Hornbacher is intelligent, avoids cliches and above all, avoids making herself sound good when she can tell the truth instead. I would like to wrap up all loose ends in a bow and say, See? I wanted to sympathize, I really did, but by the end, I just kinda wanted to give her and her entire family one giant bitch slap. Tasteful bottle/presentation; I find the scent slightly unpleasant, but thankfully forgettable. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher 29,940 ratings, 4.01 average rating, 1,299 reviews Open Preview Wasted Quotes Showing 1-30 of 105 “You never come back, not all the way. All better now. Ok, I read this a long time ago, but it's still quite possibly the best book on eating disorders -- or even on adolescent mental illness -- that I've ever read. I gave this book five stars because it's a fantastic book. “You never come back, not all the way. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the memoir of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced … And that I am afraid is probably more real to life than most of the feel-good endings we're all used to reading where the "hero" conquers all. It kind of reminds me of Prozac Nation in the sense that the first couple chapters about her average middle-class childhood are pretty boring and pointless. She ends her memoir telling you she was no. Beautifully written and extremely intense, and well worth reading even if you have no interest whatsoever in the subject matter. Her critically acclaimed novel The Centre of Winter, about a family dealing with a suicide, would also be a good read! In 1998, at age twenty-four, Marya Hornbacher published the Pulitzer Prize–nominated, best-selling Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. auf Amazon.de. It was mercifully … In all of these respects, Wasted is a hugely significant book. Finden Sie hilfreiche Kundenrezensionen und Rezensionsbewertungen für Wasted: A Memoir auf Amazon.de. So this is why I picked Wasted up. What made me go “ugh” was every time society or someone reinforced Hornbacher’s idea that thinness equates greatness and value, and every time someone found it necessary to praise a woman’s weight loss. It was delicious. I may in fact have to break my no-more-book-buying-until-you-read-what-you-own pledge to get this book as there is nothing I want to read as much (other than Heart Berries which I want to read like crazy but didn’t want to read two memoirs back to back for review purposes) as this book right now. It is truly a tragic disorder. They make you feel as though you need to be punished for your abnormal, unhealthy devotion to thoughts about food and weight, because it's, Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), in 1998, when she was twenty-three. I had to say: I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife. for my thoughts on what I'm reading, as well as book recommendations. Hornbacher has since written another memoir about the years following publication of Wasted that deals with being diagnosed bipolar and her persistent addiction issues. I won’t get into too much detail to avoid falling into my own criticisms of the text. She ends her memoir telling you she was not magically "cured" and that she will probably have to deal with her disorder's struggles for the rest of her life, however long or short that might be, she has to take it one day at a time. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Thinking about society’s need for women to disappear also led me to feel at times like I was taking too much space, being too present, too overt in my self. Holy hell how could you not want to read that?! Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Audible Audiobook – Abridged Marya Hornbacher (Author, Narrator), Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio (Publisher) 4.2 out of 5 stars 274 ratings. There is a lot of hate for this book, and I get that. The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. Certainly, at times, she pulled no punches...yet at other times, still a bit under the sway of her disorder, she seemed to be bragging about her "successes" in the extremes of her eating disorder. In other ways (again, I'm sure unintentional on the author's part), I began to understand how eating disorders and personality disorders can often go hand in hand. What is it about this book that's so terribly hard to read? That is the insidious, cruel nature of eating disorders - they make you feel like you should be humiliated, simply for existing and taking up space in this world. I cannot give you an end. This book will haunt you, I promise you. This book is not just another book about eating disorders - far from it. Many find it very triggering. At the age of five, she returned from a ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed and cried — because she thought she was fat. [About avoiding physical contact]: the night after Duane and I played cards, he caught me. Hornbacher is intelligent, avoids cliches and above all, avoids making herself sound good when she can tell the truth instead. Memoir about a girl/woman snowing over her therapists/eating disorder [s]. It's the kind of book that people who have trouble staying motivated on diets should read. I’ve honestly said almost everything I wanted to say about this text. Honestly, I would not recommend this book. Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? I read this book when it was first released ---(its 'very' disturbing). The book was written when Hornbacher was 23, and goes on to say that although her disordered eating has become more manageable and healthy, her anxiety and body dysmorphia, as well as severe psychological pain and trauma, still remain. Marya used wit, intelligence and sharp words which will hit you hard and make you think twice before you skip your breakfast again. Signed up for the 2021 Goodreads Reading Challenge and looking for tips on how to discover and read more books? Oct 23, 2018 Richard Derus rated it liked it. I had to learn strange and delicious lessons, lessons too few women learn: to love the thump of my steps, the implication of weight and presence and taking of space, to love my body’s rebellious hungers, responses to touch, to understand myself as more than a brain attached to a bundle of bones. I am also a bit of a masochist; although I have never exactly had an eating disorder, disordered eating, and in particular intense body dysmorphia, did play a large role in my young adult life, causing me intense anxiety and pain. Eventually, at the age of 19, Hornbacher is hospitalized for a third time, near death and in denial. However keep reading because unlike Prozac Nation this book actually gets pretty good as time goes on and you get into the shocking rock-bottom details of her eating disorder. William Ballard - March 02, 2018 It's always fun to read Marya Hornbacher books I also knew that it was more than a little controversial, as it includes a lot of gruesome details about eating disorders, and has raised concerns about talking about eating disorders without giving “tips and tricks” to those suffering. In many ways, it helped me understand how eating disorders work. It is jarring, and disturbing to read how easily Hornbacher was able to hide what she was going through. The plot is based on different events of Maryas Life which relate to her eating … Using anything other than stars to rate this book felt like a distasteful joke, too irreverent even for me. Bulimic since she was 9 years old, anorexic since she was about 15, the author reveals how and why women with these eating disorders can be helped and, most of all, how long it takes for that help to take hold. And I just held on for dear life… One might, in fact, over a few years, begin to avoid [physical contact] like the plague, begin to claim such absolute ownership over one’s own body that contact itself… begins to seem a threat. As an anorexic I found the book great because it had tips in it. However, I think that the potential it has to cause distress and influence a person’s (particularly women’s) eating habits and view of themselves. I guess I would recommend this book if you specialize in disordered eating in a professional setting, and were looking for some insight. 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