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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first movies I ever saw when I was wee lad was the film adaptation of this book, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Inexplicably, my mother brought me with her to see it when I was 6 years old. I remember being awestruck and horrified, and totally unable to understand what was going on. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40069779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is mind-blowing. I will never look at insanity the same way again after reading this account of a very relatable person dealing with horrible experiences. <br/><br/>In too many cases insanity is portrayed in popular literature as either humorous or charismatic--unless it's just an excuse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64146604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for an abnormal psychology class--we had to review a book about any sort of mental illness, and I'd found it in my parents' basement bookshelves.<br/><br/>The book was a very powerful read the first time through, mainly because the main character was named Deborah and I'd been rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39897067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that when a book is so bad, you forget everything about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is semi-autobiographical.  It is about a teenage girl who has schizophrenia and is institutionalized in the 1960s.  It follows her for four years and shows how the mental illness affects everyone around her, both positively and negatively.  It was recommended by my psychology professor.  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40971266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My 15 yo daughter and I read this at the same time. We have such differing tastes and it was a rare situation where she actually liked a book that I suggested and found worthwhile.<br/><br/>I found it fascinating to see how a person who is having difficulty dealing with reality constructs their ow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53532186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book years ago in school and decided to try it again a couple of days ago, and this time around  I got so much more out of it. <br/><br/>Basically, it's a very interesting, very serious book. The story is that of a 16 year old girl and her struggle with mental illness and her three year ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38467568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn to this book once I learned it contained an account of a young girl's struggle with schizophrenia in the late 1940's before the dawn of antipsychotics.  The author split the story between two worlds experienced by the patient, the &quot;real&quot; world of the psychiatric hospital and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61182019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My original review <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://zenleaf.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-never-promised-you-rose-garden-by.html">here</a>.<br/><br/>This book is a fictionalized autobiography (along the same lines as The Bell Jar) of Greenberg's years in a mental hospital as a teen. Greenberg's character is called Deborah Blau, and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. In those days (late 50s), that diagnosis was v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40796640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The edition of this book that I have is by &quot;Hannah Green,&quot; which I later discovered is Joanne Greenberg's pseudonym. Apparently some parts of the story are autobiographical, and she was unwilling to reveal her mental illness at the time.<br/><br/>This book, written in the early sixties, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34336658">more...</a>]]></body>
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