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Apr 03, 2008, 07:46 AM
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I have the film of this, but haven't read the book. What interests me the most is the part where the main charactor says that she wrote herself back to sanity. I think the film skims that part of her journal, but wondered if the book talks about her journaling? Anyone read the book?
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Apr 03, 2008, 11:35 PM
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I have the book and I like it because it has actual pages from her chart in it. The book goes more in depth of her fight to sanity. I loved it and I love the movie.
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Apr 04, 2008, 01:18 PM
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Mouse, did you read Every Day Gets a Little Closer by Yalom? http://www.yalom.com/
It's he and a patient each journaling about what's going on in therapy at the same time and weird how "different' their views are, etc.
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Apr 07, 2008, 08:55 AM
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No I haven't ..I have read his other books, perhaps I'll look for that one too, thanks.
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Apr 07, 2008, 10:46 AM
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i liked the book better than the movie, though i liked the movie ok.
there isn't that much in the way of her journalling... some, but not a great deal. or maybe it is more that... the book (girl interrupted) kinda was her healing writing. janet frame is an interesting writer if you are into that. she was institutionalized in nz before the big deinstitutionalization movement. they told her was chronic. eventually released her and told her there was nothing wrong. she has novels... she has a 3 part autobiography 'an angel at my table' too. prozac nation is a similar kinda thing, too. |
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Apr 07, 2008, 10:50 AM
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i loove that movie now i want to read the book
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Apr 09, 2008, 04:34 PM
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is a pretty good book and movie
 i got the impression that the book is the journalling because in the film where there are screenshots of her writing, the stuff shes writing is whats in the book. i guess theres stuff left out too like pictures and things they thought were irrelevant to the film. lets start a campaign for susanna kaysen to publish her photocopied journals from back in the day! |
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Apr 13, 2008, 03:29 PM
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I've not read the book, but after my daughter and I watched the movie, we discussed it and didn't think the main character (Wynona Ryder) seemed very ill at all. We were surprised she went to a mental institution. She seemed really together compared to a number of the other patients there (like the Angelina Jolie character). I wonder if we would feel differently if we read the book and got the full story of her situation?
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