not written for any other purpose than to inform.the first time i read it, it was aborrowed book, i now own a copy and encourage everyone i know to read it.
Book Review: Please DON'T read this book
Summary: 1 Stars
To any one that unfortunately is suffering from an eating disorder I beg you NOT to read this book as it will do you more harm than good. I had just started being bulimic when I started reading this book and I'm afraid to say I began using it as a guide book on how to be bulimic. The graphicness the author goes into ,makes anyone think she is basically giving you a step by stpe guide on how to be bulimic. Food doesn't have to control one's life and we should appreciate that we have it in our fridge and cupboards at home - there are some people in the world that are desperatly searching through bins in the street for something to eat as they are so starving. When I usually finish a book I give it to a charityy shop - I burnt this book instead as I think it would be a crime for anyone to read it. Marya Hornbacher isn't stoping people from "going where she did" - she's making them!!