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Summary: Buy it!
Review: Wally Lamb wrote a book with no plot to speak of and an unattractive, outcast of a protagonist who is (to put it mildly) less than heroic.Having said that, why on earth would I rate this book with five stars??? I picked She's Come Undone up on a Friday evening, and did absolutely nothing all weekend but read. Lamb sucked me in from page one, and wouldn't let me go until I learned everything about the inner life of Dolores Price that no one in her mostly miserable life took the time to. And I was not at all sorry that I did. Dolores taught me some things I needed to know. Anyone who has had someone close to them attempt or actually commit suicide knows that the "inner dialogue" is the depressed person's worst enemy. Dolores' internalization of a lifetime of abandonment, abuse, rejection and, self hatred was expertly identified, analyzed and displayed by Lamb in ways the average human being would never see so clearly. What Lamb did was show how a child born in perfection deteriorates into an adult who would contemplate her own annihilation - a documentary of the process of self destruction if you will. To truly appreciate Lamb's craftsmanship, simply imagine that is your task to expertly write the most intimate (and sometimes disgusting) secrets, fantasies, fears and hopes of an unattractive, unhappy member of the opposite sex - and somehow - still have your readers care enough about the character to want to read (and finish) your book. Not many writers are that gifted. Read She's Come Undone if you want to experience a true craftsman's work. I purchased this book through Amazon.com right after another great purchase, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez, about an unlucky writer addicted to the personals. Both are intense, recommended books. Enjoy!
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Summary: Like a good movie where you don't want to leave at the end
Review: Starting a new book after finishing She's come undone, was hard. I felt empty and didn't want to part with Dolores' life. I have been wanting to read this book for a long time, but haven't been able to find it in Sweden where I live. I read I know this much is true last fall and REALLY like that one, too. On my vacation in California I bought the book and read it and LOVED it. It was very sad in parts, but also funny and touching. I both cried and laughed out loud, reading it. I found reading time that I didn't really have. My 2 year-old was trying to get my attention, but he had to play by himself, until I was finished. The only thing I missed at the end, was Dolores getting pregnant, but maybe that would have been just a little too good. I imagined the story going on after the ending. In my ending Dolores finally has a baby girl with her husband. Thanks for a great book, Wally Lamb!
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Summary: A Good Ending
Review: I was expecting this book to be awesome, b/c I had read good reviews about it...and really expected to like it. I was getting bored until around the 3rd/4th chapter and off and on during the book...it wasn't all bad though, and the last 100 pages or so really brought it all together.
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Summary: okay
Review: this book isn't necassarily bad. It's fairly well written and is funny and insightful in places. While reading it i just felt like I had read it all before and did not really address anything new or interesting. The secondary characters seem to come and go so quickly it's hard to really get to know any of them. It gets a little tiring as Dolores makes bad decision after bad decision so she can finally "triumph in the end". Again it's not a bad book, it's just a little too stereotypical.
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Summary: Can't believe it's written by a man.....!
Review: Yes, Dolores Price is disgusting. She's crude, vile, pathetic, disturbed, etc etc. No, she isn't much of a feel-good heroine at all. She does, however, have something in her that every woman can relate to. People who say she doesn't are either kidding themselves or they aren't reading much into her character. This book is a fantastic chronicle of a woman's life from early childhood to middle-age. She goes through horrible ordeals, and in fact, many of them are self-imposed. But it makes for great reading. I can't believe people say it's unbelievable that she could go through all she went through....while it's not an ordinary tale of a young woman, it certainly isn't outside the realm of possibility. Don't read this book if you're easily offended. Dolores Price is pretty much amoral. There's a lot of swearing, self-destructive behavior, and disturbing themes in general. For those of you who don't care about that sort of thing-- I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. I've read it at least 10 times. I've never felt so much pity for, anger toward and affection for a character in a book before this one.
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Summary: Amazing....
Review: What a wonderful book!!! As a 15 year old, i found some parts a little sexually explicit, but not too much so.
this book was extremly engaging, and had a great ending. if you liked this one, you should definitely read I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, it is more lengthy but i liked it a lot more.
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Summary: I Was Pleasantly Surprised
Review: I had been debating on whether or not to buy this book for quite a while and finally did. At first, I didn't think I would like it. Boy, was I surprised. This is such a GREAT BOOK !!! I am finding it hard to put it down for very long. Definitely a wise purchase !!
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Summary: An engaging and well-written story, for what it is
Review: This story is one woman's struggle to overcome a "bad" life. It is a timeline of parental turmoil, adolescent angst and the cruelty of peers, self-medicating obesity, rape, and the rippling impacts from these events. I instantly bonded with Dolores Price, the main character/voice of this novel, which is something I usually have a difficult time doing with fiction. I enjoyed the writing style, particularly how the details in Dolores' young life are sketchier than the details when she is older. That is very real; the events we perceive to have occurred in our lives, as children, are not always capable of being fully understood; we are not able to give a full or complete dissection because we are lacking maturity and experience. But those events, or at least the perception of what those events were, can and do shape our personalities and our perceptions of our selves. The funny thing is, even though it is a series of events that are depressing, I never felt depressed. Even though the main character is mostly frightened, weak-willed, and lacking in self-esteem, I never thought "Get over it, already!" Even though, in the back of my mind, I might have thought so many bad things would never happen to someone in the real world, when it was over, I didn't want it to end, and I was curious to know what had become of some of the lesser characters - - that, to me, is the sign of a good read. Leave me wanting more. When I was done, I realized it reminded me of 'The World According to Garp', which I read almost twenty years ago and whose characters are still locked within my memory banks. Yes, there are some sexual situations, which may be annoying to some "fragile" souls, but I figure if you regularly read contemporary fiction, you should be used to those already. Honestly, a character dabbling in a lesbian situation is no more immoral than a married woman running off with a mysterious photographer for a week, a la' 'Bridges of Madison County'. I'm still not ready to jump on the "book-of-the-week" bandwagon, but I can honestly say that reading this book did not leave me with a sense that I had wasted my time, like other books have in the past. It was pure serendipity, a nice escape, and I like it when that happens.
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Summary: Undone, well done
Review: I picked this up after having had my copy for several years. It was a little slow to start, but "She's Come Undone" is the kind of book that becomes very addictive. It is tragic, fascinating reading. I am, however, mystified by reviews that characterize this as funny, though, because while wild, warped, sometimes amusing and totally absorbing, it's not really funny. The detail with which Mr. Lamb writes is so vivid, this books plays like a movie in your head as you read. You can almost taste the curtains Delores chews on and visualize the "flying leg" painting her mother gives her. And you can feel her sadness, her desire to connect, her longing for love and acceptance. He has created a character I know, and when we part ways at the end, I really care about her and hope that her future is happy at last. I gave this book to my 18-year-old stepdaughter and now she's equally mesmerized.
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Summary: I'd give it 0 stars
Review: This guy can write, but what he wrote was trash. Thinly veiled lesbian pornography was the WORST. If you have any moral fiber I do not suggest you even open this book. I threw this one in the trash, so no-one else could be inadvertently offended because of my purchase. No more Oprah's Book club for me. Be careful who's advice you take on book reviews.
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