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I Know This Much Is True

I Know This Much Is True

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: too deep
Review: Although the overall story is compelling, the lengthiness deters from the theme. The details and storyline kept me reading even though I had trouble getting through some of the more verbose passages.

THIS MUCH is a moving story and you get completely caught up in the characters. Each character, especially the two brothers, are extremely well developed. You will easily identify with their problems.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Book I Have Ever Read!
Review: Not once was this book boring, I couldn't put it down once I started reading. It is very long, but it is undoubtedly one of the best books you will ever read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Spectacular Book!
Review: There are lots of eloquent reviews that go into great detail on this book, so I'll make mine concise: I Know This Much is True is beyond doubt one of the most powerful and satisfying books I have ever read. It pulsates with life. It resonates with such authenticity that even now, months after finishing it, there's a little part of me that believes somewhere out there the characters are still going on with their lives. Read this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dysfunction on Parade
Review: Wally Lamb's writing continues to amaze and humble me. In this book he weaves an intricate story into your subconscious and pulls you into its characters and setting so powerfully that you feel every heartbreak and triumph in the hero's life. While the story revolves around a pair of identical - yet disparate - twins, the real protagonists are family, emotion, dysfunction, pain, healing, weakness and strength. I'm sure I'm not the first reader who found herself mesmerized, unable to look away from the pages at 3:00am. I would however offer one caveat to the reader: be sure you are emotionally ready for this book, as most everyone is bound to find a character here that is disturbingly familiar.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Well worth reading
Review: Yes, you've heard already that this monster is over 900 pages. But, rest assured, it's not hard to read. I don't regret buying it for a moment. The voice of the narrator is particularly strong, and there is no one character or episode that seems unbelievable. But somehow, at times, I'd consider the odds of all these particular events happening to this particular person, and my credibility was stretched a little thin. But even so, reading this book is a fine way to spend a day. Very imaginative.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome!!!
Review: This is undoubtedly one of the best books I have ever read! I passed it along to three other people and they all agreed. Astory within a story within a story--Fantastic! There are very few books I will pick up a read for just a few minutes (while stiring dinner on the stove) just to see where it is going next. This is that kind of book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Depth of Character and Plot Rarely Seen; Simply Superb
Review: From time to time a book comes along that grabs you by the lapels and throws you in its pages. While "I Know This Much Is True" touts itself as an exploration of the relationship of a twin and his scizophrenic brother, it is so much more. It is a story rich with themes, suprises and real human characters. Lamb effortlessly weaves through time looking at the present, the recent past and the history of a family several generations back. I cannot find fault with the book. I found myself racing through its 900+ pages but at the same time regretting finishing it. Sometimes, the ending of such a long novel can be anti-climactic. It was not here. It finishes with few unanswered questions and a lot of closure. This book was much better than Lamb's earlier novel, "She's Come Undone" and I look forward to his next work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: (I'm on bended knee) - "Not Worthy..".
Review: I see so many reviews, and my only hope is that through the voice of my humble opinion, one more person will pick up this outstanding novel and read it through to the end to be as moved and awed as I was by this truly amazing story.

Late at night (very late, because I couldn't put it down), while reading Dominic's grandfather's book within a book (the cherry on the sundae), I would tip-toe to the living room and shut the door so that I could read and laugh out loud and not wake the whole house.

If you love a good story that gives you memorable characters - get this one - it is phenomenal.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST BOOK I've ever read!!
Review: This heart-warming book detailing the life of twins, one normal and one mentally challenged was a total wake-up call. I had a difficult time putting this well written book down. It was fantastic to see how the troubled normal brother, Dominick Birdsey took the "world on his shoulders" feeling he could solve Thomas' and Ray's problems and carrying on a normal life for himself. Until he himself found help through the wonderful doctor, you begin to see gradual changes in Dominick from one having a total attitude to one who finally has a full and complete and happy life. The only thing I didn't like was that it ended! I wanted to hear more!!

This book is well written and if you DON'T buy this, it's your loss. Don't let the nearly 900 pages scare you away. This is a VERY fast-paced book that's difficult to put down. You'll want more and more and more.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A literary Masterpiece-Read It!
Review: I was initially skeptical about all of the glowing reviews of this book,and all of the hype surrounding its "Oprah" status, given my hatred of the overly schmaltzy Brigdes of Madison County; that, combined with the subject matter [mental illness and despair] initially delayed my reading of this book. I'm so glad I decided to read it. The story of protagonist Dominick's life history [as an emotionally abused child, whose identical twin develops schizophrenia, and is at that same time very much loved brother, and a horrible burden] is intertwined with the history of Dominick's horribly unlikeable grandfather, Domenico. Domenico's written "autobiography," which Dominick is reading at the same time we are, alternates with both younger Dominick's life story, and what is happening in the "present" to him. Sound confusing? It would be in the hands of any other writer, but Wally Lamb masterfully interweaves the stories, going seamlessly back and forth in time, pulling it all together in a terrific ending.

Without giving too much away, Dominick never knew who his real father was; when the book opens, his grandfather and mother are both dead, his wife has left him, and his brother is on his way to a mental institution, not for the first time. His only other living relative is his hated stepfather, who abused Dominick and his twin brother when they were young.

As Dominick reads the autobiography of his arrogant grandfather, also an abusive man, and reflects [along with the reader] back on his own hard life, he unwittingly learns lessons about his family history, and how to live with his mistakes, and to forgive others theirs.

The story is really one of heartbreak and despair, followed by eventual foregiveness and salvation, which might sound sappy, but is really wonderfully executed. Take my advice, and give Wally Lamb's book a shot. You won't regret it.


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