How to Murder Your Life Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Cat Marnell
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
810

How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell Book Summary

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.

At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America—and that’s all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a “doctor shopper” who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything—anything—to sleep.

This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school—and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell’s amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve. From the Condé Nast building to seedy nightclubs, from doctors’ offices and mental hospitals, Marnell “treads a knife edge between glamorizing her own despair and rendering it with savage honesty.…with the skill of a pulp novelist” (The New York Times Book Review) what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can’t say no.

Combining “all the intoxicating intrigue of a thriller and yet all the sobering pathos of a gifted writer’s true-life journey to recover her former health, happiness, ambitions, and identity” (Harper’s Bazaar), How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.

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Book Name How to Murder Your Life
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.77 MB

How to Murder Your Life (Cat Marnell) Book Reviews 2024

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How to murder your life. Exhausted from reading this book. I've lost two days to it. Should be required reading for everyone from 12 years old and up.

Yes. I really couldn't put this book down. I was totally sucked in. I'm not a drug addict, but somehow Cat had me relating to her every move. If she wrote another book I'd buy it in a heart beat. (I hope you are doing well Cat. Totally followed you on Instagram and you are beautiful!)

WOW. speechless just wow

Gripping, dark, intoxicating. Great writing, amusing, couldn’t put it down. It helped me process and forgive my own regrettable behavior during dark times, and all the guilt that lingers. A cautionary tale for ambitious party girls.

Love it,Love Cat,Love her story ,just Love. With a capital L

Great read. I enjoyed reading every minute of this book. I am sadden you have had so much heartbreak in your life, but like they say "What doesn't kill us, just makes us a stronger". This is a book I think every young adult and parent should read. Yeah she may not be what people considered "clean" at the end of the book, but her story is real and raw! This is life! Wish her nothing but the best!

Couldn't Put It Down. Cat, girlfriend, thanks for writing this book! You're a trooper and I admire your courage. Anyone who has an addiction to drugs/alcohol will totally relate.

Couldn't stop reading!. Thank you for writing this Cat Marnell. Five stars! I couldn't put it down!

Couldn’t put down. I read this book in one day. So engrossing - I loved it!

So good!. Seriously, could not put this book down!

How To Murder Your Life. I admired Cat for her ambition, but I kept reading the same story over and over. I was excited to hear how Cat overcame her severe addiction, but it never came. She says that she is doing better, but she is still addicted and not clean. It was a disappointing ending. She is, sadly, still heading for an early death. I don't feel like she should be praised for this book. (She was legally forced to write it.) I will be happy to read a future book from her when she truly gets her act together and gives up drugs and alcohol 100%. And, Marco...

Catchy at Every Paragraph. If you loved Go Ask Alice - you’ll love this too!

Tedious and poorly written. Kept expecting the story to get interesting or insightful, but it doesn’t. Cat is vapid and her snark is sophomoric.

Whitty, honest and amazing. Could not put this book down once I started it- and I am not a big reader... unless you consider twitter reading. Working in the beauty industry myself, this gives a spin of real ness and honesty like I've never read before. Love this!!!!

A VISCERALLY SPELLBINDING BOOK!!!. This book is viscerally spellbinding...A wild thrill ride of apocalyptic adventure!!!

Unbelievable. Unbelievable, couldn’t put it down

The most honest thing I’ve ever read.... I’m obsessed! So good, it captures you and you really feeel like you’re in Cats mind.

So good. Bought this book yesterday afternoon.. finished it at midnight. Seriously want to read it again already! bravo Cat!

Good read. I am not a good writer but I am a good reader. This was a great book. I hope the story or Cat’s life ends well and I wish her all the best.

Loved this book!. I had never heard of Cat before deciding to give this book a shot and man she did not disappoint. It was hilarious, sad, heartbreaking, relatable, honest, raw. I read some reviews on here beforehand that said “I was expecting her to be sober in the end”......because all stories have to have a fairytale ending to be good....? Anyway, reading this book I got exactly what I paid for. Her honestly is brutal and refreshing. You won’t be disappointed.

How to murder your life. Terrible I would give it zero stars if I could

How to murder your life. Couldn’t put it down! What a honest and amazing book . Can’t wait to read what she writes next!

Amazing read. I loved this book, it was hard to put down! For anyone who has, or still is, struggling with addiction-this is a must read. Makes you realize you aren’t the only “weirdo” out there. Thanks Cat for all the insight and the brutally honest truth about your life, it truly helped me feel not alone! You give hope to those who are feeling like they are going nowhere and let them know it’s ok to be a work in progress

Amazing. Gripping. Gritty. Raw. A page turner for sure. Breathtakingly honest.

Addicting book about Addiction. I walked into barns and noble and this was the first book that caught my eye. So happy I found it! Once I picked up the book and read that her troubbles started at boarding school I was sucked in. Its simply ad addicting book abut addiction, her voice is humorous and she is now a role model of mine for the way she approached the topic and worked though it. She knew she had a problem but choose to embrace it and share it with the worled, she also knew she was talented with her problems and all. KUDOS CAT I LUV U

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