I Know This Much Is True

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Summary: I highly reccomend this book
Review: Very good book kept my interest!! Thought the memiors could have been a bit shorter began losing interest with them. very indepth book esp. in describing the emotions of the key character. In fact at work I was telling everyone to read it!!!

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Summary: A captivating page-turner
Review: It is rare to read a book and after you've finished the last page, want to start at the beginning and read it again, that's how enthralling it was. I myself am an identical twin, and Lamb did some serious homework to capture the "twin-ness" that he cannot know firsthand. Sure this particular family had as much dysfunction to deal with that is bordered on the unbelieveable, but the story kept moving. I would compare it to Victor Hugo's literature: how all the disparate threads were neatly woven together at the end, very satisfying. Sure, the narrating twin is the strongest character; Unlike Dostoevskis Brothers Karamozov where each brother represented something higher, other stronger characters voices would have diluted and perhaps even confused the tale.

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Summary: Only after 850 pages---a chick flick screenplay!
Review: I cried, "FOUL!" after slugging through 850 pages (and not finding one developed male character)to reach an extremely dissatisfying ending. Note to Lamb: hire someone else to re-do the last ten pages. Aw man, I was snookered.

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Summary: Love the book!!!
Review: I specifically waited till the weather turned colder to start reading I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE. And I loved every word of it. Mr. Lamb is a great writer. Can't wait for his next book!!!

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Summary: I already miss everyone now that I'm done!
Review: I plan on rereading this book every so often, but I recommended it to everyone I know so I could read vicariously through them for a while and re-live everything that happened. When I started the book, it jumped around a lot and I thought 900 pages would be impossible to deal with. Then, I became engrossed to the point of thinking about everyone on a regular basis. I talk about them like they are people I know in real life (but it feels like I really do). I wish it went on even longer and that the end was not so thrown together. I loved being able to see a guy's emotions so vividly. If Dominick were real, I know I would want to befriend him. It's one thing to read a novel about some perfect guy who can sweep a woman off her feet. It's another thing to see a guy as totally vulnerable and emotional, but tough on the outside. Even though I just finished it tonight, I'm going to have memories of it to last me a long time. Despite what anyone else says, I love how he put an extra story within the novel. It kept me even more interested. I was not expecting Thomas to be killed off so soon. The irony astounded me. Some predictions I made were correct, others took a completely different twist. Wally Lamb has a great flair for irony. As much as I fell in love with "She's Come Undone," I love "IKTMIS" so much more. I didn't even want to finish it (as much as I wanted to know what happened) because I wanted to savor it and allow it to go on as much as possible. Thanks for writing this, Wally Lamb. It has made a deep impact on my life, if not deeper than the one "SCU" did. Thank you for giving Dominick a chance to change his own life, as well.

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Summary: An excellent read with twists and turns...heavy but easy to
Review: I am a mother of twin sons, so this book was especially powerful for me. It not only looks at mental illness, but looks at family relationships and the very strong twin bond, that is so very hard for non-twins to understand. I gained great perspective about my own sons struggle to untwin and twin at the same time! Although this book was very deep, and the subject matter at times morose, it was easy to read and easy to follow. She's Come Undone made me feel weird at the end, but this book makes me feel like there is hope when there is self-realization. I loved the book and spent my time recuperating from surgery reading it. It's a long one, but well worth the hardback investment!

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Summary: 901 Wonderful pages!!!
Review: I enjoyed this book tremendously!! I hope others won't pass it by due to it's length, as I almost did. I read this book quicker than some one fourth it's size. You become so involved that it draws you back when you put it down, one of those books you can't wait to get back to and put off finishing because you don't want it to end. I was totally engrossed from the first page. I will miss these characters now that I have finished this book! Wally lamb is a wonderful story teller and I can't wait for his third novel!

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Summary: The Best Book I have read in Years!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It was very well written and the characters came alive to me and I missed them when it was over. It moved me to tears often and I couldn't put it down for all it's 901 pages!

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Summary: A life-long favorite
Review: This is possibly the best book I have ever read. There is such a richness to every character; you feel as if you know them as well as you know a close friend. Even when you don't agree with their actions, you know why they react in the way they do. I have recommended this book to every person I know--men and women; young and old. It feels like such an accomplishment to read such a long book, but it reads so smoothly that it felt like 8 pages instead of 897! I didn't want this book to ever end. It was an absolute pleasure to read.

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Summary: You will be hooked!
Review: I loved Wally Lamb's first book so much, so looked forward to reading his second one. Yes, his stories deal with a lot of misery (i.e. divorce, unrequited love, mental illness, fringes of unnatural sexual acts), but everything is believable. He treats all of these 'trials and tribulations' in a realistic way. Being of Italian descent, I especially enjoyed all the references to 'omerta', 'evil eye', and other superstitions. The way that Wally Lamb paints pictures of his characters make it easy to envision meeting and/or knowing such people. One of the best results of reading the book was that you are uplifted by the 'lesson' that Domenick learns and appreciate the extents he goes through to right some wrongs.