this is the thread where we suggest mental problems for Elizabeth Wurtzel to develop so she can write another book about them

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Okay, not really. She's kind of a love her or leave her writer, isn't she? I really like her writing style and I wonder what she would sound like if she talked about something other than herself.

Subquestion: Isn't it a bit odd for her to publish an ADVICE BOOK?

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Narcissitic Personality Disorder, for sure. I seem to recall reading Prozac Nation at about the same time I was reading The Bell Jar. It is a wonder that I am still here. Wurtzel's writing alone was enough to make me want to open up a vein.

Never read Bitch (the book, not the mag) and don't intend to -- heard somewhere that is was full of gross factual errors.

― quincie, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Bitch was the first book I ever read that I literally threw to the floor in disgust after reading it. Now, More, Again is sort of the story of her writing it, and how she was snorting coke and ritalin and being a general burden to everyone she ever knew as she produced it, so it was actually pretty interesting. Bitch is utterly bloated and would have been much better if her editor had trimmed the hell out of it, but after reading about its production in NMA I assume they were just considering themselves lucky they got anything out of her at all.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone ever read that interview with her after 9/11 where she basically whined what a drag it all was for her.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.aol.com/jimtreacher/images/wurtzelchurch.gif

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Catty, you actually finished Bitch? I'm amazed. I don't know a single person who got past page 100. What an absolute piece of shit.

― Jessa (kenan), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

My car broke down and I was forced on a two-hour commute to work. That certainly helped me get through it. Although by the end I was totally skimming because she ceased pretending the book was about anything other than herself.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to hate Wurtzel. Here is this attractive women whose books are published, and yet all she can do is take drugs and whine and talk about herself. But I can't hate her, because she has a prose style to die for - judging by that Ritalin book.

― R the V (Jake Proudlock), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe she should develop an acute self-critical faculty.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

fat chance. then we wouldn't get to find out what she's watching on tv or what she shops for at the store. (See Toby Young's review or More Now Again in the Guardian)

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, Toby Young's one to talk.

I quite like self-obsessed women. They beat thoughtful, sensitive, nosy ones any time.

― R the V (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have Toby Young's book and have tried to read it but there's just something so unappeallingly smarmy about him that I can't get past the title page.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes - Young and Wurtzel represent the new confessional style of slagging yourself off and patting yourself on the back at the same time. Shamed, blamed, and famed. One eye cries; the other winks.

― R the V (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Toby Young book is funny though.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Her taste in music was a bit of a problem for me, but I did find her writing in Prozaac Nation livid and hypnotic. Definitely a full throttle narcissist.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Skull dropsy.

― writingstatic (writingstatic), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"I quite like self-obsessed women. They beat thoughtful, sensitive, nosy ones any time.

-- R the V (qp10q...), January 7th, 2004."

Sure -- in person. But on the page? No nosy author's likely to turn her eye on YOU unless you want to interview and / or stalk her.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX addiction

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

she needs a blog, i think.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no EW blog -- why give away for free what publishers pay for?
her website isn't even up, which is weird. although maybe not, when considering the above.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

is it just me or is she looking a bit pamela anderson lee kid rock here?

http://www.elizabeth-wurtzel.com/splash.jpg

perhaps this is an early clue to her new direction!

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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