Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen
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Author: Susanna KaysenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-04-19
ISBN: 0679746048
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Vintage
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- ISBN13: 9780679746041
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Book Reviews of Girl, Interrupted
Book Review: Amazing book
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved the book based on the horrible movie directed by this Hollywood idiot named Jim Mangold. I love how well-written this book is. It seemed beyond me at times, but I thought it was one of the most amazing books I'd ever read. I enjoyed it. It was facasiting and interesting. I liked that it was about a real-life young woman who was taken away from her life. I can relate to that because I was too. Susanna Kaysen wasn't a bad person, just horribly misunderstood. She was a girl who lived in her own reality, she thought outside the box. They didn't understand her, so they committed her. I guess I had no idea how powerful this book really is. I hated the movie. It was a overly dramatic, Hollywoodized verison of real-life. The movie is total garbage. it's bad. The patients act like kids, they skip and dance and carry around baby dolls and act like kids and then there's weirdo Whoopi Goldberg who is strange and there's no black nurses in 1960s hospitail's. It's not even historicly accurent. It's impossible because black people didn't have the kind of freedom now that they had in the 1960s. Winona Ryder played Susanna and let's face it: she's a Hollywood actress, not Susanna Kaysen. The whole time your watching the movie, your thinking this isn't Susanna-this Winona. Angelina Jolie plays Lisa and gives a good performance but Lisa wasn't as angry or evil or cruel or bad as they made her out to be. Lisa wasn't the villian and she wasn't a sociopath. They made that up. Susanna's disease-there is no such thing. They made that up too. The patients at the place weren't her friends-so when in the movie when Susanna is leaving and says "Those girls were my friends" and there's a bunch of spastics staring out of a looming sky just laugh or ignore it. They weren't all her friends ether. People aren't like that, relationships aren't like that. That's over the top and unrelastic and exgaratted. It's not true. The only friends Susanna had was Georgia and Lisa Rowe Cody. And maybe Daisy. I guess before her demise. I feel sorry for that poor girl. there's laxative humor in the book which is gross. I hated it. I liked Susanna's writing style, funny and bold and desperctive and real and honest. I loved how she describes the famous psychiatric hospitail- it's amazing. I feel like I can see it myself. But the film is crap. The worst movie of the year. No, of the decade. A couple of decades. It's trash. The whole thing is glum and unhappy and it doesn't even end on an uplifting note. The book is better and more true to life. Lisa was never strapped to a bed ether and she didn't make Daisy kill herself. Nobody can make someone commit suicide, that's impossible. That loser took her beloved best-selling book and turned it into a crap movie. She should have never sold him the copyright. I love the end where Lisa and Susanna run into each other again. That's more positive and Lisa is a mom with a kid and goes to temple and that helps. It's more uplifing and Susanna is out of that place too and married and a writer. I don't blame people for finding this fancasting. It is. It's interesting and I guess it kind of became an obbession. I saw the movie twice and hated it. I read the book and I loved it. It's a good story and it stands on it's own ground and it is unique. Writing feels better when I am writing about something I care about. I loved this amazing book. Susanna is a cool person and it's amazing she surivced something like that and still walks around there to this day with a smile on her face. It's amazing what young women can survice and thrive and be alive after being put through pain and suffering for two years. What an amazing and interesting story. And it's real. Wow.
Summary of Girl, Interrupted
In the late 1960s, the author spent nearly two years on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility. Her memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perceptions, while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. "Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight."--Boston Globe.When reality got "too dense" for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysen's lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant.
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