In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani characterized Prozac Nation as ``by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware,'' comparing it with the ``raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song.'' While praising Wurtzel's prose style as ``sparkling'' and ``luminescent,'' Kakutani thought the memoir ``would have benefited enormously from some strict editing'' and said that its ``self-pitying passages make the reader want to shake the author, and remind her that there are far worse fates than growing up during the '70s in New York and going to Harvard.''
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