She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) | Wally Lamb

She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) | Wally Lamb | Truth in fiction

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	She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club) Wally Lamb Pocket, 1998 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 1679 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I loved this book!

I cannot believe I haven't read this book before. I found it at a book sale recently and started reading and literally could not put it down. Wally Lamb has somehow tapped into the female psyche perfectly to write this deeply touching novel. It's amazing that a man could get inside a woman/girl's mind and heart the way he does in this book. Dolores is a troubled, tortured, yet very realistic and lovable character and Lamb makes you feel every ounce of pain, insecurity, fragility, regret and love she feels. I didn't find it depressing at all. There is a lot of humor and I loved Dolores' snappy sarcasm. Sure, she has a lot of obstacles in her life, but I didn't feel at all depressed by this book. It's about life and family and healing. Very realistic through the eyes of a troubled girl. I will definitely read more of this author's books.

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Truth in fiction

I can't say enough about this story!
Some might find it depressing but what would really be depressing is if stories like this were never told. I found so much truth to it.
Children learn what they live and when they live around people who hold secrets in, they don't learn how to deal with the real world.
I think that stories like these can be the best medicine for people who have gone through similar situations. Not only does it allow them to feel as though they are not alone with their feelings but it could help others, who have never experienced dysfunction or victimization, be able to understand and hopefully gain some compassion for these poor souls.
It also showed how much of an impact we can have on other people's lives...how bullying hurts and how kindness is always the best path...

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She's come REDONE!

Wow! Just wow. Just read this book. Right now. Read it right now!

Universality amid Women!!!

She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)
I just ended the novel and, although not one of my favorite titles, I must accept I could not put it down. Dolores Pierce, the heroine whose life from 4 to 40 is related in a sort of autobiographical manner, is a portrait of what womanhood can be all about when life gets dreadful. Thinking in retrospective, it is my humble opinion that, at one point or another, the totality of us women has had in her lifetime some trouble or troubles similar to what Dolores had to endure during the associated time-span. Call it rape, abortion, infertility, death of loved ones, wrecked marriage, bulimia- the constant gulping of food into her body -, obesity, self-indulgence, chain-smoking, psychiatric hospitalization and psychotherapy, sexual harassment and contradictions, keeping secrets from spouses and self pity, amongst others. That is precisely what makes the novel worth a read- its universality especially amid women.

In spite of the fact that Dolores seems utterly cynical and sarcastic throughout this time span, what strikes me the most is that in reality she comes out to be a very sensible subject, who suffers immensely prior to, all through and afterwards her misfortunes take place. Nevertheless, she turns out to be a very strong willed, hardworking and centered woman that at the end turns out to have a sort of "normal life". Besides, she is an incredibly great and noble acquaintance and believes in true camaraderie.

I give five stars to this work for its great writing as well as for the amount of research that the author- a man- must have done in order to come about a believable heroine whose universality will always stay into our lives well after we have known about her whereabouts. I give two stars, one the other hand, because at some times I felt the whole plot was sort of predictable.

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Good story

To me, this story is a cross between a Judy Blume book and Forest Gump. It was very good, but did seem to drag at times... it was close to 500 pages. She lives a dramatic life (you go from early childhood into her adult life) and the author does a great job painting the picture in your mind with wonderful description. It will tug at your emotions and can be difficult to put down. Some parts were a little raunchy for my taste with homosexual encounters. I would have liked the ending to have turned out differently. I don't believe you will be disappointed with this one, although it can be exhausting with as much life that is covered in one book with such drama involved. I could see this being made into a movie.

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