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Summary: Another great book by Lamb
Review: At first I hated how Dolores acted towards her Mother and Grandmother. I didn't like her negative attitude and foul language but then again she went through alot. I started to like her towards the last few chapters when she finally said to her Grandmother that she loved her, how she wanted her Mother by her side after her death, having found true friends and having found Thayer made the book even better because even though this is fiction I can rest assure that Dolores is doing just fine. Great reading.
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Summary: Rooting for Dolores
Review: I have had this book for over a year, but didn't pick it up because it seemed quite long (I never have much time to read). I decided to give it a try over the long Thanksgiving weekend, and couldn't put it down! Yes, Dolores Price is pitiful, rude and usually down-and-out, but also funny and eventually likeable. I think we've all had times where our self-pity gets the best of us. But, persistence and determination can overcome!
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Summary: Yawn! This book insults your intelligence
Review: Several people recomended She's Come Undone to me...I forgive them only because it was a fast read and I didn't waste too much of my life on it. Lamb seems to have taken a couple of psychology courses and written a story about a character constructed by textbook examples for why people are how they are...including why women get and stay fat, stupid revelations about female sexuality (and he is not very insightful on the subject, especially when he has the main character, in her search for love and acceptance, have a sexual encounter with another woman and has this crisis about being gay. Give me a break!), and recycled family dysfunction/death/divorce/guilt. Plus, every personal revelation that the protagonist makes is so heavy-handed and driven into the ground that it made me angry. Totally unoriginal work. Very little skill in layering, clues were obvious and made you unsimpathetic to Dolores' plight, all around a waste of time, no matter how fast the read was.
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Summary: Boring and annoying
Review: The only reason I gave She's Come Undone 2 stars instead of 1 is because I actually read the entire thing (usually I stop anywhere from 20 to 100 pages into a book I don't like), and I also laughed at Roberta's radio show. I can't believe it took that annoying little brat forty-some years to get over herself. She was sarcastic, but she wasn't funny. I enjoy wit, puns, and sarcasm, but Dolores was just annoying. She should have just went under in the middle of the book, and the rest of the story could have been about Roberta -- now there's an interesting character! I understand that people go through many tragedies and don't immediately get over them, but this was just too much for a work of fiction. Her story didn't even come across as that tragic. What's "tragic" is that some readers are appalled at some of the "disturbing" scenes in the book. I guess all of the Disney movies were rented the day they decided to read the book.
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Summary: A real page turner!
Review: When this book was recommended to me, I never believed that I could be so riveted to a story as I rapidly became to this one. What was most startling to me was that it was written by a man. I never would have believed that a man could put himself into a woman's shoes, so to speak, so completely, and capture every feeling and thought so perfectly. This was just not the story of a fat girl who loses weight (along with a lot of other things), but the story of the human spirit which, though sometimes bruised and battered, can ultimately triumph given half a chance. I loved this book and really hated to say goodbye to Dolores. I would sure love to run into her again!
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Summary: A Modern Classic
Review: How one event in a girl's life can change it all. This amazing book, whose male author surprises the reader with his amazing ability to "be a girl," will not only envelope you in its tale, but transform your opinions on people, or a person, you had once placed judgement on. Peeling away layer after layer (good and bad) of the human spirit, "She Come Undone" is well on its way to becoming a must-have personal library book. Not a second of disappointment.
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Summary: Everyone should read this book
Review: I absolutely loved this story! I felt every emotion as I followed the story of Delores from childhood to adulthood. I think that every person can find a piece of themselves in Delores...
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Summary: From a Man Who Has Mastered the Art of Being Convincing
Review: Wally Lamb is one of the best authors I have ever had the pleasure to read. This first-time novel is amazing! It is almost unfathomable that a man can be so convincing as a female character. From the age of four to nearly middle age, he lays out every gritty detail of Dolores Price's life. Some have called it depressing, but if you ask me...I have never met a girl who didn't hold on to a little inner torment every once in a while...the difference is, Lamb finds a way to make it humorous as well as serious. You will fly through the pages and you'll be sorry to see it end. You will laugh out loud, and I can almost guarantee that everyone will find a little something they can relate to. You'll be lucky if you can stop at one read!
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: This books was so wonderful. When I first started reading it, I wasn't sure how much I'd like it, but a few hours later I couldn't put it down! It's now one of my favorites!
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Summary: Unbelievable...too long...too depressing
Review: I read this book expecting the central character to overcome her trials of youth (isolation, obesity, rape, addition to television, etc...)and blossom into a strong, motivational character. Instead I got one tragedy after another. I tossed this book into the wall when I finished. I found it a little unbelievable that so many tragic events could happen to one girl before she was even 20 years old. There were too many characters that had minimal importance to the story. The part that really upset me was her turbulent marriage to Dante where she apologized for everything he said and did to her. Then in the last 2 chapters marries Thayer based on convenience in effort to have a baby. Whatever! The book ultimately dragged on and on to a very anti-climactic ending. I wouldn't recommend it.
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