Advantages: An excellent read, hard to put down! Disadvantages: I have some concerns - see the review.
spending £20 each (and that's second-hand) on at this time. Then there's fiction books, and autobiographies specifically about self-harm. Ask me about any of these books and I'll tell you if they're worth reading or not.
After these books there's the autobiographies where self-injury is a theme, but isn't the main theme. Books in this category include Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation", and Nick Johnstone's "A Head Full of Blue". These books don't sit on my self-injury bookshelf (yes, I have a dedicated self-injury book shelf), and Linda Cain's "Out of the Dark" will join them on my main bookshelf.
I am specifically publishing this review today as tomorrow (1st March) is SIAD (Self-Injury Awareness Day).
The Story
I was really eager to get started reading this book. As with any autobiography with pictures I went ...
Advantages: Easy to follow the structure of this story Disadvantages: Can't put it down
Out of the Dark - When I started reading this book, I had no idea how profoundly it would effect me. I have suffered with depression of varying degrees for a number of years, culminating in 3 attempts on my own life in 2005.
The way this story has been written, makes it all the more interesting as not only do we get Linda's point of view, we also get the thoughts of Robin her psychiatrist. The way we are directed along the "mountain goat trail" is extremely effective in bringing both points of view of the story together.
Sufferers beware, this book hits home, I related to Linda's story on so many occassions I lost count.
As it stands till now I am roughly 3/4's of the way through, and find it difficult to put down. I am about to go away for 3 weeks, so I'll finish it long b4 I get back online, but as soon as I do I will reveal my ...
Advantages: A beautiful movie Disadvantages: Lack of special features
ultimately turn out to be the big bad guy at the end, thus ruling over the entire movie.
The performances of the movie are good: Paul Walker heads up the cast as Jared, I'm very impressed with Walker as for the exception of the Fast & Furious movies he tries to become the epitome of the acting chameleon, appearing in Action, kids movies, adventure movies, thrillers and horror titles; better still Paul Walker really can act, and manages to keep his personal life from over shadowing his working career. Despite being a media favourite Jessica Alba (here playing Sam) fails to clock on my radar, I find her completely unappealing and not a great actress. Luckily her appearances on screen are minimal and its Walker and Scott Caan as Bryce who steal the show. On the subject of Caan, his performance is utterly convincing and I'm sure anyone watching ...