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Purge: Rehab Diaries (2009)

by Nicole J. Johns(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1580052746 (ISBN13: 9781580052740)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Seal Press

review 1: Purge was an amazing book!! The bright pink of the cover and scribble across the front had me intrigued. Personally, I have never struggled with an eating disorder but I wanted to find out more about EDNOS and how eating disorders affected people. The author presents the story in the perspective of journal entries during her stay in a rehabilitation clinic for patients with eating disorders. I could not put the book down...it was so good! The book was very informative and well written!
review 2: I wish I could give this book a 3.5, because 3 seems too low but 4 seems too high. I guess I'll just have to live with stating that here.Strengths: Jones is incredibly candid, which I appreciated. She tells everything the way it was, without trying to glorify or dramati... moreze the disorder or the experience and without filling in blanks with imagined scenarios. It seems that she doesn't care if she offends, upsets, or impresses anyone in her writing, which makes it feel much more honest. Overall, it's a very intriguing look into the difficulties that the eating-disordered person may struggle with while going through rehab.Weaknesses: I felt like the book lacked detail quite often, that Jones touched on but mainly skirted a lot of issues instead of delving into them, and that there wasn't a whole lot to tie it all together. It is almost tantalizing how she hints at the things which happened to her and the things/ways she thought, but doesn't explain very much. The ending was disappointing, as well.Overall, I think I liked it, but I didn't come away with an overly impressed feeling. less

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