She's Come Undone

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Summary: Best book I have ever read!
Review: You can't help but fall in love with Delores - despite her weirdness!!! You want her to do so well in life and she does!!! I could laugh one minute and then cry the next - A WONDEFUL BOOK!!!!!!!

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is the best book about a young woman's trials and tribulations since Yellow Raft On Blue Water. However, if you are an elitist, hate fat people, get too caught up in the gender of the author, or are unable to see beauty and humor in the little things you will NOT enjoy this book. I loved this novel. The characters were all interesting and very much like people that I known throughout my life. Thank you Mr. Lamb.

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Summary: Abundant in nostalgia!
Review: Written very effectively in the female voice by a male author, the novel purposely tweaks the reader with such items of the past as black-and-white TV, test patterns, Ed Sullivan, and S&H green stamps. My only criticism is that the book seems to run in spurts of everything goes wrong, then everything right, then everything wrong, and then everything right! Maybe life's like that, but my feeling is that good and bad times seem to intertwine more often than this books idicates. I did find Lamb's writing style pleasant and easy to read.

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Summary: Good read, but why all the smut?
Review: I found this book very interesting. Unless you've suffered from depression, one can't totally grasp why Delores acts and thinks such as she does. However, I am very disappointed that Wally Lamb had to bombard this book with appalling language and page by page description of sex. Not everyone enjoys such graphic talk, and for me, it took away from my enjoyment of the book.

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Summary: A book about being a victim of your environment.
Review: I gave this book a 3 only because I was interested enough to finish it. The book epitomizes the current thinking in our society today : We are a victim of our past - because we could not control what happened to us, we cannot control where we will go, and who we will be. I kept waiting for Dolores to realize that the future truly is in her own hands, and she can chose to live whatever life she wants. Unfortunately, I'm not sure she ever really figured it out. The popularity of the book makes me think that a surprising number of people haven't figured it out either.

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Summary: Spectacular Book For Those Who Can Relate!
Review: This book was written so well, it's hard to believe a man wrote it. There are many people who are going through the same or similar situations. This book could be one of the things they need to pull themselves together. This book is definately worth every second it takes to read.

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Summary: What's the big deal?
Review: What a pitiful group of characters!! I don't get why people loved this book so much. I love Oprah, but I don't get why most of the books she picks are so full of dysfunctional people. The book centered too much on sex and bad language. Why is it that authors these days have to use this kind of language to get their point across? (What was Wally Lamb's point anyway?) Dolores was the hero, yet she was noone to admire. She was a lot like people today. A lot of what happened to her was her fault, yet she didn't take responsibility for much. I'm left wondering why I wasted the time. What an insult to read the last chapter. After such a dysfunctional life, we're supposed to believe that everything's ok and she lives happily ever after?

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Summary: Thank you, Wally Lamb, and pooh on you, critics!
Review: Wally Lamb is a literary genius........to capture what he did is amazing. I felt depressed after having read most of the book, but when I got to the end, I felt so good for Dolores and Thayer. I really felt like things would be normal for Dolores.....NORMAL like she always longed for. This book was written well because it truly touched me...it made me really think, and I even learned things about myself. Though I certainly did not grow up like Dolores, I could relate to her feelings. Wally Lamb knows human beings. Shame on the few who say this book was unrealistic and far-out.....what they don't understand is that there are truly Doloreses out there who can never let themselves feel like they think everyone else is feeling. People who don't quite know how to let it happen. And as far as swimming with a dead whale, and stalking the guy whose photo you've developed.....this stuff happens. Get out more, you closed-minded critics!

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Summary: Incredible Characters
Review: I couldn't put this book down. The characters were so real -- I kept thinking maybe I'd bump into Dolores at the grocery store. And Wally Lamb's perspective on a young girl's life was unbelievable. I can't believe a guy wrote this. The happy ending doesn't come in a quick, hard-to-believe twist but through Dolores' gradual transformation into a normal functioning human being. It was so sweet to follow her as she found contentment.

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Summary: Wally Thank You for Helping Me!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. I can't believe that a man could write a woman so perfectly. I tried to find faults with the main character and I couldn't find one that didn't sound believable. It is the best book I have ever read. She's come undone has helped me undo my past. Wally gives us more, please!