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Binding: School & Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780613033206
ISBN: 0613033205
Label: Topeka Bindery
Manufacturer: Topeka Bindery
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1999-10
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Topeka Bindery

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Summary: Engaging
Comment: I believe the character Deloris from the book "She Comes Undone" by Wally Lamb is someone most people can relate to on one level or another. Does it undermine the moral fabric of a society in way? That's a question each one of us may have to ask ourselves. Deloris, by hook or by crook, gets involved with every deadly sin in one form or another. You just hopes no one in the real world will have to face these hardships.
By the way, I see from reading the reviews on this site some people have recommend my book, "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," and again I just want them to know how much I appreciate their recommendation, especially at such a excellent site. I wrote this book out of love and for the glory of God and Jesus, not for my own fame or fortune. I welcome people to read my book, I'm sure you'll find this non-fiction account of a loving God just as and inspiring.

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Summary: A Strangely Fantastic Read
Comment: This book was wonderfully complex and embarrassingly painful at times. I was previously reading 'The Hour I First Believed' by Lamb and heard that this book was more captivating. I have not yet finished reading 'The Hour..." but I think they may be right. This book is so much more multidimensional and rich with personality. Each thought and feeling that goes through Dolores' mind is communicated in this book. At first I felt a little uncomfortable being that close to someone else's deepest most secret thoughts (some hit a little too close to home) but I quickly became addicted. While many people can't 100% relate to Dolores, I bet many at least see a little piece of her in all of us. Whether it was feeling less than adequate in high school, being 'the fat girl', the victim (I don't want to give too much away), or any other number of complexes that Dolores possessed. This book truly has something for everyone!

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Summary: One of my most-favorite books
Comment: I keep very few fiction books, prefering to pass them along either by giving to fellow readers, selling at yard sales or donating to charities. This one has been on my bookshelf for so long now I can't remember.

I loved this story enough to re-read it several times (another thing I do rarely).

One of my favorite lines in the book is "My whole life still hurts." (I may be misquoting--recently loaned the book to my daughter!) But, that's the idea, and if you've lived through loss and pain and heartbreak and crazy, you'll love that line, too.

I hope you'll also love the rest of the book. Wally Lamb is a terrific writer and his characters are so well-developed you'll think you surely already know them. Or, maybe are them.

Highly recommended--this one's a keeper and worth the reading.

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Summary: Fascinating Book
Comment: Although this women Delores in this book "She Comes Undone" has so many problems in her life we somehow relate to her on some level. She has a troubled life as a child, becomes an obese adult, attempts suicide during her first semester in college than spend several years in a mental institution. All these disasters somehow make for an interesting book. I think people relate to this character Delores because they have similar problems finding something good in their life. This book ties in to another book I read that helped me in many ways. It's entitled "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone" by John H. Eagan. I'm sure you will love how it show one how to live without so many disasters.

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Summary: She's come undone
Comment: This was a great book. I looked a couple to times to make sure it was a male author. Really could relate with this woman's struggle for her own identity.

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"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.