false 5203 30 <b>Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1997</b>: "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." So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's <I>She's Come Undone</I>. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. But Dolores is no quitter; she battles her woes with a sense of self-indulgence and gluttony rivaled only by Henry VIII. Hers is a dysfunctional <I>Wonder Years</I>, where growing up in the golden era was anything but ideal. While most kids her age were dealing with the monumental importance of the latest Beatles single and how college turned an older sibling into a long-haired hippie, Dolores was grappling with such issues as divorce, rape, and mental illness. Whether you're disgusted by her antics or moved by her pathetic ploys, you'll be drawn into Dolores's warped, hilarious, Mallomar-munching world. 1003370 1992 She's Come Undone total:42846|5:337|4:402|3:285|2:108|1:56| 42846 158455 49825 3756 1 38 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Jul 12 02:02:56 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 02:16:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 27 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Fri Jul 13 09:12:23 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 12:46:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 13 false false Fri Nov 02 15:39:22 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 15:49:39 -0700 2007 Here is a review by someone named Colin who I don't know but I c...more...]]> 3 13 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 14:15:54 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 12:42:00 -0700 2007 I read some of the other reviews before writing this and I was surprised at how many women we...more...]]> 1 13 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Wed Sep 26 13:33:42 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 13:37:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 11 false false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 04:09:27 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 08:31:47 -0800 2008
A week after finishing this book, I still have conflicting opinions. It’s hard to synthesize them into a coherent review, so I’m just going to summarize what I liked and disliked.

On the plus side:

Easy to read: The story is to...more...]]> 2 9 false false Mon Sep 24 09:13:55 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 16:06:24 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:55:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 12 false false Tue Jul 15 11:52:46 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 11:53:00 -0700 2008

To be blunt, I didn't like it. It's hard to know where to begin when explaining my dislike for 'She's Come Undone.' Wally Lamb, t...more...]]> 1 10 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Jan 24 12:45:47 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 08:23:45 -0700 2008
I also have to admit to having personal knowledge of the author - which in no way colors my opinion of this book. Mr. Lamb was a writing teacher at my high school in CT and actually helped me quite a bit in writing my college ...more...]]> 1 7 false false Sat Aug 18 22:37:12 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 22:42:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 8 true false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 09 13:20:13 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 17:23:18 -0800 2007 1 6 false false Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed May 21 18:23:23 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 18:40:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 00:15:20 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 12:52:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 7 false false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Apr 25 15:21:45 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 15:05:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Wed Mar 07 11:23:46 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 07 11:26:25 -0800 2007
Yeah. Good luck with that one.]]> 2 3 false false Thu Dec 27 20:31:40 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 20:47:38 -0800 2007
Is plot message? Perhaps not, but when a man writes...more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Oct 01 16:50:21 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 22:41:57 -0700 2007
She’s Come Undone is the story of a troubled teenage girl growing...more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Feb 21 03:52:32 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 22 16:48:14 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 5 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Aug 16 17:01:39 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 17:22:18 -0700 2008
Is that too harsh? Okay, then I don't understand how Oprah could have hated us enough to unleash this painfully uninteresting, largely unlikeable character onto the mass-market shelves of greater America.

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I kept plugging away at this book hoping it would get better. My mantra became "I don't have to like it for it to be worth reading." I had heard some great things about it, after all, so I kept hoping I would get something out of it. But a...more...]]>