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marlamd's review against another edition
It's not often I like a movie more than a book but this book was very thin on story and spent more time explaining what the different mental illnesses were. I wanted the characters to have more depth--I didn't know enough about them to care when one committed suicide or was sent to max.
bthadifields's review against another edition
5.0
Compré este libro buscando representación de cierto trastorno y salí con el corazón en un puño y conmovida a más no poder. Ha sido una experiencia religiosa.
nichebooks's review against another edition
5.0
I would read it again, as uncomfortable as it made me at times - both because it was too close to home and too scary and foreign to think of slipping out of your own reality and into another. Not that it was a scary book. It wasn't. It was an interesting look at Kaysen's experience in the psych ward of the 60s and her character disorder, and I particularly liked that the narrator isn't particularly reliable - even though she still is, you don't have to wonder if she's making it all up, just some details that she questions throughout the book. She recognizes her unreliability and weaves it into the plot.
yusraaaa200's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.75
kadinelouise's review
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
2.5
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Addiction, Suicide, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Self harm, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide attempt
victorsbookshelf's review
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm