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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read.
Review: I'd never tackled a book of this size before and was a little unsure how well it was going to keep me interested. I had a hard time putting it down. The way the author gets into each character makes you almost believe that these people exist and you're spying on their lives. I suggest it to anyone who truly enjoys reading.
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Summary: It was so bad, I couldn't even finish it
Review: The dialogue in the book was totally unbelievable, the characters were unlikable, and Wally Lamb was entirely too wordy. I found myself skimming paragraphs and saying blah, blah, blah, get to the point already. A very disappointing read, considering how good "She's Come Undone" was.
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Summary: A Very Powerful Story!
Review: The storyline drew me in and the exceptional writing kept me there. I listened to the audio version read by Ken Howard while driving back and forth to work. I found the trip to breeze by and myself not wanting to get out of the car! The book clearly touched the real struggles between love, hate, responsibility and independence. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: A Terrific Read
Review: I Know This Much is True is one of those books that once you started you are immediately hooked and is impossible to put down. Dominick and Thomas are two great characters that one will remember always, and I fell in love with Thomas, he was so "cute". Everyone MUST read this book, it is well worth the time. Once you start you realize how literature is suppose to be, and 900 pages never went by so fast!! I recommend this book to everyone. You will love this book. Wally Lamb writes in such a way that it begs the reader to keep on reading, and wishing that it will not end, but we all know that it must end. The only problem with the book is that it is so good, one gets mad when it finally ends.
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Summary: great attempt at making meaning from life and family pain
Review: Lamb takes such painful events as family abuse--physical and mental--schizophrenia's effects on both those it afflicts and their families, and the expression of inner pain in one's everyday life, and turns out a gripping saga. It promises the world but in the end fails to deliver the goods with quite the style he uses to set up the story. I Know This Much Is True tells us about Dominick Birdsey's voyage through the last days of his schizophrenic brother's illness, focusing on Dominick's own search for meaning in all the pain he has felt from and inflicted upon those around him. It details this pain through flashbacks and subplots within the main story line. Lamb weaves together vivid scenes of Dominick's life, and he details the sexual segments quite thoroughly, making it rather clear, whether intentional or not, that this is a man thinking and writing the story. No subtlety here. But neither does he spare us the pain of the numerous blows Dominick suffers and strikes. Loss of his child and his one true love echo through the story relentlessly, topping even his own abuse at his stepfather's hands. But in the end, it is this stepfather and his abuse which is the key to the larger story; it emanates from the various threads he unravels and reweaves as we follow Dominick through the months (and previous years)of his brother's illness. In the end, Lamb is unable to follow these threads to an ending that artfully or realistically fits together--it is too neat an ending--but getting there is still an engrossing and enriching trip.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!
Review: Wally Lamb played on my emotions and got me so engrossed in the characters I had a hard time putting it down. I went to the edge of hoplessness with the main character and then was brought back up with firecrackers.....loved it!
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Summary: The best and easiest book I have ever read!
Review: My wife recommended that I read this book. When I saw how thick it was I had second thoughts. I usually have a hard time keeping my mind on what I'm reading but with this book it was different. If Mr. Lamb keeps writing like this he will go down in history like the many authors we were forced to read in school. For someone who really doesen't like to read books, this book was a change. I'm hoping SHE'S COME UNDONE is just as captivating.
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Summary: absolutely one of the best books I've ever read
Review: I am a fast reader, and a constant one, and it took me one month to read this book. I was truly hooked and could not put it down. Just when I thought Dominick could not take another bad event in his life, he was dealt another one. His twin brother, Thomas, was truly his cross to bear and it almost did him in. The final uplifting chapter was just what was needed--Dominick triumphed in the end and got his woman back to boot. I am a sap and cry at the ends of sad movies, but I don't ordinarily cry at the ends of books, but I cried at the end of this book. A truly emotional journey by these troubled twin brothers should not be missed by anyone!
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Summary: Terrific book!
Review: I really enjoyed how the book went into both siblings personalities. I have twin sisters. And although they are not identical, they still have a bond. One is now having psychological challenges and the other cannot understand her behavior. Interesting when it happens to your own family. Anyway, I enjoyed the analysis part and the descriptions of their childhood. It made me think about mine and whether I am the way I am because of my upbringing or of because of my physical make-up. I guess we all wonder that.
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Summary: As engrossing a summer read as The Brothers Karamazov
Review: The last time I fell so much in love with a summer novel was the year I spent slowly devouring Dostoyevsky's story of brothers. I have slowly feasted on Lamb's work, the way I did that summer more than 20 years ago. The complex relationship of brothers, shared pain, battles of the mind for clarity and goodness over sickness, all of this combined with a portrayal of the main character's thought processes are engaging and ring true. Lamb deals with another theme which is adds to the complexity and dimension, those thoughts and feelings we inherit from our ancestors. "I Know This Much is True" is masterful study of a very human struggle. It is a book I don't want to finish!
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