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Summary: Mixed feelings about this book
Review: I really liked the first half of this book and thought it would be one of those stay-up-all-night-to-finish-it reads. I was able to empathize with the young Dolores and her anger at her father and her inability to fit in at school. I could sympathize with the fact of her rape and weight gain. I really felt for Dolores until she went off to college and still refused to grow up. I lost all sympathy for her when she poisoned the fish. After that, the book dragged for me and I had to force myself to finish it.
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Summary: couldn't put it down!!!
Review: Although I couldn't relate to Doris, I thought it was such a captivating story. In a way, I can't believe that I did keep reading because it was so depressing.
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Summary: Trite. Predictable. Mean-spirited.
Review: I labored through the entire book because some friends had highly recommended it, thinking it must get better, it must. It didn't.
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Summary: she's come undone puts me together
Review: Once I picked up this book there was no putting it down. A friend lent me the book and when she asked what I thought of it so far I could not stop praising it!! I kept talking about the female author and how she had this tremendous insight into our minds as women. My friend laughed and said 'look on the back cover' I did the author is a man. Then this man is a genius. I have been undone and his insight and ability to tell a GOOD story are topnotch! This should be a classic respected with the names of those few authors that truly write the story.
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Summary: Excellent Reading
Review: Like any book, you're opinion will be based on how closely you can relate to the main character. I found this book to be poignant and real, one of those can't-tear-myself-away-stay-up-all-night reads. After I was finished, I missed the characters and took several days to recover before I could begin another book. Yes, in places it stretces a bit, but the overall effect is excellent, and I too marvelled that a man could so aptly describe the pain of being a young woman.
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Summary: Is the whole world out to sexually abuse Doloris Price?
Review: Is everyone Doloris Price meets looking to seduce or rape this fat, socially inept girl? Most people have more non-sexual relationships than sexual relationships in thier lives. This definately not the case for Doloris. Every time a new character was introduced, I thought "O.k., how is THIS person going to sexaully abuse her?' Books, like movies, require a certain suspension of disbelief to be successful. "She's Come Undone," asks for way too much for the story to be enjoyable. Doloris Price is the product of a broken home which causes her to cut off all ties with her father. I can believe that. Doloris gets raped as a young girl. No problems there. Doloris is extremely overweight. Interesting quirk. Her mother gets killed in a unique accident. I'm still with it. She is hated at college and in a mockingly sexual way, humliated in front of her peers. O.k., a little much, but I'm still reading. She is emotionally overtaken by and has sex with a lesbian cleaning lady. Huh? She then blows all her money on a cab ride to cape cod and bonds with a dead whale. Oh, come on now! She happens to find this man who's she's been dreaming about through a mail-away film lab. Now martians should land because it's a free-for-all. And this is just the first half of the book. I found it impossible to actually believe that the series of events presented happened to one person in the course of a very young life. Now I realize this is fiction, and the point is to be better than real life, but there is only so far you can go before you need to call it science fiction. What makes a book great, in my opinion, is the belief that certain events COULD happen to believable characters. I have to say, Doloris did have a interesting, angry "what do I care" tone when she was a younger character, but it got annoying as she grew into womanhood. It's hard to feel sorry for someone who does nothing but feel sorry for themself. I also don't understand why "She's Come Undone" having been written by a man should be anything special. Are men unable to relate to women? Are all men neanderthal? Please, give them a little credit.
After reading this book, I am reluctant to give my vaulable and rare reading time to new authors. I'll stick to Steinbeck.
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Summary: Very well done
Review: This book was so easy to read that I felt like the character was coming from within my own self. Identifying with the main theme of the story, it took hold of my heart and I found myself fully becoming this girl. The fact that this story was written by a man made me see how maybe men do understand what goes on inside the hearts of women and their unique struggles. I walked away from the book with new thoughts and ideas about the world that we live in. An inspiring novel will spark that match of curiousity and will follow through to send you off knowing more and needing to know more. This is one of those very inspiring novels.
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Summary: She's come undone
Review: The novel She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb was nothing short of spellbounding. From the moment that I read the first gripping paragraph I was hooked. The reader is given the opportunity to experience life through the eyes of a very normal yet extremly repressed child. In her life, she has experienced more heartbreak and abuse than any normal person can fathom. Yet, somehow, Lamb makes it all seem as if we know exactly where her feelings stem from. It is mesmerizing.
Each time that I read this novel, I recieve another new and valuable message about the fragility of life, the dire neccesity of expression, and a lesson on the treatment of others.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is the best book I have read. Easy reading, couldn't wait to turn the pages, was so sad that there was not more to read. Who would believe a man wrote this book? I will read more of Lamb s books!!!
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Summary: Just because it was on Oprah doesn't mean it's any good.
Review: Honestly, I have never thrown a book in the garbage before. Until this one... What a labored, dismal tale.
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