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ISBN-13: 9780671003753 - ISBN-10: 0671003755 Publication Date: 1996 Pages: 465 |
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Book Reviews of She's Come Undone
118 Book Reviews submitted by our Members
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Nancy V. (
8 member(s) found this review helpful.
Unbelievable author; disturbing, funny, heartbreaking -- how this author gets into the head of an adolescent girl, I don't know. A must read.
Kat W. (
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is, hands-down, my favorite book ever! Told in first person, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel like you REALLY know Dolores and everyone she encounters. Wally Lamb has an amazing way of writing so you can see, feel, taste, smell the environment! It's painful, it's heart-wrenching, it's uplifting...it's just the best book I've ever read (and that's saying something).
As much as I LOVE PBS, you will never see this book posted by me - I love it too much!
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
I loved this so much I read this multiple times. Told in first person, Dolores Price (the main character) is so heartbreaking and believable I had to keep looking at the cover to remind myself that a man wrote this book. That's how convincing the writer is. You will love this book!
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
Not as good as "I Know This Much is True" but still a very good read. The main charachter is Dolores Price, a morbidly obese woman, who transforms her life and body...she is a funny heroine. A good read.
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book changed my life.
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great story...troubling and a page turner at the same time. Prepare to feel uncomfortable, but unwilling to put it down!
Carly C. (
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
I expected not to like it -- I was very wrong!
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
I just couldn't put this book down! The characters are very interesting and likable. The story of this young woman is one I just won't forget!
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is about a girl coming to terms with who she is and finding that person within herself, a very complex novel and written well
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Based on recommendation from an online friend, I ordered this book through PBS. It was a most amazing book, truly touched my soul. I had a hard time putting it down once I started reading. Lamb is a compelling writer and goes into such detail about this young girl's life - almost as if it were first person.
I highly recommend She's Come Undone - as well as Lamb's other book, which I'd already ordered through PBS and had to read as soon as I finished this one.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
A friend of mine recommended this book to me before I even knew it was on Oprah's book club list.
Dolores is an absolutely remarkable character. Wally Lamb is a remarkable writer who has an extraordinary gift with character development. Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down.
It is interesting to read about a character who becomes enlightened before the reader's eyes. Dolores deals with so many trials and tribulations that it is hard to believe that she survived to be an adult.
For anyone who wants a good book to read, this is the book. Dolores will touch your heart.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of my all time favorite books! I think I've read it about 6 times so far. Dolores is a very intriguing and complex character who goes through a whole array of trials and tribulations in her life, including rape, obesity, abuse, and mental illness, yet still manages somehow to overcome. You won't want to put it down.
Michele S. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I just love this book. There's something about Dolores that sticks in your mind. I've read it several times and love her more and more.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really don't understand why this book was such a big seller. Personally, I found the characters annoying. Wally Lamb wants us to hitch a ride on a journey of love, pain and renewal with the most heartbreaking comical heroine.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wally Lamb is a TOUGH read. BUT!!!! very well worth it. His characters are real!!! This is NOT his best work.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Since I had read "I Know This Much Is True", I was expecting more. I'm sorry to say I was disappointed. I will say that Wally Lamb has a way of letting his characters go haphazardly through life. Sometimes wonderful, surprising things happen along the way, and sometimes not really - this book includes the latter, in my opinion. His second novel is definitely better.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of my favorite books of all time. First and foremost I must say that the author (being that he is a man) did an excellent job writing from a woman's point of view. This heartbreaking story will have you laughing and crying as you are lead through the main characters' (Dolores') life long struggle with weight, self esteem, and relationships with men, women and herself. The book shows the heartbreaking effect divorce and lack of a stable positive father figure and emotionally unavailable mother can have on a little girl. Ultimatly the events of Dolores' childhood lead her to a downward spiral into depression and self loathing. Sadly it takes her many decades to finally face the root of the issues that have wreaked havoc on her life and relationships. However, when she finally does face her inner most demons she begins to "come undone" and heal. I have read this book about 6 or 7 times and each time i am overcome with emotion for this girl. An excellent read; as are all of Wally Lamb's books (unfortunatly there arent too many of them!) I would reccomend this to anyone and everyone! Well done!!!
April K. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
ok book. I found it at a flea market and had been wanting to read it for a while. I thought it was going to be a little better than it turned out to be but i digres.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I read this book in college and loved it. It is essentially a story about coming of age as a girl. Wally Lamb is a remarkable author.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was very strange, but you felt so hopeful for the character. Sometimes you are discouraged by her, but that what makes people unique.
Jenny B. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
What a roller coaster! Growing up with Dolores, starting at age 4. This book starts out funny, but gets pretty serious. It has some really sad parts. Some really funny ones, too. But in the end I think you'll be happy you picked it up!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A very good book about coming of age and personal image. It centers on a "fat girl" named dolores. The story follows her through high school and university and afterwards. I couldn't put it down!
Sarah K. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
The word that comes to mind when I think of this book is... disturbing. Not a book I EVER plan on reading again.
Lori O. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Recently read this for a second time.
Follows Dolores Price's journey from adolescence to adulthood.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wonderful book! Greatly enjoyed it. A true life lesson.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Suprising, funny, sad, infuriating, disgusting and wonderful, all in the same book. My absolute favorite author, and the best book I have ever read.
Suzann Y. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
The story of this young woman will shock you. It will make you laugh, cry and gasp out loud... It will just plain run you through an emotional wringer.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wow!!!One of the best books I,ve read. I read the whole 465 pages in an afternoon!!!!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A book I still think about! Very good!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of my all time favorites. Some good laughs
Keri (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wasn't able to get into the book so i'm passing it on.
Lisa L. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A very sweet, touching story.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
a book that i realted too..loved it
Nancy G. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Kind of depressing - but didn't stop me from wanting to keep reading it!!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a very good book. I was really surprised because my taste in books is much different from Oprah's. But this book has a great story (sad) but great.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is an extremely well written story of life, loss, and moving on. Beautiful and powerful story. I highly recommend this book.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This male writes so convincingly as a female you have to keep looking at the jacket picture.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is one of my favorite all time books. I cried through most of it. You really get inside this girl's head!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Compelling, touching novel about coming-of-age. "A journey of love, pain and renewal with the most hearbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years."
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
What a wonderful book. This is one to read and re-read.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood good-bye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This got great reviews, but I did't like it all that much as a coming of age book.
Jessica W. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Engrossing novel on the life history of a confused woman.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I found this book a compeling read, however, too many things happened to the main character to be believable.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Excellent!! Excellent Read!!! A bit of a train wreck, but extremely well written!!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A very good memoir- insight to Delores Price's world from age 4 to 40- tragic yet funny and moving. This is one journey you don't want to miss.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really liked this book. Not very realistic but interesting all the same. The mental health care system isn't nearly as efficient in reality. That doctor must not have had too many patients!
Heather O. All in all this is a good read, just didn't have much of a point in my opinion.
Denise This was one of the best books I've ever read. Wally Lamb gripped me with the first paragraph and kept my interest up until the very end. AMAZING BOOK!
I just wanted to say that this is such a GOOD book. While it was graphic in parts, and depressing and disturbing in others- it was just so well written. I flipped back and forth to the front thinking, "A man wrote this??" It writing was so VIVID. I didn't want to put it down, and I found myself rushing to hop in bed to read more. I'm sad that I'm done with it. Delores is such a great character becuase inspite of her issues, her sarcasm and wit just make you love her.
I truly enjoyed this book, and I feel it overshadows so many books I have read recently.. I will be keeping my beat up copy to read again and again!
Valerie (Emotional coming of age story. You really get into the head of the character and feel what she feels. Loved it!
Jill P. (Wow...I believe I must be one of the very few who was not impressed with this book. Good if you're a fan of melodrama.
Natalia W. (
Jennifer H. (A little sad sometimes, a little happy sometimes. Overall liked it.
Danielle C. (Great book, very empathetic towards the main character. You are really rooting for her, which makes the book hard to put down. For as many pages as there are, it is a fast read.
Michele R. (I LOVE this book. It's a book that always makes me think "awww, I loved that book!" when I hear someone mention the title. A great coming of age story with no fluff.
This book was very good - a little sad at some places but very positive overall.
I have read both books by this author and have truly enjoyed them both!!
Great book about a girl dealing with things that have happened in her live.
I've read this book a couple of times, and more than once had to look at the cover and remind myself a man wrote this book, not Dolores herself. Heartbreaking and believable, I read many of the pages with a lump in my throat.
Samantha Y. ("Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...."
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallmomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up.
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. She's Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price.
Tara G. (This book is an incredible read! Do yourself a favor and get this book :)
I haven't read this book, but it's had numerous positive reviews. The jacket describes the book as a coming-of-age odyssey of Dolores Price, a wise-mouthed thirteen year old.
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood bood-bye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with mallomars, potato chips and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up.
Loved every page of this book! Couldn't put it down. Wally Lamb is brilliant!
From the back cover: In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain and renewal with th emost heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.
Read this a few years ago.
It was pretty good.
Have enjoyed other books by Lamb
Amazingly life like. I enjoyed this book very much.
Irina D. (
Suzanne B. (Holy cow -- not what I expected, but I simply could not put it down!!!
April D. (Great story. I find it hard to believe that the author is male. His grasp of the female mind at different stages of life is amazing.
Maggie C. ("A heroine to cheer for... This supremely toughing journey to audlthood may remind you of The World According to Garp and other sagas of emotional liberation."-Glamour
i think this was wally lamb's best book.
he really managed to get into the head of a teenage girl AND get it right!
Interesting book... I felt for Dolores, but she annoyed me at the same time.
how can a man convincingly write from the voice of a woman at several different stages of her life? i have no idea, but he pulls it off so believeably. you start off feeling sorry for delores, and it gets pretty depressing. but when she finally makes the decision to get her life together, you're right there beside her and feel her triumph as she comes out stronger for it. somebody left a copy at my workplace and i started reading it every day on my breaks. i got so into it that i started bringing it home overnight. nobody ever mentioned missing it, so i never returned it! SO engrossing, SO unique. an absolute pleasure
the author writes so convincingly in the voice of a female trcing her life from 4 to 40, a very funny book
When I first opened this book the only reason I was going to read it was because I was depressed and my ex husbands name was Wally...As I read into the book I got more depressed and then I became hopeful for Delores and then happy for her....I forgot for awhile that I was sad...I have read this book around 9 times and everytime it moves me!!!
I empathized with Dolores and her struggles to come to terms with her difficult childhood.
Kimberlee E. (In many ways this is a walk down memory lane for baby boomers. An interesting combination of humor and heartbreak.
This is one of the best books I have read. This Author is just awesome! It is a must read!
Wally Lamb's writing is always so insightful and unique. This story of craving, of coming-of-age, of a young woman who is overweight and quick-witted is bound to engage any reader. A satisfying read.
This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read! I am in awe of Wally Lamb, he write so accurately as a woman. I could feel the pain of growing up a female. Excellent book!
I can't believe that this book was written by a man. It took me back to my growing up years - brought back lots of good memories. An excellent read.
You won't believe that it was written by a guy. I've never read anything so... written from inside a woman's head. Fantastic!
At the time I read this, I had just found out that three out of my five daughters had suffered some sort of sexual abuse by a neighbor. So this book, although was very well written, and a very good story... hit to close to home for me. I guess it's a book about finding yourself, over coming some major obsticles... abuse, death of loved ones, betrayal, non-exceptance, suicide and learning where to find happiness.
"Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood good-bye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up.
In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. 'She's Come Undone' includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price."
This was my first Wally Lamb book. It was depressing at times, but so real! I felt like I knew the girl in the book.
It made me want to read more by Lamb.
I love Wally Lamb's books! I have this book in hardback. I picked up this copy up at a garage sale, and it looked like it hadn't been read.
Larraine F. (Loved this one. Dolores is fat, mouthy, and wonderful!
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