She's Come Undone

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Summary: The power of Oprah
Review: I can see why Oprah liked this book; she must've absolutely identified with the Dolores character. This book was so poorly written that I read passages out loud to show people just how terrible a best seller can be. The author's descriptive powers of prose are no better than an average fourth graders. "The shirt was pinky-gray colored like a dog's tongue." Many things are "purply." Rather than say mauve or lavender. She describes her mother's nipples as looking like Tootsie Rolls. As for the sex, well the passages are utterly foolish. Five pages of erotica where the only adjective used is "pressing." She pressed against her with her fat stomach; she pressed her hair; she pressed her hand against her face . . . on ad infinitum . . . Then he writes of how she rubbed her knuckles back and forth against the girl's inner thigh to turn her on. (Wouldn't that give you an Indian burn before it got you hot?) Everyone made a big tado about how Mr. Lamb wrote from the perspective of a lonely, fat, teenaged girl's sexual point of view . . . from Oprah's big plug of this book, we now know which lonely, fat, teenaged girl's sexual viewpoint he must've been writing from.

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Summary: If you think YOUR life's screwed up, read THIS!
Review: I finished this book in one night -- it was so engrossing that I couldn't put it down! As dysfunctional as Dolores is, we can all find a bit of ourselves in her. She's a real person with real problems we can relate to. How she turns her life around in the end to one of relative normalcy is amazing. You feel that if she can conquer her demons, then anyone can conquer his or hers! The part about Dante was insane; I won't go into detail about it because I don't want to ruin it for anyone who wants to read this terrific book.

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Summary: Bravo Zulu
Review: I would never imagine that this author is a man! What a heart breaking and heart warming book. I couldn't put it down and I am not a die hard reader.

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Summary: Heartbreaking, Heartwarming, Delightfully Down to Earth, Wit
Review: Women, do NOT pass this book up! An excellent escape, letting you travel through an incredibly WELL fleshed out character's (womans) tormented, quirky, yet amusing mind.
Felt like she was a good friend of mine at the end, and still remember most of all details, well over a year later!
A MUST read!

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Summary: Well done...
Review: I generally don't like reading fictional works about women, written by men, but this one caught me. Besides the fact that you can't even tell that a man wrote this, it's just well written. It was entertaining, funny, and although, sad a majority of the time, the emotions seemed true, and that's what life's about. It's all truth, and this just happens to be a book of a persons account if it. Fictional or not. I wanted to slap Dolores a couple of times for her behavior, but in the end, it made her who she was, and you gotta love her for it.

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Summary: It's depressing all right!
Review: I found this book as depressing as everyone else who's written a review. I also couldn't put it down, but that's only because I kept thinking it was going to get better, that Dolores' life couldn't get any worse. Boy was I surprised. Now that I've finished it, the characters and their problems keep coming to mind. This is definitely one I wouldn't recommend to a friend.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: At first, I thought the book was kind of...disturbing, but then it grew to be a beautiful well-written novel. You will eventually fall in love with Dolores and pity her and even try to convince her mentally that she needs to wake up and pick herself up. Great read, this one. :)

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Summary: She's come undone alright
Review: This book, written by a male author from the female point of view, is nothing short of brilliant. Dolores Price is a young girl that everyone can relate to in some way, even though life hasn't been the same to everyone. The book is cleverly written with humor, sadness, honesty and candor. Dolores is a complex young woman who you are routing for every time she's knocked under water. Made of sandpaper on one side and silk on the other, Dolores is a myriad of emotions. To quote Elton John, she can best be described as 'A Candle in the Wind'. The best part of all there is evolution! Read, enjoy and love life!

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Summary: great book
Review: I found she come undone to be a great book it reminds me of myself how you can be happy in life no matter what you go through in life. Even though she went through hard ship, I like it at the end that she got to see what she was waiting for at the ending make me feel good that she finally find peace within her self. If you haven't read this book as yet go and get it trust me you will think it's a great book too.

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Summary: Page Turner That You Need to Bring to the Beach!
Review: I read this book and it is absolutely fantastic! I literally read it in a day because I could not put it down. The story follows a rather depressing life of trials and tribulations but you can not help to cheer for her throughout the story. The book is quite depressing if you are not one to bounce back from books easily, I would recommend reading it by the sea. Also there is a tie into the sea which will be symbolic if you are reading it in a beach chair.