Really intresting book. Not a fluff book by any means, but a funny yet wry look at the obsessive need some of us have to be in love. Resnick presents a pretty clear and not always flattering look at her life. She touches on her relationship with her beloved yet absent father, drunk mother and the many men who have been in her life. It is not always an easy read, but on some level(s) the book resinated with me. I have not always been the best judge of character when it came to romantic 'partners', and while i may not have gone quite to the depths that ms. resnick went, i have had my own share of dark moments. so far, the book is funny, perverse, and dark, and over all, HONEST. I got this book from the Library expecting a bunch of long words with too many vowels to be thrown at me. You know, when people go through things and get "diagnosed" they all of a sudden speak like a doctor and expect you to understand. So I was prepared to drag out the ol' dictionary on this one...but to my utter delight, it was not like that at all. I read numerous reviews bashing Ms.Resnick calling her a grown ass woman who can't stop whining......but I didn't feel that way.Rachel Resnick is a Love Junkie. But as I read that, I thought to myself, aren't we all? Aren't we all in some ways, Love Junkies? Don't we all in some way shape or form, Romanticize some relationships and do things we don't normally do to try and connect with someone?Rachel Resnick did this but to the 10th power. Every man she met was the one. When she slept with them, literally the next day she's emailing them, sometimes 30 emails in one day. Even when this one particular man told her that she's taking their relationship to seriously, she emails him some more poems and song lyrics to change his mind. When Rachel received any kind of attention, she took it and never let it go until it was torn up and mutilated. She stuck with abusive relationships just because any kind of Love is better than no love.Rachel had a hard childhood. As many of us did. And I won't go into how horrid hers actually was. The point that I'm trying to make at 9am with no caffeine, is that who are we to judge this woman with what she wanted to share as her personal experience with life? It's her experience not ours. I know that I wouldn't have gone through the things that she put herself through but I know I've put myself through enough stupid bullshit that I can't judge her. We are all Love Junkies. So thank you Rachel Resnick for putting your story out there and reminding all of the single ladies out there that you don't need to always jump head first, and reminding all the ladies that are in relationships to stay true to who you are because that's the person that your man or woman fell in love with in the first place.
What do You think about Love Junkie: A Memoir (2008)?
Not a terrible read... A little predictable, but ok.
—courtnie
It was a great depiction of us love addicts
—mign4lve6
I enjoyed this one, lots of wild stories.
—Tinka281
