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Title: Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff, J. Smith-Cameron ISBN: 0-694-51790-9 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Five stars isn't enough
Comment: I read alot (close to fifty books so far this year) and in all that time I have only read a handful of books that affected me as much as this one. I was greatly moved by this story. I think Ms. Medoff really dug down deep and drew from her well of experience for this novel. I don't think she could have written a book this good without having some experience and a deep knowledge about Anorexia and its effects on a family. I was moved to tears many times by this painfully honest novel, but just as many times I was laughing out loud at the author's acerbic wit.
Frannie Hunter is 26 years old and she is just part of majorly dysfunctional family. She can't seem to hold onto a job or an apartment and is forced to move back home and live with her parents. Frannie's mother, Marsha is obsessed with food, her body image and that of her children's not to mention the fact that she is also addicted to tranquilizers. Frannie's father, David is in the midst of a career crisis, he watches all the cooking shoes on T.V. and instead of talking with his family to find out what is really going on, he perfers to do the daily word jumbles and not say much to anyone. Shelly, Frannie's younger sister is a gifted graduate of Cornell, she wants to attend Harvard Law mainly to make her mother happy and she is the Anorexic one. Perhaps she is forced into that as well to please her mother or she just adopts this pattern of behavior because that is all she knows. Although this is a novel about Anorexia and other obsessive behaviors, it is also about women's relationships to men, sex and other women. It is the relationship between Frannie and Shelly that was the most heartwrenching for me. It is one that I am still thinking about even though I have finished the book and one that I am not likely to forget. Readers who loved this book as much as I did might also want to try a book about a man's struggle with drug addiction and that is: A MILLION LITTLE PIECES by James Frey. Both of these books are unforgettable!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Jillian Medoff is great! I can't wait for more from her!
Comment: Hunger Point is a hearbreaking story following the life of Fran, a sarcastic and funny character whose mother is obsessed with food, sister is bullimic and in a hospital, and father is sort of out-of-it...Well, anyways, Fran has to find a job (she's a waitress, but she's looking for a serious job). She keeps getting distracted, though. Shelly (her sister) dies unexpectedly from a drug overdose, her mom is cracking up, her parents are fighting, her grandpa is dying...and she falls in love. She is baffled by her sister's death, and finds herself searching for answers, sometimes getting ones she doesn't understand. I've read this book (listened to, whatever) twice, and each time was very satisfying
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a book I'll keep
Comment: I thought this book was ok. I think it falls into the "neurotic" female genre. I was disappointed with the development of the story, it didn't seem pulled together. I would have liked to see more character development earlier in the novel. I was disappointed to see Frannie's story seem weak. I don't find her to be a very redeeming character and found myself annoyed that she allowed other characters in the story to define her.
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Title: Diary Of An Anorexic Girl : by Morgan Menzie ISBN: 0849944058 Publisher: W Publishing Group Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher ISBN: 0060930934 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig, Joy Peskin, S. November ISBN: 0141305800 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron ISBN: 0446358657 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 07 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: My Sister's Bones by Cathi Hanauer ISBN: 0385317042 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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