What are you currently reading??

DitaPage* · February 12th, 2009, 12:30 AM

Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel.

It seems to be impossible to write about depression without coming across as pretentious, whiny, and unlikeable.

**Karistiona** · February 12th, 2009, 07:25 AM

Ugh I know, I really hate those books. Wurtzel is so full of herself it put me right off the book.

DitaPage* · February 12th, 2009, 03:52 PM

And the thing is, depression is literally staring at walls, unable to do anything. But I guess no one can write a book about that because it's too boring. It's not having opportunities like studying at Harvard.

**buttmunch** · February 12th, 2009, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by DitaPage*

Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel.

It seems to be impossible to write about depression without coming across as pretentious, whiny, and unlikeable.

Apparently that's exactly what she is.

DitaPage* · February 13th, 2009, 05:07 PM

I agree. I thought I could sympathize with her, but every single page is woe is me. Even when she says she's happy, she's still bitching to everyone and wanting drugs.

**NedNederlander** · February 14th, 2009, 04:12 AM

Blast from the past - Ben Elton

**Penny Lane** · February 15th, 2009, 12:34 AM

Prozac Nation is great if you're a depressed 15 year old girl who self-mutilates.. consequently exactly what I was when I read it. What a little shit I was... really, it's a dreadful book.

DitaPage* · February 15th, 2009, 03:05 PM

Yeah thats what I realized while reading it; how much of an asshole i was! Really, I had the same issues as her, I just didn't write a book about it, and I thought 'Wow... I was a nightmare'. There was some good parts, and the afterword where she goes into how annoying she is after all.

**cmmdee** · February 16th, 2009, 08:26 AM

Cracks by Sheila Kohler. It was twisted.

**sputnik** · February 16th, 2009, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Prozac Nation is great if you're a depressed 15 year old girl who self-mutilates.. consequently exactly what I was when I read it. What a little shit I was... really, it's a dreadful book.

lol prozac nation sucks ass, it's for the 'woe-is-me- i'm-so-dark-and-twisted-and-depressed-and-no-one-gets-me-i'm-gonna-carve-'poetry'-into-my-arm-while-listening-to-fiona-apple-and/or-an-difranco-and-light-some-candles-and-write-in-my-diary-wait-is-my-eyeliner-on-right? crowd.

it's so 90's teenage angst.

**GossipJunkieBBFan** · February 17th, 2009, 09:54 PM

Multiple Blessings by Jon and Kate Gosselin with Beth Carson.

**MarieAntoinette** · February 18th, 2009, 04:34 AM

Prozac Nation was annoying, whiny and dull. But on the other hand, depressed people can be like that too (sorry!).

I'm re-reading "Lost Souls" by Poppy Z. Brite and that book is completely hilarious.

I can't remember how I felt about it when I was a teenager, but today it is as cheesy as they come.

**GossipJunkieBBFan** · February 19th, 2009, 03:22 PM

Identical by Ellen Hopkins.

**calcifer** · February 27th, 2009, 05:18 PM

la fin du monde - tirabosco et wazem. (bd/graphic novel)

**KristiB** · February 28th, 2009, 10:24 AM

Drood by Dan Simmons. His book The Terror is one of my all time favorite books.

Drood is hard to explain. It's historical fiction. It's narrated by Wilkie Collins who tells the story of Charles Dickens after he meets a creepy character (and possible murderer/cannibal) named Drood after a train crash that really happened. Charles Dickens' last unfinished novel was called The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Anyway, the book is really creepy, scary, funny and really well written. I heard a reviewer mention zombies. Can't wait to see that!!