Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone: A Novel

Pros: This is a fantastic, memorable book.
Cons: Some might find it depressing

Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone is quite possible the book that most influenced and impacted me. I’ve read the book three times now, and each time it seems like I am revisiting a long lost friend. What’s most ...

Pros: An entertaining novel that doubles as a self-help book
Cons: Sexual situations may be disturbing to some readers

“Why?”

Have you ever lain in bed at night, casting countless apprehensive glances at the alarm clock to calculate how many potential hours of sleep remain, all the while having that one word – that one unrelenting question – repeat itself over...

Pros: The Main character is so realistic
Cons: Dysfunctionalism at its best......err, worst.

Ok I can tell what you are thinking. Not another Oprah book club book right? But wait! This one is actually worth the time and effort to get through it. Wally Lamb has sucessfully captured the essence of womanhood in this paperback book. Colorful...

Pros: strong, intelligent, and witty main character, fast-paced story
Cons: the ending was a big too simple for my taste, lots of pity parties

While perusing the cheap $5 paperback section of Target last week, my eyes ran across She's Come Undone. It sounded somewhat familiar but, after reading the back cover blurb, I couldn't remember what it was all about. The plot sounded ...

Pros: Powerful story, emotionally gripping,
Cons: A little wordy, sometimes hard to stay focused while reading

A good friend of mine stopped by to visit not too long ago, leaving me with a good pile of books to read. She hoped that the reading would keep me busy for a while!!! I have just finished the first book, She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb, and I...

Pros: Perhaps most powerful story I have ever read
Cons: Sadly, this stuff happens in reality, far to often

The book, She's Come Undone was simply one of the most powerful books I have ever read.
The best recommendation I can give to this book is, in my opinion, that this book should be required reading, issued at birth, to every set of parents who...

Pros: complex characters, better written than some Oprah's Club picks
Cons: not for people who are tired of sob stories and tales of dysfunction

Experience has made me wary of Oprah's Book Club offerings, so it was with a little trepidation that I checked out this book from the local library. The conclusion is... I didn't hate it. :)

Author Wally Lamb offers a novel...

Pros: A story that keeps pushing forward.
Cons: A few pages were bogged down by whining.

If Dolores Price were a real person, I wouldn't blame her for being depressing or angry --- every possible bad thing you could imagine happens to her in Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone."

But you know what?

This isn't a depressing...

Pros: Well written.
Cons: Complex situations sometimes overwhelm the underlying story.

I repeatedly looked back to the author bio not believing that a man had written such insight into womanhood.

Wally Lamb shares an amazing story about a young girls journey into maturity. Delores Price, beginning at the age of thirteen is...

Pros: Insightful, compelling, disturbing and triumphant
Cons: N/A

I just finished reading another epinion on Wally Lamb's "She's Come Undone" and the comments made were so far from my own feelings I felt compelled to write an epinion of my own.

Dolores is lost. In any sense of all senses, she has...

Pros: Good Insight, good story line
Cons: Maybe a bit too long

This is a book that sort of grabbed me in the dark recesses of the mind that are not too often open to scrutiny. Although the writing was of a different format, the emotions that hit me were similar.

I believe that nearly every...

Pros: Characters written so well defined, you can almost predict what they do next
Cons: (pervert alert)- the sex scenes were not detailed enough...sorry

She's Come Undone written by Wally Lamb is about a girl named Dolores. The book begins when Dolores in 4 years old, and ends when Dolores is around 40 years old. As I read the 465 pages of Dolores's troubled life, I saw what she saw, felt what she...

Pros: Excellent writing and compelling characters
Cons: Would not appeal to people who don't enjoy reading about "bad things"

I began reading this book with a lot of trepidation. Someone on Epinions had said it was by far the best book on Oprah's list, and I had heard people talking about how wonderful Wally Lamb was. But ... I knew I didn't want to spend my time reading a...

Pros: convincing voice of the protagonist
Cons: I'm not big on sexually explicit writing

I thought it amazing that a male author such as Lamb could capture so convincingly the voice of a troubled young girl and record it in a engrossing story of overcoming depression and self-depreciation to find some degree of stability in life. Here is the...

Pros: Well Written, Easy Read, Great Story, Wonderful Characters
Cons: Too Much Drugs Use, Some Material Hard To Deal With

She's Come Undone is a book looking into the life of a girl growing up with pain and hurt building inside of her. Dolores Price grew up in a broken home. Her father left her mother when she was very young and Dolores never forgave him for it. Then...