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书很棒，内容值得一读
***First of all, a warning: as many other reviewers have mentioned, this book can tend to glorify anorexia for those who are susceptible, including lots of numbers, weight, calories, exact descriptions of disordered behaviors, etc. It also has extremely vivid and gruesome descriptions of self-harm. I would NOT recommend this for someone actually in the throes of an eating disorder, or someone who struggles with self-harm of any kind.***
This book is very dramatic in some ways, but also very predictable- anorexic almost dies, has epiphany at last minute, is saved and recovers in record time. Like many other readers, I felt the recovery chapter was much too trite and much too short. Lia experiences very serious medical complications, and ends up only in the hospital for ten days, with no mention of lasting problems that one would expect in someone so close to death from their eating disorder (in renal failure, respiratory failure, and heart failure according to the book). Patients usually must stay in the medical hospital for several weeks for refeeding purposes just for being at a low weight, never mind all of the complications that Lia would have had.
Then she goes to an inpatient eating disorder treatment center (that she has been to twice before) and magically recovers this time with no lasting effects mentally or physically. Completely unrealistic, but par for the course in any young adult novels I have read that deal with eating disorders. No one wants to talk about the years and years of hard work and introspection and learning to deal with life beyond the eating disorder- that is messy and uncomfortable, and who wants to think about that.
I also think that it would have been a much more interesting and more daring book if it focused on a main character with the much-less-glamorized eating disorder bulimia. There are so many memoirs and young adult novels out there about the experience of anorexia, and very few about bulimia. Yes, Cassie appears in the novel, but you never really get to "know" her beyond Lia's flawed perspective.
In addition, one part of the last chapter really, really irked me. It was talking about adult sufferers of eating disorders, and said casually (I suppose it was supposed to be poetic, also)- "One day they will blow away. No one will notice." As if the only people with eating disorders who matter are adolescents/teens. As if adults with eating disorders don't have people who love and care about them, and they also have no chance at recovery, and don't even work at recovery, apparently. I realize this is a young-adult novel, not an adult novel, so the focus is young adults. But to dismiss adult sufferers so completely casually was unrealistic and made me sad and frustrated.
I did give it two stars because of the characterizations of the characters besides Lia, especially Emma. Lia comes across as very troubled, but also very one-dimensional.
I've read this book more than a half-dozen times. When I first got it, I tore into it, excited by the author's name and the subject matter, that maybe someone had done justice to being disaffected and troubled in high school.
The trouble with this book is that it feeds into a lot of stereotypes: the privileged girls in all-white towns with eating disorders.
The language and writing are beautiful, at times quite a bit overwrought. But that can be taken as a teenage voice, which can usually be construed as both beautiful and overwrought.
The main character isn't quite likeable; the story isn't quite original. I wanted to know more about the dead girl. I wanted to know more about what made her tick.
The fact that the main character is anorexic, not the "lesser," "dirtier," "less glamorous" bulimic rubbed me the wrong way. The dead girl's story was much more interesting than the main character's, in a lot of ways, and not just because it was largely untold.
I'm not going to say I dislike the book but neither am I going to say I like the book. I am a freshman in high school and in the summer of seventh grade we had a summer reading list and we had to choose two books. I chose this book and I am MALALA. I felt that I read I am Malala a lot quicker and was more eager to read that compared to this book.
Wintergirls, although is not a bad book, it gets a tad bit boring in the first half. I read the first 1/2 in a week and the second half in one sitting. I felt that there wasn't any action until the last 40 pages which dissapointed me. I like the story line but I feel the actual story could've been a tad better
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