She's Come Undone

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Summary: This was a very well written book that I could't put down.
Review: Because of the author's choice of words and his great descriptions, the reader could't help but empathize with the main character and her plight. This was a great book, hard to put down . It truly involved the reader emotionally

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Summary: Maybe you can go home again.
Review: A winged leg takes you where you need to go and brings you home safely, in the arms of those you love. Such is the journey of Dolores' life: rich, colorful, sad, tragic, triumphant, joyful, mundane. Life, as it is everyday for those of us who care to admit it! Dolores Price is a true heoine, in every sense of the word and has the battle scars to show. As a young child, she witnessed the inexcuseable physical and emotional beatings inflicted upon her mother by her philandering father. As an adolescent, she fought to fit in and fought off a rapist. As a teen-ager, she began a retreat into her own world of obesity and rejected all attempts at friendship through her anger, sarcasm, and self-abuse. Into her twenties, she was institutionalized and treated, ready to emerge into the world and finally willing to accept herself.

Her solitary act of helping to paint the toes of a woman with Parkinson's-a woman who befriended her through her early years, is painful-knowing that Dolores and Roberta are attempting to somehow control the disease in their child-like ways, and yet poignant in that indeed they can control the disease for a brief period. Dolores has experienced life by willing events to happen in some ways successfully, in many ways, unsuccessfully.

As Dolores matures, she realizes the pull her family had on her and comes to appreciate her Grandmother, a strong influence in the book. While her Grandmother loved her, she could not allow herself to get close to Dolores. In the end, Dolores finds love, internally and externally. Who could ask for anything more

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Summary: No plot, no reality, no good.
Review: This unbelievable life of an obese young girl was a waste of money as well as time. By the time you are 100 pages into the book, you feel obligated to finish it, just because you've read so much trash that you dare Wally Lamb to feed you even more, which he does. The only worthy aspect of this book is Lamb's cunning ability to speak as a woman... but 300 pages of unsubstantial text far outweighs even this feat

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Summary: How much did Mr. Lamb have to pay to have this published?
Review: This simply was the worst book I have ever read. I felt Dolores' pain only because I was in agony myself (due, of course, to the fact I was reading a horribly written book). I spend most of my reading time reading classics and if this is all that authors of this century are doing than all I can say is thank Orn there are still many classics I have yet to read! Truly this is one baaaaaa-d book Mr. Lamb. Do us all a favor next time inspiration (or lack there of) strikes and don't write!!

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Summary: I've read it twice since April!
Review: This book is easy to read and entertaining, yet if carefully dissected, the symbolic strata are absolutely fascinating! Having just been required to read Sylvia Plath's "the bell jar" for school, this book supplied a final resolution to the angst. I laughed out loud, wept, was angry was scared. Dolores Price (the protagonist) makes lemonade out of the proverbial lemon - after much painful squeezing and straining of pulp. My one question to the author would be "is this a post modernist novel?" I fear it may become a movie of the week! Which may win Mr. lamb fame and fortune, but will leave me wondering if the fragmentation was a commercial ploy. If the use of mixed media and time lapse was done, like in Stone Diaries, for artistic purposes or as a variation (commercial break) to attract the masses.

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Summary: Crazy, hilarious, inspirational, and terrifying
Review: Against my better judgement I purchased this book, even though it had been recommend by the "Talk Queen" of America. After sitting in my bookcase for the past three months I finally picked it up, and I had a hell of a time putting it back down. This novel crosses over any and all emotional boundaries by the end of the first chapter and never looks back. Every person that reads this book will be able to tie their own experiences into this story, even if they don't want to. It is a terrifying and exhausing journey that Wally Lamb takes the reader on, but one that is also extremely worthwhile and eye-opening

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Summary: AS A WOMAN I THINK WALLY DID A GREAT JOB!
Review: I can sure relate to this story. It was about real things that realy happen. Writing as a woman wally did a great job. I cannot believe everyone did not just love this book I do. I have told all my friends to read it. It was every emotion wrapped up into one wonderful book. I can't wait to read more of wally Lamb. I'll keep his book forever. Wenddie Willing Chesaning, Michiga

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Summary: Fun and enjoyable
Review: I felt this was a very enjoyable book. I developed an attachment to Dolores and couldn't put it down because I wanted to see what happens to this person's life that I learned so much about. It was easy reading, disturbing at times, yet funny at times

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Summary: Absolutely moving!
Review: She's Come Undone is depressing yet funny all in one novel. Delores Price is a character that every woman can relate to in some way, shape or form and while reading the book, you will think about her every day and wonder what she will experience next. It's hard to believe that a man wrote this book - Wally Lamb is so intuitive to how women think and feel! Everyone should read about Delores Price

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Summary: We may be dysfunctional but we'll always have each other
Review: The hardest thing for me to swallow is the fact that this book was written by a man! I do not mean that derogatorily: Mr. Lamb has so captured the essence of the female baby boomer, I cannot imagine there is one of us out there who cannot relate to something in this book. Although Dolores' adventures conjured up the same feelings of emptiness and sadness that E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" did, the hopeful feeling that Dolores would come out on top prevailed. It was good, too, to travel back in time to the music, customs and fads of my past. All Dolores' trials, tribulations, pitfalls and betrayals which she encountered over her colorful life were near and dear to my heart, and I was rooting for her throughout. I think any baby boomer who fails to read "She's Come Undone" is missing out on one of the best reads of his (actually, her) life. Theresa V. Douglass [e-mail] Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, BWI