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Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
 

Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)

by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era. (read review)

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Cheryl S
  • Rated 5 stars

“This is my favorite memoir of all time. It has been a number of years since I read it, but it really helped me to feel less alone and misunderstood in my own battle with depression. Maybe it´s because the author and I are the same age and went through some similar experiences, but I could totally relate to what she was going through and it helped me to understand some of my own challenges with "the dark times".”

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Bannefin
  • Rated 1 stars

“Having heard rave reviews of this book for years I opened it, full of expectation and hope. I was sorely (and I do mean sorely from the headaches that ensued while trying to get through these banal pages) disappointed in this drivel. It is nothing more than an angst-ridden, melodramatic love note from a teenager to herself. This is one of those diaries that should have been burned when one graduated from adolescent drama.”

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  • Rated 3.615607 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • SilverNeurotic

    silverneurotic said:

    “I didn't find Wurtzel to be selfish or self centered. When you are depressed, you are inward and you tend to only be able to focus on yourself because of the illness. The sluttiness, the drinking and drugs...that's just a form of self medication because she just wasn't getting the kind of help she needed from any outside sources.”

    posted Tuesday, August 21 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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