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Editorial Review: I am so scared.
I feel like I'm silently screaming for help
and no one pays any attention of tries to hear me.
I can't control anything anymore.
It's all out to get me!
When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations -- especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control -- or can she?
Customer Reviews:
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
complete waste of paper, 2008-01-10
A chapter into it I knew that it was another "this is what happens" book by an unqualified writer. She has no expertise in the field and certainly has no personal experience because if she had she would never have written this shallow and inaccurate book.
2 of 6 found this review helpful:
Shameful, 2007-01-06
Beatrice Sparks is the author/editor of a serious of "anonymous" teen diaries. They are meant as "warnings" to children. In fact, they are not based on real diaries and the only one that actually was, she used about 10% of the journal entries and added a Satanic theme which horrified the family.
Now I am aware that children should be taught such things as drugs are bad, teenage pregnancy is not preferable, don't kill yourself etc. However, I take offense when presented in this manner. Children learn best from the truth not extreme propaganda. I also take offense that many libraries (especially school libraries) list this book as non-fiction, when in fact it is a work of fiction.
2 of 3 found this review helpful:
Give me a break, 2006-11-30
This book only got 2 stars because of the fact I actually finished it, I don't usually finish books.
This book is so annoying. No one with a real eating disorder is that happy about EVERYTHING, she happy about her parents, and some guy, and school, gymnastics and life...if you're so happy then why would you need an ED? Plus there is no way to get to 75lbs by just bulimia, maybe there is, but not the way she was going at it. There was no account of excessive excercise either. And getting so hungry she ate dog food???? Give me a break!
It was an OK book until it got to her "recovery" she was just too happy about that too. Read Diary of an Anorexic girl, I mean most people will fight recovery. This book is just so pathetic, she sounds like a 12 year old girl not a college freshman. I in no way could relate to this girl and usually I can. Thank god the book was short other wise I would have completely wasted my time.
10 of 14 found this review helpful:
The original James Frey , 2006-02-01
Brought to you from the author of Go Ask Alice... yeah, right.
This is probably not the first great hoax in publishing history, but I'm sure it's one of the most successful.
In spite of the fact that the actual source of this book has long been revealed and known, the publishing company continues to brazenly assert that this is a genuine document. It's as ridiculous as the continuing insistence that The Amityville Horror is a true story, too.
It should take any literate adult no more than one and one half pages to determine that this is neither the language nor the syntax of an adolescent/young adult.
It is a known fact that this shameless propoganda was the work of Beatrice Sparks, a Mormom activist who created an entire series of these books, in which children are destroyed by the evils of homosexuality, premarital sex, drug abuse, satanism, etc.
Without diminishing what positive impact this book, or any of the others, may have had on impressionable youth, and without condemning its good intentions (is anyone in favor of having AIDS?), these books are complete rubbish.
Like Mr. Frey, the intentions are not the point.
The point is that these books are being published as nonfiction.
And they are lies.
4 of 5 found this review helpful:
Kim: empty inside, 2005-10-17
In the book, the main character, Kim can't always take what is thrown
at her. She feels pressure to get a boyfriend and get into the right
college and compete in gymnastics. To help her feel better and in
control of her life, she eats and then feeling bad about it purges. Kim
sometimes feels that she is not as skinny as she needs to be for
competing in gymnastics. Her eating disorder gets out of control when
she leaves for college. When she gets to UCLA she feels very lost and
thinks the only thing she can control is her eating. During the book
Kim goes up and down with her eating. When she becomes sad, she eats
like she has been starved and then throws up. When she is happy the
throwing up pauses but not for long. When she can't handle something
food is her friend. In the book she struggles with fasting and
purging., The book is a little bit of a slow read but in the end you
will be happy about what she does to help herself. Sometimes you will
not be able to put down the book and others times you will think why do
I need to know this? It is the perfect book to take on a trip with you.
The book may help you never want to become anorexic. The way the story
is told will make you want to help Kim more than anything in the world.
Kim makes it seem like everything bad is happening to her and she can't
take it. In the end you feel hope for Kim and you will be glad you read
it.
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