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Book Review of Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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I hate getting a book and not finishing it but this book was so awful that I did just that! Incredibly pretentious, whiny and just plain weird ... I feel like someone edited all the words because Hornbacher's true personality barely showed through. Quotes all over the place like it was an academic paper. Her mother did not breast feed her as a child because she felt like she was being devoured??? What the hell is that even supposed to mean? My sister was home for Thanksgiving so I read her the funny/tragic disaster out loud for a while. Now that she has left, the book is going right out to someone else. Yuck.