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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Love Junkie: A Memoirby: Rachel Resnick  List Price: $24.00 Amazon.com's Price: $16.32 You Save: $7.68 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781596914940 ISBN: 1596914947 Label: Bloomsbury USA Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 11, 2008 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Release Date: November 11, 2008 Studio: Bloomsbury USA Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Rachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, childless—a train wreck. After an ex-boyfriend breaks into her home and vandalizes it, Resnick takes the time to look back over her romantic and sexual history to ask the question: What is wrong with me? Her addiction to sex and love has cost her in damaging ways throughout the course of her life. At the root of her issues: a Dickensian childhood and a haunting experience she must finally confront. Written with raw humor and unflinching honesty, Love Junkie charts Rachel Resnick’s harrowing emotional journey from destructive love to intimacy, from despair to hope. By peeling back one painful layer after another, she discovers a glaring pattern: She is addicted to the fantasy of romantic bliss, marriage, and children. Although her story is an extreme one, what we realize over the course of Resnick’s journey is how many people experience aspects of this addiction and the self-destruction that comes with it—all fed by a culture where romantic obsession is stoked by the stories we read, the movies we see, and the dreams we’re fed. This unique memoir cracks open one of the more elusive and pervasive modern-day compulsions—and holds a mirror up to each of us. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - As Juicy as an OrangeDesperate and at times disturbing--Love Junkie is a memoir that is almost too honest. Resnick, a forty year old writer, is our junkie. The book recounts her relationships from childhood to middle age as evidence of her love addiction. An addiction she claims is as gripping as heroin. Resnick opens her story by describing scenes in which her mother threw herself at men while neglecting her children, and segues into history vividly repeating itself over a string of Resnick's own failed relationships. ... Read More Rating: - A very bittersweet memoirThis is a very bittersweet memoir of a woman with a very sad upbringing. Her mother kills herself at 14 and the father get custody but doesn't want her so he farms her out to foster families that he pays. Of course she goes looking for love in all the wrong places and substitutes sex for love. It is amazing how she can remain somewhat positive through out her life. Overall, a good read. Rating: - This book is a roller coaster ride for sureYes, this book is one erotic ride. We have an old fashioned made of wood hold your hands way up and scream goin' down roller coaster in my town. Reading Rachel Resnick's life story on love is like riding that thing. Love Junkie is a well written naked tour of one woman's passion for finding love. Scary and honest fun. And did I say hot? I feel like a voyeur here just using the word "fun". But she let's you look. And it's a juicy and drippy through the glass turn-on that she does let ... Read More Rating: - love junkie bookthe post office was suuuper slow in getting this product to me, but the seller was really nice and responded to my inquiries quickly. i finally received the book and it's in perfect condition. Rating: - A must read for anyone who has confused love with sexThis brutally honest account of Resnick's personal compulsion toward sex to fill the void of her horrific childhood is a must read for anyone who seeks to understand love and sex obsession. Resnick details in vivid prose her dysfunctional childhood wrought with abandonment, sexual confusion, her mothers alcoholism and neglect. It is a miracle she made it without turning to alcoholism herself. Her escape of choice was men and loveless abusive relationships instead. She confused sex with love and love with ... Read More 
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