Title: Oh, good grief
Product review: This book is awful. Like many of the other reviewers, I have also had an eating disorder--I struggled for 9 years with bulimia. I was looking forward to this book, but unfortunately, it really does reinforce the popular stereotype that people with eating disorders are rich, spoiled neurotics looking for attention from parents and classmates. Judging from Ms. Hornbacher's present-day interludes in the book, she's STILL on the same schtick. She beats the reader over the head with a nobody-knows-the-trouble-I've seen refrain, because of course, none of us can contemplate the pain she's gone through. But this is a young woman who was surrounded by loving, caring families, friends, etc...and brought her problems on herself. The way she glamorizes her eating disorder (and her "epic struggle") is not only irresponsible but disgusting. Wonder what follow-up book we'll get in the future.
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