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Summary: A young girl's journey to keep from falling apart...
Review: Wally Lamb will most defiently grab your attention from this book if your into the comical, dramatic and inspirational type of books. This book is sure to make you laugh as Dolores takes a wild, crazy, and heart breaking trip through young adulthood.
Dolores Prince. What more can I say? She's a wise-mouthed 13 year old who acts 20. After many confusing family problems and being on sort of an emotional rollercoaster she starts to loose her grounds. Dolores Prince unfolds the tail of her life, telling many heartbreaking stories. She has a very troubled childhood. She ended up being raped by a previously friendly neighbor,struggles with her obesity, has mental illiness and then enters a trouble marrage. She ends up spending her days in front of the TV, eating potato chips and drinking pepsi, infact this becomes an everyday thing for her. When she finally realizes she's about to go under and she's falling completly apart she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under! Such a great book. Having such a great book we must give credit to the author. Wally Lamb is truly a wonderful writer. Before writing this book he spent 25 years teaching and working on his books part time not thinking that they would ever become so popular. Lamb was born on Oct. 17 1950 and was always known as the quiet type. He was always reading and writing as a child. Now Lamb after written two books that were a great success is known as an "overnight" success. Author of She's Come Undone written in 1992 and I Know This Much Is True written in 1998. Both books worth reading!
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Summary: Wally Lamb enhanted me into the world of Dolores Price!
Review: "She's Come Undone", is by far, the most heartfelt, sensitive, realistic and over-all best book that I have ever read. Lamb's characterization of Dorlores reels the reader into the story...I could feel her pain! I cried. This is the first and only book that could even bring tears to my eyes, let alone make me completely and utterly weep. I recommend this book to anyone who has even an iota of compassion whether you are the "sensitive type" or not, this book will create a deeper understanding of human beings for all of us. It doesn't matterifr you are over-weight or not, "She's Come Undone" will touch home, and strike a couple of nerves that may need to by touched. I know that by reading this book, myself, I have discovered a new person that was hiding within me, and I shall never judge a person or even look at a person in the same context ever again. Thank you Mr.Lamb for forever changing my outlook on life.-Nicole Bec
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Summary: Lengthy Inspiration
Review: When I picked up this book I was immediately turned off... it said Oprah's Book Club on the cover. I brought it home anyway (I had to read it for school)I hated Delores, thought she was detestable, crude and selfish but somewhere during the course of the story you fall in love with her. Delores experiences so much in her one life that many of us could only experience over several lives. She always seems to come through even though she has strange ways of dealing with herself. It is an inspirational tale of a young spirit that was broken and revived over and over. I closed this long book with satisfaction (well almost.. I do have to write a report on it now). I would most definately recommend it to anyone who needs a spirit uplift or just a way to escape life for a few hours. Wally Lamb does an incredible job of portraying a young female. Excellent book.
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Summary: She Undid Me as Well
Review: If someone would have told me six weeks ago that by now I would have read and been completely absorbed by the tale of a 257 pound girl named Delores I would have told them they were out of their mind. But strange things happen when I find myself without something to read. Invariably I turn to our home library to consider reading a book that my wife purchased, or perhaps re-reading one of my old favorites. This time "She's Come Undone" caught my attention. "Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered," said the back cover. "That's an interesting hook," I thought. "And the author is a man delivering a first person female narrative? Hmmmm... may have to give ole Wally a few pages of my interest." That was all Wally needed. Within just the first few pages describing Delores' perfectly natural early childhood and allusions to her future woes I was engrossed. This book is about the possibly healing affects we can have as friends and the potentially destructive power we have as family. It is about the undeniable value of positive self-image and the brutal consequences of inappropriate guilt. It is about divorce, it is about AIDS, it is about obesity, and it is about rape and abortion. It is about hope and love. It contains several hundred of the most physically painful pages that I have ever read, interrupted only intermittently with some dark joke made as Delores faces her struggles. In the space of 465 pages Wally brings to life not a classic heroine who defeats all of her foes, but a woman simply trying to survive. Even after a week I feel sympathy for this illusion created by Wally Lamb, and throughout the day I look for her. Sadly, I see her in many faces. A highly, highly recommended read for anyone who feels they have the stomach for it. While many of the topics addressed should be discussed with teenagers, I would not recommend a young reader going this one alone. There are astonishingly important lessons here. Lessons for all of us.
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Summary: Wonderfully Written
Review: Wally Lambs book She's come undone, was the best book I have read in years. I read all 469 pages in 3 days. I could not put the book down. I found myself reading in at work, before school, and at home when ever I got a second from my kids. I locked my self in the bathroom so I could read a few more pages before I had to cook dinner. The writers ability to write from a females perspective was astonishing. At times you wander if he is a female. At the began of the book the author develops his characters in such great detail you feel you have known them for years. Delores the man character catches your heart. Every girl is faced with issues that Delores Price struggles with a daily basis, at some point in their life. Delores struggles with family problems, family lose and extreme obesity, nothing seems to go right in the poor girls life. She's come undone is a very inspiring book. I have known many people including myself, that have been obese and read this book and it inspired them to lose weight. At many times in the book I caught myself shedding a tear, feeling Delores's pain, then feeling proud of her for her daily accomplishments. Delores makes you feel like there is hope in this work. She gives you strength in the darkness. The book is truly astounding. I recommend this book to everyone. If you have not read Wally Lamb's She's come undone, go and buy it now, or check it out at your local library.
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Summary: Best book in 10 years
Review: This is perhaps the best book I've read in 10 years. I can't believe Wally Lamb (a man) got this female character so right. You will swear it's written by a woman. Sad in spots, but never depressing; by the end you're cheering loudly for Dolores. Other good ones like this: An Egg on Three Sticks, A Girl in Parts, Shadow Baby.
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Summary: sob-fest
Review: This was the most rediculous sob-story I have ever read. Billed as "hilarious" by the New York Times, this book was anything but. I felt so miserable after reading it, all I wanted to do was crawl into a cave with an etch-a-scetch and die. Mr. Lamb did manage, in this horrendous soap-opera, to allow every plague of modern society to settle on one unlucky person (ad nauseum). Poor self-pitying Dolores Price suffers the divorce of her parents, rape, depression, death of family members, obesity, clinical depression, sexual/physical abuse, a homosexual encounter, a bad marriage, an abortion and infertility. Whew, sucks to be her. And yet Dolores is so spiteful and self-absorbed that I could never give her an ounce of the sympathy she so pathetically craved. Despite all her sufferings, I just wanted to wring her neck. And some of the scenes are so graphic that I found myself reading with the cover barely cracked open, praying that no one could look over my shoulder to see what was written on the page. Do not waste your precious time and hard-earned money.
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Summary: Stellar!
Review: My first thought on reading about the premise of this book was, "Oh, no. Surely not." I couldn't imagine myself being taken with a novel that deals with a two-hundred-something pound girl, let alone one who has the myriad problems she has. But the most intriuging aspect of Lamb's book is that Doleres Price is a real person. Well, not literally, but the way Lamb paints her, she's a lot like one of those people we've all met at one time or another--and probably looked the other way. She's flesh and blood (and a lot of it, by the way) and the delving into the psyche that Lamb provides via Doleres is just, well, amazing. Well written, with eccentric yet believable characters, like McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" or Boyle's "Drop City" this unique achievement deserves all the accolades it has received. A truly stellar performance from the master himself.
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Summary: Another incredible book
Review: Wally Lamb continues to amaze me with his writing. I had previously read his other book, "I Know This Much Is True." I just couldn't get enough of his writing and so I picked up this book. The ability of Lamb to write in the voice a girl as she matures into a woman was astonishing. The feelings and emotions put into this book kept me from being able to put it down. I couldn't get enough of Delores and her complicated and touching story. I recommend this book to everyone, a wonderful read!
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Summary: Wonderfully written, touching beyond words
Review: I found it hard to believe that a man could write so well in the voice of a teenage girl but he did and Wally Lamb really hit the nail on the head with this book. It was the first one of his that I read and it made me want to read more. Delores Price is the perfect protagonist - she's not perfect but just HUMAN and I think that's why so many people can identify with her. She wants to be accepted (don't we all?) and she looks for love in a lot of places she shouldn't. It is brilliant to see Delores come of age in this novel. I laughed, I cried, I got mad and in the end, I loved the novel and how it changed me.
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