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Summary: A Story Of A Girl/Woman's Life
Review: It took me two years to finally pick up this book because I'd already heard so much about it.... a fat girl who goes crazy. I felt like I'd already understood the book... It is so much more than what I'd thought. Dolores, an only child of a strained and abusive marriage, tries to comes to terms with her life after he parents divorce. She misses her Daddy (who was good to her but not to her Mother); the house she lived in and the life she led. She lives thereafter, with her repressed Mother and more-than-represed Grandmother, and she is ridiculed as the 'new kid on the block' in her new town.Dolores doesn't "bounce back" (as we'd say in modern-day times) from her parent's divorce. She becomes withdrawn, angry, difficult, and uses food as a comfort. She grows into an obese, introspective, young woman who later goes through the trauma of being raped by a family tenant.... all of that exacerbates her alredy sensitive situation. Dolores' painful life experiences continue and make this a moving, and memorable story. Dolores goes through experiences which are at times, emotionally exhausting, but necessary for her own recovery...This is the kind of book I LOVE: one that takes you from the very beginning of Life's Journey to the "Very Beginning of Life's Journey". A True Full Circle. Dolores perseveres after struggle, struggle, struggle. An excellent novel!...
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Summary: Living A Messed Up Life...
Review: Dolores Price is indeed a person with lots of issues. The story of her life comes together in a novel called, She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb. Dolores comes from a family of alcoholism and abuse. The men she encounters in her life don't seem to care too much for her. Her Grandmother is controlling, and she doesn't have many friends who like her at all. Because of all this drama and heartache, she confines herself to the television with all the junk food in the world and tries to eat her sorrows away.
Dolores' father leaves her and her mother alone at a very young age, to be with another woman, of course. Dolores has hatred for her father but at the same time, wishes so badly that she had a father-figure in her life. To make matters worse, as Dolores starts her teenage years, her mother is stricken by a car while she is at work at a toll booth. Her Mother dies, leaving Dolores alone to live with her Grandmother. While all this is going on, Dolores is not doing good in school. She can't do her homework and is constantly getting in fights with teachers and students. The only "friend" Dolores meets is an older man who lives above her. She feels like she has a sort of attachment for this man and develops a bond of trust with him. However, later on he rapes Dolores, making her life even lower.
After having such a terrible childhood and teenage years, and after a lot of pressure, Dolores goes off to college. At first she is excited because it is getting away from home. Dolores is also excited to meet her roommate. She creates a fake personality to get her roommate to like her and see her as a fun normal girl, instead of an overweight, depressed human. She then realizes that this isn't a good idea, especially since her roommate will eventually see the real her.
During her college years Dolores experiences much heartache and many more terrible situations. She finally gets pushed over the edge and runs away. After being found naked on a beach "swimming" with a beached whale, she is put in a mental institute which is exactly what she needs. There, she is "reborn" and forever changed. She loses all the weight she gained while being depressed. Dolores finally moves to her own house to get her life started over.
Dolores gets her life to normal standards. She meets a few bad guys and actually gets married then divorced again. At the end everything goes well for her and she finds the right man for her.
Dolores' life is for sure not what you would call a normal life. However, through all the things she goes through, things that most people would just give up on, she keeps herself alive. It is amazing how someone like this can just go from being completely "undone" to completely normal.
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Summary: Touching and entertaing
Review: This book was everything a person could hope for in a book. It drew me in bringing me along in Dolore's strggles and her triumphs. It made me laugh, and cry, then it made me read it again!
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Summary: A Remarkable Novel
Review: Contemporary fiction just doesn't get any better then this!! It's the type of book that makes you stop reading and shake your head, shocked by the insights you've encountered. In short, you'll be undone.
Dolores Price is a character few people will soon forget. Wally Lamb so beautifully captures the life of this women. At times beautiful, shocking, and scary, but always unforgetable. I truly felt my life flash in my eyes as I read this novel. I didn't always relate to exactly what Dolores Price went through, but I still felt a connection. At times I cried for her, others I wanted to slap her, for her unsympathic and cruel ways to certain people. This character that a man created was so finely intuned with what women go through, I had a hard time trying to convince myself that a women did not write this book. This book deserves to be opened up and read again and again, because it is hard to shut her up once you've finished reading.
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Summary: Depressing
Review: Everything bad that could possibly happen to this girl does and I felt absolutely depressed after I finished reading it.
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Summary: Too Many Stereotypes
Review: All through this book there are lame stereotypes you can find on any TV show or weepy chick flick. You got the troubled mother who's footsteps Delores follows almost verbatim, the prejudice grandmother, the cad of a father, the charming man who rapes Delores, obnoxious college students, hippies, jocks, a very mannish lesbian, typical mental patients, stereotypical gay men and of course, the boyfriend who is another Jack, starts off charming, then becomes a jerk in the middle of the book. Not to mention he's a typical artist type, self-absorbed, so ASSURED of his artistic talents. There is not one character in this book that isn't a cardboard cutout. None of these characters develop in their own right. They all seem to exist exclusively for Delores's sake and have no life of their own outside her. As for Delores herself she barely changes from the bitter little girl she was to a stumbling woman. This book is designed to be a feel good coming of age triumphant sort of story but instead it leaves me feeling frustrated and bitter. I find stock characters to be dull and uninteresting. Stereotypes just do not make for good literature. They are easy, they get the general public interested but they don't really make a mark.
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Summary: Dolores Price: The Lady of Sorrow
Review: This was a wonderful book. It had a little bit of everything; there was sadness, happiness, and drama. What I really liked about this book was that it was real, it did not tangle in a web of lies about the life of a teenage girl. It stated the truth and was not some sort of fairy tale, it was reality. This book had everything from death to living and from sexual orientation to obesity. What surprised me the most about this book, is first of all, how real Dolores Price seemed, and second of all, how the author of this book is the most unexpected person to convincingly write in a female's voice, a male.
Dolores Price is a girl that most women can relate to. Traces of her can be sporadically found in all women. From her desires, to her thoughts, to her actions, most women have done or will do some of the things that Dolores Price did. The author traces her life back to the age where she's old enough to remember memories, but still too young to know if it was real or her imagination.
Her life had a fairly good start, loving parents, great home, and a wonderful place to grow up. Since she was too young to remember or comprehend some things, she felt she had a pretty good childhood. Something then turns her world upside down and from then on things get worse. Her life practically shatters and she is left trying to pick up the pieces and glue them back together.
She transitions into her teenage years, the most difficult years in a person's life, in an awkward way. After having her innocence striped from her and then gaining weight, Dolores has found no other way to be happy. She eats and eats while she sits in front of the television watching her favorite programs. She builds a wall, which is typical for a teenager, around her mother and grandmother, blocking them, and never letting them get to her. Dolores soon realized that even though it hurt her mother, she could make herself feel better by putting her mother down, and practically insulting her. In a way, I think that Dolores was just trying to get back at her mother because she believed that she caused her life to be so terrible.
By the time Dolores was eligible for college, she was also eligible for death. She was over-weight and did nothing about it, she did not see the health problems or complications, and she did not see how embarrassing it might be for her, because she could barely walk a few steps without losing her breath. Her mother and her counselor forced her into college. Dolores kept to herself at college and tried to become friends with her roommate, but instead became her personal slave. Dolores, who did not have many friends her age, took this as a real friendship, but it was also an escape from, Dottie, the cleaning lady, who was a lesbian. She ran from college because she was scared of the students and of Dottie.
As the story progresses, the reader soon finds themselves with Dolores at Gracewood Institute. It is here that Dolores begins to realize, that despite what she has done in the past, or what has been done to her, she deserves some happiness. Dolores soon moves out and follows her heart to Dante. Dante and Dolores had a complicated relationship before Dante even knew about Dolores. Dolores had been some sort of stalker, but she believed that Dante would love her the way she deserves to be loved and the way she believed she loved him. Dante soon meet Dolores, and they married. Their marriage was rocky from the start. Dolores had always put away her own needs to make sure that Dante would stay by her side. They divorced because things were not working out and because both of them soon found out that their marriage was built around lies, pretend people.
Dolores moved back to her old childhood house, her grandmother's, and decided to go back to college. This is where she finds true happiness, but she is so scared of disappointment and rejection that she does not give into this new found happiness; Thayer, a man who has a 13 year old son, and decides to go back to college for education. Dolores and Thayer soon fall in love, despite Dolores' ways of trying to keep him out of her life. Dolores was now accepted and loved.
I would recommend this book to all women, those who want a book to relate to, those who want to cry and laugh with a character, and those who just have a taste for reality but fiction books. You will be surprised at how many little things or how many things that happen to Dolores or Dolores does that you can connect with. However, this book was depressing, I was waiting for the author to bring Dolores out of her slump, but he just kept digging her deeper and deeper into depression. But that is also what made the book so good, the fact that it wasn't a fairy tale like story, with unrealistic themes and plots, it was the truth of life and how life isn't perfect, not even for characters in a book.
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Summary: An alltime favorite!!!
Review: She's Come Undone has become my alltime favorite book....probably the only book I would ever consider reading over and over! I didn't want to eat or sleep while reading this book, I just had to keep reading! There has never been another book that touched me this way! Thank you Wally Lamb and Oprah Winfrey from the bottom of my heart, for the read of a lifetime.
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Summary: My all-time favorite
Review: This is an absolutely fabulous plunge into the life of a girl who faces or embodies any number of real problems that almost any human may endure in his lifetime. The main character is incessantly challenged with tragic ends and unrealized dreams and comes close to defeat, yet she somehow sees her way through to the light. This is the funniest, saddest, most insightful book I have read yet and I find myself re-reading it annually.
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Summary: Wally Lamb's "Shes Come Undone" is an amazing read
Review: If anyone has every felt mass amounts of heartache then they can easily relate to this book. Lamb expresses a female's point of view in a way that I didn't think a male was capable of. The rashness of Dolores's actions in this book are spell binding. The story keeps you wrapped into it tightly untill you can no longer stand to put it down because you can't wait to find out what the conclusion is. I think that everyone should read this(atleast every female) because this book is one amazing eye opener and will change your perspective on amny things when you have finished it. It's a must read!
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