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Summary: You REALLY Can't Put It Down ...
Review: ... and the reason is the thing is just so massive. Once you get it hefted into a comfortable reading position you feel you must keep turning pages (as I did for a day and a half) or you'll never be able to lift it again. And then, when you finally put it down, you keep wishing you didn't have to leave all these fascinating people. If Wally had just dropped the last chapter from this one, amplified it into 900 more pages of "This Much I Know Is True 2" I know I could easily (and happily) go the distance again.
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Summary: a bitter disappointment
Review: I was so ready to thoroughly enjoy this book. It starts out with a good idea: identical twins, one schizophrenic, one not,the guilt, the pain, the burden that brings, but never quite follows through. I get the sense that Lamb is trying too hard to write like a man, after he had done so well writing as a woman in She's Come Undone. The text seemed to me too pre-packaged- tough male who needs to get in touch with his feelings, and while I enjoyed this man's search for and through his past (most esp. the memoir of his ego-centric grandfather), the book offers no meaningful end, just a hollow token so we might feel like Dominick has gotten everything he really wants, but then we have the awful realization that it was just another sugar coated, sell-out, ending that left me for one quite unsettled and unsatisfied. 900 pages leads to this? It seems to me that Lamb fell asleep at the typewriter for the ending and let Danielle Steel finish his book for him.
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Summary: The most engrossing novel I've read this year.
Review: After reading "She's Come Undone" in 1992, I've waited patiently for six years for Mr. Lamb's next novel. I was not disappointed. He is truly a gifted writer.
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Summary: Please Read the Book!
Review: This book is truly amazing! Wally Lamb has sewn a blanket of life in I Know This Much Is True. Each piece of the blanket is joined together by life's trials and tribulations so that by the end of the book I was afforded an opportunity to wrap myself up and feel secure despite many of my own fears. Thanks Wally!
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Summary: Dysfunction Central
Review: I didn't think this book was worth the trip to library and hours I spent reading it. First, it was similar to Lamb's first novel "She's Come Undone" in that it throws in every possible form of dysfunction into one small family. What bothered me even more were the stereotypes of every race/group (Italians, Jews, Feminists, American Indians to name a few). I would not recommend this one.
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Summary: An Amazing novel
Review: I was intimidated by the size of this book when I first got it. Once I started reading it I could not put it down. Wally Lamb allows you to get to know many characters, not just the main one. I look forward to reading other books of his.
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Summary: I was moved by the shocking contents of this book
Review: How two twins can be so unalike is the most interesting part of this book though it was well written I still found it to be very confusing in parts. The use of the language was very strong in some parts. What got me the most was the way Thomas was abused by his step father. And in death he never did feel like he won his fathers love . I reccommend this book to read if you have the time becuase once you pick it up it can be very hard to put down .It will really make you think about how cruel people can be and make you Thankful for the Family God gave you.
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Summary: It's good, but it's no "She's Come Undone..."
Review: Wally Lamb's new novel is very promising at first, but he fails to continue with the remarkable development of his characters at the very end of the book, like the reader experiences in the beginning of the novel. It's a very good and very developed piece of literature, and I still highly reccomend it. I also reccomend not to buy it until it comes out in paperback. Possibly I got my hopes up too high after reading "She's Come Undone," but I still did not get the same good feeling like I did when I finished "She's Come Undone." I kind of felt like Lamb got tired of writing this novel and kind of just "passed over" the ending of the book. To get the full feeling of closure, it should have been at least another 100 pages long. It IS a good book, and it is very easy to get lost in, and yes, you will finish it within 3 days, but be careful: Don't get your hopes up too high.
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Summary: it did not want it to end, what a wonderful story.
Review: I still have a few more pages to read but I am reluctant to read them because I do not want this story to end. How does one write such characters that you love one minute but hate the next? How many of you out there found yourself arguing with the book, defending Thomas when Ray was attacking him from all sides. And you get the impression that that is what the author wants you to do. And the grandfather, my god someone please knock that man off of his extremly high horse, anything to stop him for spouting all his wisdom to anyone who will listen. Anytime I read his life story I want to throw the book across the room because he irritates me soo much, but again you need characters like that in books otherwise there is no drama or interest. All in all, an exceptional book, andI cannot wait for his next one.
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Summary: Realistic fiction - until the ending!
Review: The best part about this book are the complex characters. Iwould find myself disgusted with Dominick - his arrogance, his filthymouth, and his weakness. But then his goodness would shine through and I would have to re-evaluate my feelings towards him. While the plot kept the novel going, the characters were the reason for reading it. However, when I finished the book I could envision Mr. Lamb saying to himself, "Oh my goodness - I am on page 870 and haven't gotten close to the ending yet! I had better hurry this thing up!" Because that was what I felt happened to the ending. It wasn't closure - it was tidying up the characters and their messy lives. Way too happy-endingish for the complexity of these people, especially Dominick. The pages wasted on his grandfather's memoirs (the highlights would have sufficed) could have been used to develop a more realistic reuniting with Dessa and his psychological rehabilitation.
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