Stick Figure
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Stick Figure
Lori Gottlieb
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0425178900
Release Date: 2001-04-10

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In the image-conscious world of 1970s Beverly Hills, 11-year-old Lori knows she's different. Instead of trading clothes and dreaming of teen idols like most of her pre-adolescent friends, Lori prefers reading books, writing in her journal and making up her own creative homework assignments. Chronically disapproving of her parents' shallow lifestyle, she challenges their authority and chafes under their constant demands to curb her frank opinions and act more "ladylike." Feeling as though she has lost control over her rapidly changing world, Lori focuses all her concentration on one subject: dieting. Her life narrows to a single goal--to be "...the thinnest eleven year old on the entire planet." But once she achieves her "stick figure," Lori really sees herself for the first time in a restaurant bathroom mirror and decides then and there to bring herself back from the brink of starvation.

Stick Figure is a surprisingly upbeat memoir, mainly due to Gottlieb's descriptions of her upper-crust parents: "Mom and I usually don't like the same movies. For example, she didn't like my favorite movie, Star Wars, probably because no one goes shopping...." But despite the sly humor, Lori comes to a sobering conclusion that is, sadly, still relevant today: "...you can be too thin and not even know it, because you spend so much time listening to everyone talk about how ladies are supposed to diet, and how something's wrong with you if you aren't worried about being thin, too." Culled from Gottlieb's pre-teen diaries, Stick Figure is a wry and engaging observation of an eating disorder and the society that contributed to it. --Jennifer Hubert

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When Lori Gottlieb was 11 years old, she did something girls that age often do: She started a diary. And like far too many other 11-year-old girls, she also began starving herself. Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self chronicles her transformation from a bright, healthy kid into a hospital patient on the verge of death, and it illustrates how a young girl can become convinced that anorexia is the answer to her preadolescent confusion.

With an edgy wit and keenly observant eye, Stick Figure delivers an engrossing glimpse into the mind of a girl in transition to adulthood. Fortunately, the 11-year-old Lori recorded her journey to recovery in her diary, and her story is funny, slyly insightful, and surprisingly universal.

An unflinchingly candid, bitingly funny debut, Stick Figure's compelling mix of irreverent humor, satire and autobiography offers dead-on observances about everything from mothers to the medical profession, gender roles to the absurdities of society's obsession with beauty. Martin Scorsese's company, DeFina/Cappa Productions, has purchased movie rights to Gottlieb's journal.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good Book.......2007-08-29

This book is a very easy read and is enjoyable. However, one year does seem unrealistic for a girl to go into treatment and recover from an eating disorder and then never really think about it or relapse for the rest of her life. But it was a good story.

3 out of 5 stars Meh.......2007-08-07

I've read a lot of books about eating disorders and people with them, and this is one of my least favorites.
While it does show how a young girl goes from complete innocence to being painfully aware of her body, and how damaging it is to be surrounded by women who constantly obsess over their own weight, it doesn't really delve any further than that. It doesn't get into the psychological factors or the treatment of eating disorders, and Lori seems to magically "get over" her problem.
For someone between the ages of 10 and 14, it's probably a helpful though triggering book. However, for someone who has struggled with and come out of the other side of an eating disorder, it's less than incredible.

1 out of 5 stars Stick Figure is a total fake........2007-06-25

This book was marketed as the journal of an 11 year old girl with anorexia. After reading this book, and all the clever little hidden meanings, I very much doubt this was written by an 11 year old. To me it came across as an adult attempting to write like a precocious 11 year old. Some of the events in it are just too ridiculous to even imagine could be true - the mother pulls out a script in order to remember to say "I understand your need for control." - PLEASE. In addition, this whole novel (and that's what I believe it is) belittles the seriousness of anorexia. My sister has had anorexia for 25 years and is a nutritionist who works exclusively with anorexic girls. An anorexic cannot just suddenly one day decide to start eating again and become cured. That is absolutely ridiculous. It is a long, slow process with many set-backs and disappointments. Furthermore, her description of her treatment rings completely false. Did the author ever actually have anorexia? I sincerely doubt it. In my opinion, this author has manipulated the public in order to profit both personally and financially. I feel ripped off.

4 out of 5 stars Stick Figure.......2006-11-30

Here stands a girl named Lori, 11 years old with a disease called anorexia. Her mother eats on diets; here friends eat on diets; and every girl at her school are on diets except for her. Her mother reads all of these books on diets and is always telling her, "Save the dessert for your father and brother. You don't need all of this food." And of course this poor little girl kept wondering why. A little while later her family went over to some relative's house to have nice meal with them. Lori sat next to her cousin Kate. Lori thought Kate's legs were so skinny and wondered how Kate kept her nice figure. Then Lori looked down at her legs; she thought, boy they look humongous. They are so wide and fat. Then she looked how much food Kate took on her plate; there was barely anything. Lori then she looked at hers; there was so much. After that Lori started not eating breakfast and saying that she didn't feel like eating. It started growing in to a bigger deal with her parents about her not eating. Lori had lost so much weight over the past couple months, so her mother started getting concerned so she took Lori to the doctor. She had lost at least two pounds in just a week or two. After telling the doctor that she wasn't eating breakfast and starting not to eat much of anything, he wanted to see her the next week. When Lori came in the next week she had lost even more weight. That's when Lori's doctor said she needed to talk to a counselor about what was going on. And boy, Lori wasn't happy about that. The first day of going to see her new consoler was weird. He asked her to draw a picture of herself and how she thinks she looks and then to draw another picture what she wants to look like. Lori drew a stick figure. Then after she drew those pictures Lori played chess with her counselor. Just plain old chess. Lori started buying diet books and reading how many calories were in food because she thought she was so fat. Then she started doing laps in the night to burn calories and then foot lifts. After a couple of weeks Lori's family, doctor and counselor thought it would be best if she was to be hospitalized. She had to be watched when eating her food and had to eat 75% of her food, otherwise she would have to have a tube down her throat to feed her if she didn't. She had her life at a risk. Would Maria be in the hospital the rest of her life? Would she start eating and get out of the hospital and recover? Or would she die in the hospital because she wouldn't eat anything? If you want to know read the book and find out!
I thought the authors writing style was okay. It was in a journal form and the book showed how much she was going through. She kept explaining how she was feeling in the moment. But one thing was that the book wasn't very descriptive. It would tell some things descriptively but not that many.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was so attaching. You wanted to know what was going to happen next. The chapters aren't very long so you can read quite a bit in just a half hour. I really recommend reading this book. It teaches you a lesson that being thin isn't that good, and going on diets can be dangerous. I hope you read this book!

4 out of 5 stars Stick Figure: A Diary Of My Former Self.......2006-11-24

Lori Gottlieb is a girl who thinks that no one understands her; and she's right. Whenever Lori's mother has friends over, her big brother David would wow the grown ups with his intelligence and humor. But then when Lori would try to say something she was thinking, the friends would just say, "Oh she's such a unique girl, isn't she?" Lori didn't get what was so unique about her. After that, she learned not to say anything she thought, or to say anything at all from the grown ups around her. Just to be invisible.
Another thing she didn't get was how little women ate. Her mother would always dump everything that was on her plate onto either her father's or David's plate. Lori noticed how she ate like `the men in the house' do, while her mother read magazines about losing weight that had skinny models and `beautiful' people. Lori was a naturally thin girl; but after her mother always asking why Lori wasn't like the girls in the soap operas she watched;her learning about no guy liking `thunder thighs'; or that you can never be `too rich or too thin', Lori started to read diet books and making herself a diet.
The only thing she wished was to be the skinniest person on earth. Even though Lori did not understand why each book said silly things like, "drink three full glasses of water before a meal so then you won't be so hungry", she decided to diet like a woman. At first she was very dizzy from not eating anything, but she got used to it. She started counting the calories in her head of everything she inhaled and took a bite of like crazy; and she became more and more skinny: just what she wanted.
Her parents did not like the idea of her eating eight glasses of water and only eating two-hundred and fifty calories a day, so they got her a shrink named Dr. Gold that drove Lori crazy because "he was always nodding his head at everything I said even if it wasn't necessary". He and Lori's doctor, Dr. Katz would always tell her that she is too skinny and needs to eat. Lori thought they were just saying that because her family put them up to it, so she kept doing the diet because she didn't want to be fat anymore. She kept losing weight, and Dr. Katz kept thinking of ways to make her eat more, but each one didn't work. Finally, Lori's family had an "emergency meeting" at Dr. Gold's office and her mom, dad, and brother agreed to send Lori to the hospital, even though she did not understand why.
In the hospital, she met a couple people who she became close to such as Nora, another sick girl down the hall; and Elizabeth, a nurse that cared about her(finally, someone who seems to). This book is filled with the thoughts of an eleven year old girl who is oblivious to the fact that the women in magazines are not real, and she is confused by the country around her and the definition of the word "skinny".
This book has a great resolution because you actually feel like you're finishing this book with a purpose and a moral. At first to me the book was very slow and boring and I thought I was going to never finish it. Then when things started moving, I was hooked. I liked reading this book from the character's point of view because you knew what she was thinking, and you understood why she was anorexic. If this book wasn't written in first person, you'd think the whole story was just about a little girl who was anorexic because no one understood her. But it is more than that, because you can actually get what she is talking about, and how some people never even hear of anorexia when they're doing it to themselves. Some people don't even know what they're doing, and Lori didn't. She just wanted to be skinny. I think it's fascinating that Lori Gottlieb is a real woman, and it actually happened to her and she made the character someone you could relate to. This book really opened my eyes as you can see, and I hope that you enjoy it if you read it as well. I think everyone should read this book to understand why some people are anorexic or bulimic; not because they're crazy, but because of the people around them. If you really think about it, it's actually our fault that people are anorexic or bulimic because it is a fight for everyone to be the best, or the most beautiful, or the wealthiest; and for some stupid reason in America, beautiful=skinny.
Tim Burton's Stick Boy & Match Girl Note Cards and Figures Boxed Set
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Tim Burton's Stick Boy & Match Girl Note Cards and Figures Boxed Set
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2 PVC figures (Stick Boy & Match Girl), 8 note cards (2 designs), 8 envelopes, packaged in a custom box We have discovered the perfect gift set for two of Tim Burton's farorite characters, those star-crossed lovebirds named Stick Boy and Match Girl. We have created two 4" pvc figures of the duo, which are only available in this package. Included are a set of eight note cards ( 4 each of two designs) and envelopes, featuring Tim Burton's original drawings of the characters. We also have included a card that reprints the short poem that tells the story of this ill-fated romance.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Super!.......2007-01-10

Oh my gosh! My daughter loves Tim Burton and when I saw this set, I had to get it for her for Christmas. It is very unique and a must for Burton addicts.

5 out of 5 stars The Best of Burton!.......2007-01-10

I purchased this set for a friend and She loved it! It looks great out of the box and the figures are great! I love it!

5 out of 5 stars Great product if you don't plan to use.......2006-01-07

I love my Stick Boy and Match Girl figurines that come with this set, but I ran into one little problem when I was going to send one of the cards to a friend--the cards don't fit in their envelopes. With a little cramming, I finally got it in there, but it was bow-shaped because the card was just a bit too large for the tiny envelope. This is a unique and fun product, but I don't recommend it if you are actually planning to use the cards.

5 out of 5 stars Very Cool Gift.......2005-11-30

I bought this as a gift for my girlfriend. She is into odd art and objects and this was just the thing. She has read Tim Burton's book, but enjoys his art work more than the stories, thus I felt like this would be a good gift. Nicely packaged and even cooler out of the box.
Yoga Stick Figure Asana Vocabulary Deck
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    Yoga Stick Figure Asana Vocabulary Deck
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    Memorize Sanskrit words used in yoga postures and their correct pronunciations. Dont know your Parivritta from your Paripurna? Or how to say them? One of the best ways to learn the names of postures is to learn the words contained within each posture, their meanings and pronunciations. Mikelle worked with Vyaas Houston, of the American Sanskrit Institute, one of Americas foremost authorities on Sanskrit, to get the correct pronunciations. She developed an easy system of phonetics so you can learn to say the Sanskrit words correctly-- quickly and simply. Vocabulary deck includes 94 cards. Cards are- Size: 4" X 5 1/2" , two sided, and laminated.
    How to Draw Yoga Stick Figures
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      How to Draw Yoga Stick Figures
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      Stickman: Not Your Average Stick-Figure
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      • Stickman is the highlight of childrens inspriation for lreaning and being creative with colors!!!
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      Stickman: Not Your Average Stick-Figure
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      Introducing Stickman Not Your Average Stick-figure featuring Stickman aka Maurice Mitchell and Friends.

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      5 out of 5 stars Stickman is the highlight of childrens inspriation for lreaning and being creative with colors!!!.......2007-04-01

      This is the best book I brought on Amazon.com and appreciate reading and enjoying the creative, artistic, and great wirting work this author showed. I will stand behind whatever creative and artistic work Mr. Fred Mitchell will persue in the near future and so on. Looking forward to Stickman Extravaganza!!!

      5 out of 5 stars Stickman is the bomb.......2007-03-10

      This is an excellent activities book. The kids will enjoy it, especially during car trips.
      Stick Figure: A Personal Journey Through Anorexia and Bulimia
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      • This was very good book and it was sad.
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      Please do not read this book if you are in the midst or in recovery from an ED. The author's journey through her ED describes habits and tricks that will be triggering to you.

      4 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking but true.......2001-01-04

      One of the few things I've come across about anorexia which blows the myths to pieces. Chris was not "the good child" nor was she a "perfectionist," nor did she have a lot of the attrbutes often pinned on people with eating disorders.

      She describes frankly the hellish journey from anorexia through to bulimia nervosa, in calm monotone, with no miracles or drama- this wasn't glamourised.

      What struck me about this particular autobiography was that she wasn't dramatising her situation, nor was she asking for pity or admiration. She was just telling it like it is, intelligently, honestly, and in a sense that would make people without eating disorders possibly understand a little more as to why people do this to themselves.

      A must have on the bookshelf for any counsellor, family member, parent or friend who wants to try and help or understand someone with either anorexia or bulimia.

      5 out of 5 stars This was very good book and it was sad........1999-02-09

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      Beginner Old Testament Overview (Stick Figure) (Stick Figure)
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            Stick Figure:  A Diary to My Former Self
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              Flash Point North Korea: The Pueblo and EC-121 Crises
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              Flash Point North Korea: The Pueblo and EC-121 Crises
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              During a dark period of U.S. military history in the late 1960s, North Korean forces captured an American naval vessel and shot down an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, taking the lives of thirty-one U.S. sailors and Marines and striking a damaging blow to American honor. This look back to that earlier time of crisis provides serious food for thought as contemporary strategists again grapple with a North Korean regime that threatens regional security and U.S. national interests.

              The capture of USS Pueblo has been written about extensively but rarely in context with the shoot down fifteen months later of an EC-121 aircraft and never with so much relevant documentation. Richard Mobley, a veteran naval intelligence officer who served on the staff of U.S. forces in Korea during the late 1990s--confronting many of the same challenges faced in the 1960s and today--has uncovered a vast array of recently declassified documents that shed new light on these events and address lingering questions about U.S. reactions and its failure to retaliate. The formerly top secret answers to these and many other frequently asked questions are all covered in Mobley's groundbreaking investigation. His careful examination of the resource strains caused by concurrent U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the unexecuted retaliatory plans, and lessons learned confirms many criticisms long leveled at U.S. planners and decision-makers. It also challenges other criticisms by revealing new information and by placing these facts in the context of the time. The author couples the wisdom of hindsight with the revelation of new information for a timely new work on a subject of ongoing and vital importance.

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              4 out of 5 stars Still, Nobody Can Say Why They Did It.......2004-03-21

              This book provides a detailed chronology of the United States' response to the North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo and its crew in January 1968 (1 KIA and 82 POW) and the downing of a USN EC-121 electronic reconnaissance aircraft (31 KIA) on April 1969, less than four months after the release of Pueblo's crew. It does not recount more than the bare outlines of the two incidents themselves. I served in a Navy unit in Japan that was the permanent station for two of men killed in the EC-121 shoot down and participated in post-shoot down deployments in that theater during 1969-70.

              Commander Mobley traces the U.S. response from Washington and in the Western Pacific to each event. Both incidents follow the same pattern: 1) initial confusion and inability to respond to the attacks in real time, 2) a rush to deploy military assets into the region, 3) a period of air and naval saber rattling in apparent preparation for retaliatory strikes against North Korea and 4) eventual standing down for a negotiated release of the Pueblo crew and, well, nothing at all for the EC-121 shoot down. Both events take place against a backdrop of a major war in Vietnam, where South Korea (ROK) and North Korea (KORCOMs) were both involved,. In both cases the North Koreans took, and won, the calculated gamble that the U.S. would not risk opening a "second front" in Northeast Asia. Lame U.S. response to both incidents, especially from the then-new Nixon administration in 1969, illustrate how unprepared the U.S. was (and is?) to engage the North Koreans. Oddly, in that era the ROK's forces were numerically much stronger than the KORCOM's and their martial governments were seemingly anxious. to attack - they, after all, suffered more casualties than the U.S., plus the KORCOMs tried to kill the ROK president in 1967.

              As Mobley describes, but, in my opinion, fails to put into full context, the period from about November 1966 through mid-1969 saw hundreds of actions between KORCOM and both ROK and U.S. forces along the DMZ and along the ocean boundary on both the Sea of Japan and Yellow Sea coasts. These several hundred firefights are, along with the Pueblo and EC-121 incidents, referred to by participants as the Second Korean War, a small scale war that claimed more than 1,000 ROK and U.S. casualties (the approximately 186 U.S. casualties - 75 KIA and 111 WIA from all services - are a significantly higher casualty RATE than U.S. forces suffered during Desert Storm) and a larger number of KORCOM deaths (most fought to the death rather than be captured). By treating the Navy incidents as almost totally separate from the U.S. land and ROK land/sea incidents (which were NOT much publicized at the time since the media usually can't handle more than one story at a time, and Vietnam was the big story) Mobley does not capture the feel of the era that participants in-theater experienced. Also, Mobley glosses over or fails to describe some post-EC-121 U.S. responses in the theater.

              Mobley illustrates how the ROK land forces at the time significantly outnumbered estimated KORCOM forces, although the KORCOMs had a numerical advantage in tactical aircraft. The U.S. air forces were pathetically small - although more could be brought in - and U.S. Army units were under strength, and remained so, due to needs in Vietnam. The big question remains, "What was North Korea trying to do?" The best Mobley comes up with, and it's as good an answer as anyone else has ever publicly provided, is that it was all related to some internal policy struggle among North Korean elites (hawks v. super hawks?) that died down when the risks began to outweigh the perceived internal political and propaganda advantages. Or perhaps, as one U.S. official remarked following a seemingly pointless KORCOM outrage, "That's just what they do."

              I recommend this book to anyone interested in Cold War, Korean peninsula and Northeast Asian military and political history. The author is a former U.S. Navy officer who served in Korea and Northeast Asia a number of years after the incidents described in this book. His primary sources, documented in footnotes and a bibliography, are from declassified DOD and State Department records, Congressional hearing records and oral histories of senior civilian and military officials. The maps are inadequate in either detail or content to follow the progress of deployments or identify the location of some events. Several black and white photographs add little information since they are of well know people (e.g., President Johnson and Defense Secretary McNamara) or widely published stock photos of military aircraft and vessels.

              5 out of 5 stars HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.......2003-12-25

              Richard Mobley has done an excellent job of placing the Pueblo capture and the subsequent shoot down of an EC-121 in it's proper historical perspective. Instead of focusing on each incident as other books have done, Mobley delves behind the scenes using newly available information to set up the then current situations and then shows what followed. A timely book considering the current climate in North Korea. I might have had second thoughts of flying the DMZ right before leaving the ROK back in '91 if I'd read this book first. Having been painted by NK radar the whole time now takes on a whole new meaning for me.

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