She's Come Undone

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Summary: Start reading again with this book
Review: Recommended by a dear friend. Touches your heart as you share in the emotional rollercoaster ride of Dolores Price in her long struggle to the books triumphant ending.

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Summary: Oh Please!!!! The Dumbing down of America continues
Review: Although I read this book without putting it down, it was only because I was waiting for something insightful to occur. The lack of insight and depth of the characters in this book is incredible. I have witnessed first hand disfunctional family issues (including a suicide) and have personnally been in therapy. The superficiality of this book's handling of these issues is astounding. After 20 years of working in corporate America and taking an early retirement, this book has reminded me of why, when I first viewed daytime TV after all those years I felt like I had just entered a "stupidity warp". Knowing this book was recommended by Oprah reinforces my impressions of current daytime television and the pervasive superficiality of many of our societies views regarding relationships. WAKE UP AMERICA!

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Summary: This was the best book that I have ever read!
Review: I loved this book! I always had to look at the authors picture to remember that it was a man writing this book! He did an awesome job! I can't wait for his new book to come out!

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Summary: Lamb unravels his protagonist in "She's Come Undone".
Review: Wally Lamb has done an extraordinary thing as a male author in "She's Come Undone": he's written a novel from a woman's point of view. Perhaps the most amazing thing about this observation is the fact that he has established Dolores's womanhood through tracking her growth into it from adolescence. Craftily, he has made her a believable character. I think it is the title of the book that has made me want to reflect on its contents. "She's Come Undone" suggests a poor, helpless girl who has lost sense of herself, like Humpty Dumpty after his fall, and cannot manage to get himself back together again. However, the interesting thing about "She's Come Undone" is that it is not until the end of the book that the negativity surrounding the title fades, allowing us to see the alternate meaning of these words with which they were intended. When Dolores "comes undone", it is a positive thing; when she sheds her many excess pounds, she reveals her real self, the one that she'd been hiding for the entire novel. Like a mummy having its wraps pulled, Dolores spins and unravels until her outer layers fall to the floor, leaving only her true, inner beauty in place of her hefty facade. What Lamb wants us to conceptualize once we've closed his book, is that beneath the negativity of all things, there is in turn always something better, something hopeful, and something inspiring to be found. Within the pages of this tragically-titled novel, such beautiful things exist.

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Summary: Stupendous job Mr. Lamb!!!
Review: I purchased this book from a book club because it had a catchy preview paragraph. I was mesmerized, sneaking in a paragraph at work, at the stoplight, wherever. There is a waiting list for my friends to borrow this truly marvelous book. I have read many of the reviews about this book, almost all 10's and a few 2's saying that it was unreasonable? But why? Many people live a life like Dolores, although her character is an extreme, but that's what kept me reading about her life. Who wants to read a book about a girl with a bad childhood who got raped and got over it and had a normal life? The trials and tribulations of her unlucky life made me think and understand why people are the way they are. I think this was an excellent novel about coping and turning away and denial and coming undone, and living. Thanks Wally Lamb!

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Summary: Entertaining!
Review: I was very impressed that a male could climb into the essence of a female and portray her so vividly. Yet, Wally Lamb did so with great enterainment.

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Summary: This book left me wanting more,
Review: Somebody tell Wally Lamb we want to know what else happens to Dolores, Thayer, Roberta and "Chilly J." Just because she got her life together I can't believe that Dolores' life would get boring! I want to know what happens!

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Summary: Is this what the author really thinks women are like?
Review: A naked woman swimming with a dead whale, the most unbelievable coincidences since The Perils of Pauline, a main character who poisons the fish tank of her lesbian lover, a cast of stereotypes (the caring gay teacher with AIDS, the straight-laced grandmother, the handsome but philandering English teacher, the gossiping female workers at the grocery store) - what was this author thinking of? This book read like a TV talk show!

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Summary: Average
Review: This book came highly recommended by a friend, but after reading it I was wondering what all the fuss was all about. I would not recommend it. It started well but it lost its juice before middle of the book. Getting to the end of the book became a chore

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Summary: A DOWN TO EARTH AND ENTERTAINING BOOK
Review: IT'S NOT REALLY A "HARD TO PUT DOWN "BOOK BUT IT GIVES MAXIMUM IMPACT ON ONE'S PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE AFTER READING THROUGH DOLORES' EXPERIENCE IN LIFE. YES, HER EXPERIENCES ARE UNBELIEVABLE BUT SO ARE OURS!! I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO A FRIEND BUT IT WON'T BE THE FIRST BOOK THAT WOULD COME TO MIND.