Love Junkie

A Memoir

By: Rachel Resnick

Narrated by: Lauren Weedman

Love Junkie is the story of Rachel Resnick's dangerous addiction to sex and love. It's an addiction that has cost her in horrible ways throughout the course of her life - from the time she rear-ended a family van on the freeway because she was obsessively speed-dialing her lover's phone, to when she blew the deadline on her first major newspaper assignment. Love Junkie charts Rachel Resnick's harrowing emotional journey from addiction to intimacy, from despair to hope, and the men - the worst kind of men - who accompanied her on it. It is a groundbreaking and compulsively readable memoir that cracks open one of the more elusive and pervasive addictions of our time. Written with raw humour and unflinching honesty, it is the story of coming to terms with your past in order to be able to map out a different kind of future.

©2008 Rachel Resnick (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Interesting Story

If you have some high level knowledge of addiction and recovery this is a quick read/listen. And entertaining, shocking. I listened in one day.

That said, I wished the author slowed down her writing a little more. I kept hoping for a deeper insight into this woman’s thinking and evolution. In particular I wanted more of her journey into recovery - because this gal has been down a painful road, she’s got hope to give us:)

Cupid, Take your Bow and Shove It!

Rachel Resnick picks up her pen in her forties— single, broke, depressed, and childless. What happened?

Looking back over the years, Rachel peels back one exquisite yet failed relationship after another to discover why she's so far away from her dreams of marriage and family. Shouldn't that be the end result, when all you cared about was love?

Resnick got her first lesson in passion from her beautiful and addicted mother, who took her children to a brink that few have experienced. It affected Resnick for the rest of her life. I remember meeting Rachel and Janet Finch of "White Oleander" in a green room at a writers festival one afternoon... and we had a goosebumps moment of mutual recognition: the survivors club of filicide.

LJ is superbly narrated by Lauren Weedman, who brings out the humor and the pathos in each scene, top notch.

Raw and real

This author really bared a lot, and at the same time explores the underpinning emotions behind her patterns. Excellent storytelling, too. I am rooting for Rachel and everyone else who will benefit from her story.

Too much gory detail

As a fellow love junkie, I was hoping to hear how someone else was able to overcome and recover from their addiction. Instead, this came off as an erotica novel with way too much sexual detail. I was repulsed, intrigued, and triggered all at the same time. I think it could have been possible to still describe all of the emotions that love addiction brings without so much detail about the sexual encounters. There was very little discussion about her recovery, or how someone else may be able to find recovery. She is a really great writer. This just wasn't what I was hoping for. I was left with a lot of sadness at the end and not much hope for the writer...or myself.

I don't think a Love Junkie understands Love

Any additional comments?

I listened to this book and wondered if Rachel Resnick was going to find a solution to her issues. She did a good job explaining the how and why she became a love junkie and she was successful in explaining the insights she learned along the way. What I found hard to understand was that in the end she didn't really solve her issues with being a love junkie just transferred it into a different less destructive form.