ouischbabe reviewed on 8/28/2014 + 9 more book reviews

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This is the most infuriating book I have ever read. Elizabeth Wurtzel is nothing more than a drama queen, attention starved cry-baby. All her "suicide attempts" are carefully calculated ploys to garner attention and sympathy when the people in her life dare to focus on something besides HER, even if only for a brief moment. She was young, thin, and pretty. Her admittedly destitute mother scrimped and saved to send her to the best private schools in New York City, and then to Harvard for college (not to mention the years of therapy), and Elizabeth repays her by cutting classes and wishing she was somewhere else... even though she kicked and screamed to gain admission to these places! She has melt downs in the middle of classes and parties so that people would look at her. Her depression is real, but it is vastly overshadowed by her self-absorption. And how is she rewarded in the end? She gets a book deal, and they eventually made it into a movie! And she still cant get over how unfair life was to her. Don't read this book unless you want to spend the whole time alternating between annoyance and boredom.

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