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Summary: too much of a good idea
Review: I liked the beginning and the idea of this book. It just kept on and on and on. Like the EverReady Rabbit.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Wally Lamb does an incredible job of making me really feel what this young woman is going through emotionally. Kept me very interested up until the very end.
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Summary: This book had an emotional pull that kept me wanting more.
Review: Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone", was emotionally gripping. I had heard that it was an intense book, so I waited for the right frame of mind to start it. Once I started it, I didn't want to put it down. I had to know what Dolores Price was going to do next. The story was so comprehensive, it look you through her early childhood into her 30's. Parts of the book were sad, but realistic on how people treat one another. This book did not candy coat situations like discrimination, abuse, and the emotional blocks that we put in the way of acheiving our own happiness. At times, I did not like this character yet I never felt like she deserved what was happening to her. In the end, I did end up liking her because she was able to become emotionally healthy in a way that was believable. This book seemed so realistic, almost like an autobiography - someones true story. That's how real it is. Don't be afraid to read this book, it is worth the emotional risk and feelings it may cause you to address in your own life.
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Summary: DON'T READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: ...well, if you're the type that only reads one book per year-wally lamb is your man... but to the more experianced reader, lamb never delivers...She's come undone is an admirable effort but i've read better...i can see where lamb intended to go but his attempt landed near the middle-quite frankly this book is a badly written "coming into life" story...what the hell was Oprah thinking when she recommended this to the public...the book is nothing but sheer gratuitous entertainment...you might as well go out and buy a bunch of "pulp romance novels"...
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Summary: Ok
Review: I think this book was a bit depressing. I began to think less of Delorse towords the end of the book. She seemed sneeky but alone. At the end though I relized she needed help and it made her a better person. I would not recomend this book though I didn't find it worth while reading.
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Summary: Almost gave up on Dolores.....
Review: Well like many people in Dolores Price's life I almost gave up on her and deserted her. At times this book was very painful to read and I wanted to stop reading about this poor, depressed, overweight girl but like Dolores (herself) I persevered and I was rewarded with a very enjoyable read in the end.I was really quite absorbed by Wally Lamb's wonderful descriptive style of writing. I loved his way he described people, such as one of her therapist,"He has a little potbelly and stuttered so,badly, I spent half my time waiting for him to give birth to the syllables he eventually shaped into questions about my...." Or a woman lawyer she use to go to high school with, "Now she had a hyphenated name and a puffed-out baseball glove of a face." I also enjoyed the way Mr Lamb interweaved the times and music along with Dolores life which was a reminder to all of us who grew up during that time period of some of the important historial events and songs that happened during our growing up years. I also thought Mr Lamb really captured a woman's feelings and I kept looking at his picture on the back cover--as I couldn't believe this book was written by a man. It just amazed me that a man could capture the chacacter and the soul of a woman so well on paper. I would recommend this book as I believe it protrays the lives of many women who have triumphed over impossible childhoods and destructive relationships in order to become independent,self-relient,strong women.She truely did become "undone", Dolores is "everywoman". I just wish this book would have been written by a woman... I noticed on the backcover in Mr Lamb bio that he is married.....
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Summary: Mr. Lamb has written an utterly engrossing tale.
Review: This story served to inspire even the most cynical soul. The story of the main character explicitly depicts how one persons life can be filled with tremendous hardships and turmoil. Yet, through all these challenges, the human spirit can still prevail. A definite page-turner that keeps the reader continually wondering what will happen next.
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Summary: Came so highly recommended
Review: The best words I can use to describe this book are: trite, derivative, schlocky, corney, poorly conceived, poorly written, pandering, and all around not worth reading.
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Summary: I ALWAYS JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.
Review: I love this ocean-blue cover w/Delores's head floating on the horizon like an emerging whale. I wonder if I would have enjoyed this book so much without referring over & over to that cover. I love stories of young women and their silly, strange, and psychotic thoughts that usually go unmentioned in this world I live in. (*AUTHORS: Write more books like this!*) I liked the way Delores did crazy, secretive things, even though somewhere in the middle of the novel, I realized that the more I read, the more I started to dislike her, the book, the author. But I kept on because I was still interested, and I scarfed down the remainder of the book at an ever-increasing rate. It took me well into the end of the story to decide that I would, after all, gladly recommend the book to friends. P.S.-I don't see the author's sex as such a big deal. While the main character expressed emotionally intimate thoughts, I truly do not believe that they were the sort that only a woman could put down on paper.
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Summary: Why slam the Lamb?
Review: Dolores Price narrates a depressing tale full of sad encounters, cruel coincidences and tragic timing - it's kind of like Forrest Gump, but without the Prozac. Many readers found Dolores' story to be overwhelming, gave it one star and complained: "I was deceived by Oprah." Oh, wake up! Lamb captured the lust for self-destruction extremely well in the charachter of Dolores Price. Lamb stands Depression up on its feet, kicks it in front of a mirror and allows us to look back at the reflected abyss shown in the mind, actions and body of Dolores. When Dolores hears about whales dying in Wellfleet she heads there in a cab which makes no sense unless you understand how depression can warp your sanity. Severely depressed people crave self-negation and behave so ugly that it makes you sick to love them. Depression (Dolores) is ugly - Lamb describes it, captures it, even allows you as the reader to suffer it along with Dolores. If you can't handle it then go back to TV's Baywatch, but don't put the slam on the Lamb because he didn't waft soft sunshine puffs against your teary cheeks to lighten it all up.
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