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    <body><![CDATA[Another old book review from my blog:<br/><br/>This was one seriously fucked up book. I have never seen the movie but, of course, knew what I was in for when I got the book. The name &quot;Sybil&quot; is very well known, and carries some stigma, in pop culture. <br/>However, I had no concept of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7164968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[REALLY INTERESTING if you're at all into psychology or childhood trauma.  This book is a true story, but it reads like a science-fiction at times just because it is so so sad and horrible.<br/><br/>If this book were better written and a little quicker paced I think it could easily become one of my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17133908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very fascinating and at times very disturbing book.  I probably would have given it 4 stars, but I made the mistake of looking up details about this woman online prior to finishing the book which really changed my feelings about the actual author and doctor involved.  Apparently this woma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7752689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mungkin ini salah satu buku favorit saya sepanjang masa. Buku yang diadopsi dari 'kisah nyata' seorang gadis yang dilahirkan (tahun 1923) di keluarga dan lingkungan yang begitu menekan dirinya, baik fisik terutama secara kejiwaan.<br/><br/>Sybil kemudian mengalami MPD (multiple personality disorde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35915009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a YA librarian I get tons upon tons of requests for A Child Called It, a fantastically horrible memoir about a childhood spent living with an abusive mother. I frequently get questions from other librarians that go something like &quot;why do teens like to read that junk?&quot; Well, it wasn't th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18628116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[gue baca ini waktu masih kuliah.<br/>Awalnya kita agak bingung, krn ceritanya seperti ngeloncat-loncat gak nyambung... tapi klo diterusin bagus banget. Kita akan dibawa untuk ngerasain gimana rasanya punya kepribadian ganda, apalagi sampe 16!<br/>Ternyata masing2 pribadi itu punya kebiasaan yang t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5270702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in the mid 70s and I reread it a few times throughout the next decade or so. It tells a heartbreaking, fascinating and absorbing story of a woman with multiple personality disorder, which is a dissociative disorder. I’ve heard over the years that the story is more fiction than non...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4175756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt the pacing in this book was a bit strange; the early part of the analysis dragged on for quite some time, and then as things became more interesting I felt that the story-line skipped along too quickly, leaving out many details.  My reaction to this at the time was that the author was growing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80207385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book during and awakening in my life.  I was facing the dread of loneliness and despair at choices and trials I had voluntarily put myself in.  Knowing I had no one to blame but myself, I gravitated to all of the psychological biographies and fictions that I could possibly find  Messed u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69050001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book during and awakening in my life.  I was facing the dread of lonliness and despair at choices and trials I had voluntarily put myself in.  Knowing I had no one to blame but myself, I gravitated to all of the psycholicial biographies and fictions that I could possibly find  Messed up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59726970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's funny how you read a book for the first time, especially for a specific field of study.  You get a chance to examine it very closely and are able to dissect it carefully hoping to get at its underlying truths.    The first time I read this book, I looked for flaws, unable to take it at face val...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54240315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well written for what it is--a true report of a very disturbed human from a disturbing life.  Explicit torture, child abuse, psychiatric info--should be read with caution.<br/><br/>Similar book: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45220.I_Never_Promised_You_a_Rose_Garden_Signet_" title="I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Signet) by Joanne Greenberg">I Never Promised You a Rose Garden</a>, by<br/>&quot;Hannah Green&quot; pseudonym.<br/><br/>Discuss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3246283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sybil blew my mind away. While the writing style itself could have used some work, it was very informative and I truly learned so much from reading this book. I have a certain &quot;fascination,&quot; so to speak (for lack of better word), with mental disorders such as dissociative identity disorder...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40849976">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[currently, i hate this book. i have read many, many horror stories of abuse...but sybil's mother, clearly mentally ill and forever to be undiagnosed, is pathetic and sad and horrific. i don't know if i'll finish this....so far it makes me want to vomit. seen the movie with sally field...that's much ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19954932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/> One of the first looks at what is casually known as Multiple Personality Disorder this book does not necessarily make you a believer in the disorder, but is interesting anyways. I would recommend &quot;When Rabbit Howls&quot; if you are interested in this disorder and want a slightly more mod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3152362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was probably the most disturbing thing I've ever read..<br/><br/>I gave it three stars cause as much as I disliked it, it WAS well-written, and I'm sure it must have taken a lot of work to piece together Sybil's story in such an accurate and articulate manner.<br/><br/>But like I said....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69102527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent read, a horrifying story. It makes you sad that people don't need a license to have a child. Quite disturbing at times, so another one that I wouldn't want to read before I went to bed...because I did and then I couldn't fall asleep. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book as a teenager and was really affected by it.  It was a really good book and super disturbing.  The things her mother did to her were beyond inhumane and monstrous.  I'm not sure how sold I am on the &quot;split personality&quot; theory but the mind has to find a way to survive and m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48166501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book I read in High school during my psychology phase. I also watched the movie with Sally Field (I think if was her wasn't it?)and really learned quite a bit about human behavior and mental illness. This was also around the time I took Psych in high school with my carzy psych teacher, Miss ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69617031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT<br/><br/>This is my second time reading this book. I had forgotten much of it since I'd read it at least 4 years ago. The descriptions of the abuse affected me much more this time, though I'm not sure why. But I was thoroughly disturbed for a night. I hadn't remembered the details of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50968394">more...</a>]]></body>
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