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Summary: *Wonderful*
Review: I got this book last christmas from my grandmother. I looked at it and I didn't have much of a desire to read such a big book that would interfere with my busy teenage agenda. But I sat down the nextday and started to read it. And Wally Lamb's amazing attempt at being a man writing a book through a woman's perspective, pulled me away from my reality and caused me to lock myself away in my room until' I was through with it. I kept having to remind my self that a woman didn't write it. This book remind's me much of my self and how hard it is to go through life being a overweight teenager. The charicters that made fun of her such as the two sisters that lived down the road, make me want to reach inside the book and slap them cause they remind me so much as my past and present enemies. I could feel her pain, her obessions, her anger, and I felt like I was there, I WAS HER. I do warn that this book is very adult and complicated, and I don't reconmend it for anyone who isn't mentaly mature enough to handle the grown-up language and situations that engage within this book. I am 15 years of age, but I have been raised in a home where the reality isn't locked up and hiddin away from me so I can stay shelterd from the disturbing truths. I will not tell you the story for I think that you should explore it for your self, but I wanted people know what the book did for me, now go out and read it and find out what it will do to you.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: If you ever thought your life was "bad" or not going the way you wanted it to...you should try walking in Doloris's shoes. If anything bad in the world could happen--it was going to happen to Doloris Price. This book is a must read. It is about not only personal triumphs, but about the spirit of a woman that cannot settle for what life has chosen to give her.
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Summary: REALISTIC, EASY TO CONNECT TO
Review: I couldn't put this book down, and everyone else I know that has read it has said the same thing. Every woman should be able to relate to this book one way or another. It is amazing to me how a male writer could write such a powerful story about a woman.....just another one of Oprah's great book picks.
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Summary: Difficult but worth it.
Review: This book was very hard for me to read, tough to stick with and if I hadn't been reading in in a book-group I probably would have quit.But I am SO glad I didn't. It was completely worth it in the end and parts of it still have me thinking weeks afterwards. One of the great tricks Lamb pulls in this book, is that at first the secondary characters seem quite two dimensional. But the real reason that is so is that our main character Delores looks at them that way. By the end of the novel, there are no easy answers and no simple characters. It has a grand finish and some of the scenes in this novel I know will stay with me always.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: I don't need a thousand words to review this book, just one: breathtaking.
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Summary: The best book I have read yet.
Review: I love this book. Its sad funny and amazing. I could not wait to see what was going to happen next in this book evreyfelling evrey thought was something new for her and for me too. A couple times I felt like I was her. She is a hard carictor not to relate to and even harder to hate and to not understand. Evreyword in this book just inraps you into the book even more. I say once you read this book you will never feel the same about anything agin and you will think twice about critizizing people no more or at least less if you do critisize people. But besides that this is the best book you will ever read at least the second best book
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Summary: Great book - couldn't put it down
Review: Though I have never had a weight problem such as the heroine in this book, I'll bet that most women can relate to the self-doubt that Dolores felt -- you know the feeling when things are going wrong around you and you often will blame yourself? I would highly recommend this book!
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Summary: I know Oprah liked it but...
Review: I think Wally Lamb misses the mark a few times in this book, and I think it is in part because he is a man writing from a woman's perspective. The book is a fairly easy read, with a compelling but sometimes very depressing story line. It left me wondering what experiences Wally Lamb may have drawn the story from.
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Summary: THIS is your favorite book???
Review: My mother lent me this book, and I got through it in about a day & ½ -mind you, only because I'm a fast reader, NOT because the book is "the best book I've ever read"! Also, I was genuinely curious to see if this wretched soul EVER improved herself - though I had serious doubts about finishing it. **WARNING**This book is classed as a YOUNG ADULT, but there is NO way I would hand this to a kid to read!! Full of foul language, bad attitudes, self-pity, HIGHLY graphic sexual situations and a plain out nasty view of life in general, this is NOTHING a growing young mind should get hold of! Besides all this, the book seemed pointless and meandering to me. Dolores was unpleasant, shallow and hateful BEFORE the rape - the rape did not make her that way, it just amplified all her many awful qualities. Sure, her family was dysfunctional & abusive - this is not a license to be suicidal and vindictive! She denigrates everything and everyone, spitefully uses & rejects her friends & family, then sinks into an abyss of self-pity - she ignores her spirituality & completely divorces herself from God or any expression of faith, then wonders why her life is useless and friendless! The small bits of good in her life ( that we are fed with a spoon at the tail end of the novel ) are unsatisfying and unreal, tacked on to make a nice ending, and so distinctly contrived it was annoying.YOU wanna read this, go right ahead. I'm just really glad I didn't waste my money on this thing, and sorry I wasted my time on it. If you want REAL literature, try some of the classics: Mark Twain, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Herman Hesse, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austin, Dante, Shakespeare or even Louisa May Alcott for god's sake, just don't waste your time on this tripe.
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Summary: One word: CLICHE'!!!!!
Review: Wally Lamb has a knack for taking other people's problems, finding all of the stereo-typical character traits that go with said problem, and writing a depressing, unimaginative and quite uninspiring story. I threw the book away. Something I never do no matter how bad!
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