She's Come Undone

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Summary: This Is A Great Book
Review: This book was very interesting. You could not help but feel compassion for the main character. I literally looked forward to coming home just so I could read more of this book. I would recommend this to anyone, though I'm not sure that men would get as much out of it as women. Good reading!

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Summary: A book well written that is not very uplifting
Review: I enjoyed this book but not as much as Wally Lamb's 2nd book "This Much I Know is True". It's a depressing story of a girl's life that starts out bad and continues that way all her life. Wally Lamb's books are all "page turners" and extremely well written so it's not a book you wouldn't finish even though you didn't like the subject. I enjoyed it.

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Summary: Depressing, screwed up characters, disappointing
Review: If you read the different reviews, you read some glowing reviews...But read on, and you find some one stars -- I didn't like this book. I find the characters hard to relate to, and depressing. I keep looking for joy in the book, and I can't find any..I am struggling to finish it and I am half way through. I will not pass it on to others.

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Summary: Save your money.
Review: Yes, I am one of the masses who read this book based on Oprah's recommendation. I think this book is the literary equivalent of "People" magazine. I recognize that this novel attempts to touch on the many issues facing women, but I found Lamb's manipulation of Dolores Price to be patronizing and false. If I am going to read trash, I would rather it not be packaged as pseudo-literature.

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Summary: I've read better
Review: A friend of mine advised me not to read this book, but I was curious as to what all of the hoopla was about so I picked it up. Unfortunately, I should have listened to my friend's advice. Dolores irritated me. She is a character that you want to try to love, but her actions make that impossible. True, she had a terrible childhood which haunts her throughout her life, but I never really connected with her. The one thing I did find it interesting was the fact that the novel was written by a man. I'm curious as to why Wally Lamb chose to write a story from a woman's point of view, but he writes about an overweight woman at that. I'm surprised Oprah has this book in her club--when is she going to discover The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?

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Summary: Very unbelievable story line.
Review: Dolores Price is such an unbelievable and unlovable character, it was hard to finish this book. When I did finish, I put it directly in the trash, rather than lose any friends by passing it on! I was truly disappointed, as the reviews for the book were so good. What a waste of time.

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Summary: COMPELLING
Review: I loved this book. People of all types can relate to Delores Price. She is given the struggles that a person might get in one life, not alnoe the first forty years of her life. Even thought this is a fictional book, there are people out there like her. This makes you take a good look at yourself and wonder what your moaning about. I've already delt with my parents divorce and being overweight and having to lose it and I'm only fifteen. But by her age she's been raped, delt with a divorce, a siblings death, an insane mother and having to live with an unbearable grandmother and the worst has yet to come. This is a must read book for everyone!

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Summary: Too Close to Home at Times...but a Wonderful Read!!
Review: Waly Lamb can really get inside a woman's heart & mind. My family was broken up by "another woman" at the same age as Dolores, & it was scary how many times I had to put the book down & tell myself this wasn't a biography of my life! I reccomend this for all & even made my mother read it!

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Summary: Why bother?
Review: Read this book several years ago - and now I see it's in everyone's hand (thanks to Oprah?). One of the few book I quit after three chapters - no redeeming value that I could perceive then or now.

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Summary: Couldn't put this book down!- & I never liked reading before
Review: All through my life, I never saw the use in reading. The only Literature I ever cared to see was strictly for school purposes. This book gripped me from the beginning, took me through Dolores' tumultuous years and at the end, I was sad to leave her.