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    aShinyGumWrapper: I think a book that goes into such painstaking detail about daily life with anorexia or bulimia is likely going to be read only by girls with these di... more »
    lisas: Well I don't know about anyone else, but after I read When Rabbit Howls I totally developed multiple personalities. After the Man who Mistook his Wife... more »
    librariesare4lovers: It's kinda of a chicken/egg situation. What came first the ED or being exposed to the book about ED. I think it totaly depends on one's own predispost... more »
    Shamrockette: Books like this will only impact girls if they're already prone to having an ED. But that doesn't mean a book about ED can't impact a healthy girl. It... more »
    MargaretMoony: As someone who has spent most of her working and non-working life around books(mainly YA) I find the suggestion that teens who read books about ED or ... more »
    TheFormerJuneBronson: If Mirrors Never Lie and The Best Little Girl in the World and its sequel, with all the gory details of bulimia, didn't do it to me, I don't believe t... more »
    Lexicat: While Go Ask Alice didn't turn a generation into drug addicts, it wasn't realistic at all in the way that Wintergirls is. I read it about 2 weeks ago ... more »
    the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene: We ordered 2 copies of this book for our school library. Laurie Halse Anderson has written on all kinds of controversial topics. I have no problem rec... more »
    girlsetsfire: I hated Go Ask Alice and I feel like a terrible person for it. more »
    librarysmut: To this day I wonder if I would have been better off if I *hadn't* read Girl & Go Ask Alice, and seen Kids, Foxfire, Welcome to the Dollhouse and ... more »
    Penny_Esq: It's not like an adolescent looking for pro-ana websites would only be able to find them because s/he read their names in a book. The kids are pretty ... more »
    hortense: Plus Laurie Halse Anderson is fantastic and though I haven't read the book I'm sure it's very thoughtful and well done. more »
    hortense: I'm a bit torn on this because my brain IS set to ED, so if I read this book at that age, it probably would have been triggering- but not a catalyst f... more »
    tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I don't know what to make of it. I read Cut before I had gone completely overboard into SI, and it certainly fueled me along - or rather, did absolute... more »
    midwesternmom: Go Ask Alice is responsible for making sure I never tried drugs until I was well into adulthood. I had a mortal terror of having a bad trip and turnin... more »
    tscheese: I think it's better to get it out there, to expose EDs for what they are--they're scary and sad, and hard to get away from-- than to hide it under wra... more »
    sableized (sister europe): Let's give teen girls a little more credit than this, no? From what I understand about EDs, they come from within, not from societal pressures (althou... more »
  • #girltalk

    Are Teen Girls Really That Fragile?

    Today the New York Times asks: does this YA novel about eating disorders serve as an E.D. primer? More »
  • #twilight

    What Do Girls Want? Chastity By Twilight