World Famous Comics: Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
By: Beatrice Sparks Publisher: HarperTeen Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: HarperTeen Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 176 Publication Date: April 01, 2002 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: April 16, 2002
I am so scared. I feel like I'm silently screaming for help and no one pays any attention of tries to hear me. I can't control anything anymore. It's all out to get me!
When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations -- especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control -- or can she?
sigh I honestly think that this is a real diary, because the way 'Kim' write it almost impossible for someone who isn't a shallow bratty middle school acting girl to write. I do know other girls her age who should act and write older who don't, and they act like her. Kim is very shallow and so was her diary, she acted more like my baby sister who's 13, than a 18 year old. She is boy crazy, and obessived with herself. She's immature. I though her story would be more deep, and it's not it's about an annoying girl who's anorexic. I would find it hard to believe than an older lady like Beatrice Sparks, could even write someone so immature, and shallow, I do think it's real. I do feel bad for Kim, and no one should have to go though what she did, and I glad she had a good ending, but it's doesn't make a good book for older or more mature ladys. I'm 21 and it was too immature for me, I do think it would be a good middle school book, for young girls to learn from Kim's mistakes, but for those of us who are mature we would be annoyed by Kim.
complete waste of paper A chapter into it I knew that it was another "this is what happens" book by an unqualified writer. She has no expertise in the field and certainly has no personal experience because if she had she would never have written this shallow and inaccurate book.
Shameful Beatrice Sparks is the author/editor of a serious of "anonymous" teen diaries. They are meant as "warnings" to children. In fact, they are not based on real diaries and the only one that actually was, she used about 10% of the journal entries and added a Satanic theme which horrified the family.
Now I am aware that children should be taught such things as drugs are bad, teenage pregnancy is not preferable, don't kill yourself etc. However, I take offense when presented in this manner. Children learn best from the truth not extreme propaganda. I also take offense that many libraries (especially school libraries) list this book as non-fiction, when in fact it is a work of fiction.
Give me a break This book only got 2 stars because of the fact I actually finished it, I don't usually finish books. This book is so annoying. No one with a real eating disorder is that happy about EVERYTHING, she happy about her parents, and some guy, and school, gymnastics and life...if you're so happy then why would you need an ED? Plus there is no way to get to 75lbs by just bulimia, maybe there is, but not the way she was going at it. There was no account of excessive excercise either. And getting so hungry she ate dog food???? Give me a break! It was an OK book until it got to her "recovery" she was just too happy about that too. Read Diary of an Anorexic girl, I mean most people will fight recovery. This book is just so pathetic, she sounds like a 12 year old girl not a college freshman. I in no way could relate to this girl and usually I can. Thank god the book was short other wise I would have completely wasted my time.
The original James Frey Brought to you from the author of Go Ask Alice... yeah, right.
This is probably not the first great hoax in publishing history, but I'm sure it's one of the most successful.
In spite of the fact that the actual source of this book has long been revealed and known, the publishing company continues to brazenly assert that this is a genuine document. It's as ridiculous as the continuing insistence that The Amityville Horror is a true story, too.
It should take any literate adult no more than one and one half pages to determine that this is neither the language nor the syntax of an adolescent/young adult.
It is a known fact that this shameless propoganda was the work of Beatrice Sparks, a Mormom activist who created an entire series of these books, in which children are destroyed by the evils of homosexuality, premarital sex, drug abuse, satanism, etc.
Without diminishing what positive impact this book, or any of the others, may have had on impressionable youth, and without condemning its good intentions (is anyone in favor of having AIDS?), these books are complete rubbish.
Like Mr. Frey, the intentions are not the point.
The point is that these books are being published as nonfiction.
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