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... Jin, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka).
I'll Fly Away, an anthology of women's prison writings collected by Wally Lamb (of She's Come Undone fame). Looks excellent.
The latest edition of the PEN America journal, with contributions from Chimamanda Adichie, Cynthia Ozick, Chinua Ache ... #21 She is definitely a book that requires some dedicated reading time! It's been sat on my shelf for a while (bought as the 3rd book in a buy 2 get 1 free splurge) and I've taken it to read on the train, but never quite got started with it, several times. Once I got in to it though, and became ... ... The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, which I found more intriguing that Ms. Gregory's books.
How did you do with She? I've started it several times, but seem to need to have a concentrated period of time to get past the first 20 or 30 pages. ... and I know I'll change my mind as I think longer on it.
In no particular order;
King Solomon's Mines 1885 and
She 1886 by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard was the Steven Spielberg of his day. Even if his some of his charactors aren't want we would call politically correct ... ... remember.
Some novels seem written by one gender, even when I know they were written by the other.
For example, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I still have trouble believing a man wrote that book.
My wife doesn't read any of it. She reads books, but more along the lines of She's Come Undone or The Pillars of the Earth.
But we both enjoy SF and Fantasy video - serious or campy, so we 'vegetate in front of the TV' in a compatible way. We'll happily eat dinner while watching Star Trek, Xe ... She, by H. Rider Haggard
and Watchmen.
... always female marge piercy
a good man is hard to find flannery o'connor
the violent bear it away flannery o'connor
she's come undone wally lamb ... Gary Shteygart
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset
3. Post Office Charles Bukowski
4. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
5. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6. Replay - Ken Grimwood
7. The End of Mr Y Scarlett Thomas
8. Fup Jim Dodge
I've enjoyed ... ... from a bit of an emotional crisis and this should do the trick. Easy to read, and easy to get lost in!
37. (New) She by H. Rider Haggard ... Gary Shteygart
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset
3. Post Office Charles Bukowski
4. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
5. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6. Replay - Ken Grimwood
Read so far: 6
To Read: 2
Crime & Detectives
1. The Naming of the D ... Even cowgirls get the blues Tom Robbins
She's come undone Wally Lamb
We have always lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson
Every thing that rises must converge Flannery O'Connor
One flew over the cuckoo's nest Ken Kesey
I had some long train journeys last week so read a lot.
6. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
I really enjoyed this. It was an epic tale about one woman's life from childhood to her late 30s. It was bleak in places but also very funny in parts too. The ending was kind of happy without being a ... jfetting in reference to message #59
She has been made into a movie several times, 1925 silent version is very good.
The 1935 one with Randolph Scott is excellent. I think Steven Spielberg had to be familiar with this one due to Harrison Fords outfit is almost the same as Leo Vincey (Scott's) ... ... fully for getting people to read things they wouldn't have read before, and to read more challenging books. While I loathed She's Come Undone, many people loved it, and it's a big step above your typical drugstore romance. And, That's a Good Thing (R) (but that saying belongs to Oprah's ... ... Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteygart - read
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset - read
3. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb - currently reading
4. GB84 David Peace
the rest are tbc.
Book Club Reads
1. Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett - read
... He is a drunk and a gambler, but very funny. I will be reading more of his work in future.
Currently reading
6. She's Come Undone - this was the first book I swapped on the readitswapit website but I never really fancied it that much. But someone over on readitswapit encouraged me ... Halfway through the year and I should be at fifty, but I'm not so many books so little time.
44.She's come undone by Wally Lamb loved it.
45.For one more day by Mitch Albom made me cry. ... Lottery and Other Stories: stoning
for Lucky: A Memoir: rape
for The Lovely Bones: murder, dismemberment
for She's Come Undone: rape
I'm sure people will have more to add for each book, but these were the ones I could come up with from memory.
I'd also like to suggest ... ... book, can't remember the title--the environmental one--and really enjoyed it, although I never read Crichton at home. And She's Come Undone was a disaster as a vacation read--I thought the pretty blue ocean cover said "Hawaii," but the book certainly didn't!
She's Come Undone? I've read She; I think it had one of the strangest endings I've read in awhile.
What about The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble?
By the way, this thread has been getting sort of wonky when I try and open it lately; I have to reload it once or twice to get it to load properly. Is anyone ... #36 I'm sure I've read more offensive books, but the one coming to mind right now is She's Come Undone ... obese to the level of people staring at you on the street is not 200 pounds. That's only one of the more egregiously false aspects of the book
I don't remember being offended by ... ... thought the book would be too. Oops.
I'm sure I've read more offensive books, but the one coming to mind right now is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I don't generally read that type of books but one of my friends foisted it on me. What I found so offensive is that I found myself ... ... :o)
Black Dalia by James Ellroy
Grisham's Skipping Christmas
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty and Be Cool I loved the movie "Be Cool," thought maybe I'd like the books
For BookMooch, Love in ... ... 6 books each and then for myself I got:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmong
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Corset Diaries by Katie MacAlister
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Auntie Mam ... ... Name of the Wind would get my vote if we're going to go for a modern fantasy story.
Other classic works? Erm...
She by H Rider Haggard?
Any Tarzan book, perhaps? I'd really like to read some Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff...
... use the dystoian one instead. If you had a chance to live in a Utopian Society like the ones in either Lost Horizion or SHE would you or could you live there? Just think of it no wars, poverty, crime, everyone gets along the perfect place to live which of course is what Utopian Societies are ... If you had the chance to obtain Immortality like in the movies Lost Horizon or SHE would you? Would you deicde to stay there knowing that if you remained you would be Immortal but if you chose to leave the boundaries you would age fast and crumble to dust like in the old Hammer Dracula movies ... Oh, here's another:
Yes, she caught whatever remains of the day far from the maddening crowd.
OK, I'll stop I'm having too much fun with this and I'm fighting with the touchtones. ... Tolstoy is really good at all his women characters, from children to old age. I thought Wally Lamb did a good job in She's come undone
Also Larry McMurtry's Calamity Jane & other characters. I really liked both She's Come Undone and The Poisonwood Bible. My other favorite choice is Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. Loved that book. Now I liked Prodigal Summer and was so disappointed with the Poisonwood Bible. I'll try She's Come Undone It's on my TBR pile. I adored She's Come Undone. Granted it got quite dark in the middle, but what a funny quirky book. :o)
You know, I would have read The Poisonwood Bible even if Satan had put his logo on it, Barbara Kingsolver is one of my alltime favs. (Though Prodigal Summer was a bit of a yawn.) ... Banks
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Blindness by Jose Saramago
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
1984 by George Orwell
and more than a few runners-up.
Author Winners of the Most Disturbing Book (which means their 'votes' were ... ... Meany ,also by John Irving, better. Have you read either or both of them yet?
If you like Wally Lamb, have you read She's Come Undone? That might be a possibility. Is it She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb? Haunted by Chuck Palaniuk
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding ... Man's Battle - Stephen Arterburn
5. The Rule of Four - Caldwell / Thomason
6. Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
7. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
8. The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
9. Jemima J - Jane Green
10. The Eye of Horus - Carol Thurston
11. Once ... ... waiting for me but I have several dozen waiting in the attic. On my soon pile I have Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Collected Works by Oscar Wilde, Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer, Empire Falls by Richard Russo among others. ... waiting for me but I have several dozen waiting in the attic. On my soon pile I have Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Collected Works by Oscar Wilde, Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer, Empire Falls by Richard Russo among others. ... in and out, in such an entertaining way that you can't put the book down.
For me, Sculptress by Minette Walters, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb and, of course, all the Harry Potter books fall into this category.
... es
Brandon Sanderson: Elantris
Fiction
Caprice Crane: Forget About It
Wally Lamb: She's Come Undone
At least one book by Jodi Piccoult since I have a few unread
Foreign Language:
Arlene M. Jullie: Quick-Start Spanish
Bregstein Barbara ... ... Big by John Crowley (6/10)
3. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
4. Dragonlore by Ashley Dekirk
5. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker
7. Cravings by Laurell K. Hamilton (7/10)
8. Kiss the Girls by James Patterson I'm currently reading: Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller, The Blood of the Walsungs by Thomas Mann and She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Last night I finally finished You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers, which was well-written, but I still am not quite sure what it was about. ... - Christina Schwartz
10. Cage of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard
11. The Twins of Tribeca - Rachel Pine
12. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
13. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracey Chevalier
14. Babyville - Jane Green
15. Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney ... ... ambert
19. When Rabbit Howls Truddi Chase
20. The Best Laid Plans Sidney Sheldon
21. Animal Farm George Orwell
22. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
23. Lovers & Players Jackie Collins
24. Border Fire Amanda Scott
25. The Architect Keith Ablow
26. Mystic River Dennis Lehane
27. ... Well, in no particular order, these are my top 5 for the year:
1. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
3. Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule
4. Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
5. The Best Laid Plans by Sydney Sheldon
Honorable Mentio ... ... The world it's set in is fascinating - I love the concept of how it's shaped by what people believe and wish.
#251: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Another book that was simply okay. It didn't seem to be going anywhere; it showed the main character as she grew up, but there was no real ... She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb - I have no patience for characters (or real people) who sit around complaining about how bad life is and how much the universe is conspiring to make them miserable.
The Crown of Silence by Storm Constantine - SOOOO boring.
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin - ... So far I will have to say it's:
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule
Still got a month to go so maybe I can add a couple more to this list. I agree She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. That was hard book to read. But, what was harder to read and for completely different reasons, No Country for Old Men Holy @$*#-- This book was terribly graphic but, I couldn't put it down. Parts of She's Come Undone made me laugh out loud as well as Spanish Lessons by Derek lambert My 3 choices out of what I've read this year so far would have to be:
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase
and a tie between Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and
Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life in Spain by Derek Lambert 4 - Cinnamon-Girl
I really have to disagree about She's Come Undone. Maybe it's just me, but I came away with the impression that Wally Lamb had never even had a conversation with a woman! Oooh, that book made me angry! Hands down my favorite read for October was She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Great story. Didn't want it to end. Either She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, or A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Both were well written, but left me feeling really unsettled. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 22. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (*****)
23. Lovers and Players by Jackie Collins (***) ... she said, was that she couldn't tell the difference between the singing and those screech owl girls in the audience.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb ... Books You Must Read Before You Die list, but are in my TBR pile which is just as big if not bigger. I'm halfway through She's Come Undone and love it so far. Poor Dolores. LOL Thanks for the suggestion. I'm enjoying She's Come Undone so far. I sat up for 3 hours last night reading it. I just couldn't stop. I liked She's Come Undone when I read it years ago, but it is a bit melodramatic. I recently read I Know This Much is True by Lamb, though and thought it was fantastic. Just thought I would throw that out there... Starting on She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Finishing up Animal Farm by George Orwell and starting She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Been anxious to read this one for a while. Glad to finally get to it. Thanks to all the well-wishers on my part-time adventures in Borders. So far, no bite. #131 ladybookworm, I also have She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. In fact it's 2 books away from being read. I'm currently reading The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon and then it's onto Animal Farm ... ... e:
Communion by Whitley Strieber
The Dark by James Herbert
The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Regina's Song by David Eddings
The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass
Faerie Tale by ... ... referenced in this installment (most obviously Dracula, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Invisible Man, but also She, King Solomon's Mines, Sherlock Holmes stories, and other more offhand references). Edited: I forgot Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Duh!
As always, Moore and his ... ... - Alice Walker
I Am Becoming My Mother - Lorna Goodison
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
It's Raining Pigs and Noodles - Jack Prelutsky
Something Big Has Been Here - Jack Prelutsky
Meet Mr. Mulliner - P. G. Wod ... Agree with those who said She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb was a horrible book. In fact, it's very possibly one of the worst books ever written. Awful, awful, awful.
And jagmuse, are you maybe talking about "Genesis and Catastrophe," by Roald Dahl? (That's a short story, not a whole book, ... Oh! I own that book but I haven't read it yet. I just read She's Come Undone last year, and I loved it! Wally Lamb is brilliant, with a great sense of humor, to boot. Ahab's Wife
She's come undone
To say nothing of the Dog
Yellow Raft on Blue Water
The Lost Steersman As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Them by Joyce Carol Oates
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Half Broken Things by Morag Joss
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shattered by Dick Francis
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey She's come undone by Wally Lamb ... and The Shadow of the Wind (which I would have liked if it had been 300 pages shorter). And I really, really disliked She's Come Undone, which was such a disappointment after the pretty cover.
Also, I have to say that I was shocked when I finally read Tuesdays With Morrie--THAT was a ... 7. Dolores ja lentävä jalka - She's come undone by Wally Lamb
I kept this book so many times in my hand considering whether I should read it or not before I finally decided to read it. It was definitely worth reading, funny and sad at the same time. Hard to describe my feelings about ... I would say that I Know This Much is True is better than She's Come Undone--it doesn't cover nearly so much time, for one thing. The topic was really interesting to me, too. It has been so long since I read She's Come Undone that it is likely that I would have a different opinion of it now. ... To be honest with you, I didn't really like She's Come Undone. I found it to be pretty boring overall. It's not the worst book I've ever read, but it comes pretty close.
I haven't read I Know This Much Is True, and I don't plan to, given what I thought about his other book. ;)
Ah well ... I read She's Come Undone a while back and really enjoyed it. Well, enjoyed may not be exactly the right word, because it was very disturbing, but it was a good book I thought. What did you think of it? Have you read I Know This Much is True by the same author? That was a great book, too. I ... ... Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Right off the bat, I really disliked the characters. They didn't do anything for me.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. I wanted to reach into the book and THROTTLE Dolores. She remains one of my least favourite literary characters.
The Hitchhiker's ... ... Dean I plan to read the following:
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
and several ... #164 - Wally Lamb is a fabulous writer - I recently read I Know This Much Is True and have She's Come Undone on my pile TBR later this month. Why didn't Lamb write more books?!?!??! From the pages of She's Come Undone, which has made me break down into very real, cause-pain-behind-your-eyes kind of tears several times:
".... For a second I thought he was going to hit me. But I couldn't stop. I'd propelled myself in some way that felt both scary and right."
I'd like to thank xicanti for agreeing with me on She's Come Undone. It was recommended to me from a number of people and I don't understand why. If someone would like to explain why it was such a great read I would appreciate it. Maybe I missed something ... #84 filmfan14 - She's Come Undone definitely ranks up, (or should I say down?), there for me as well. I'll admit, I didn't finish it, but I honestly don't think I could've stood Dolores for another hundred and fifty pages. I wanted to reach into the bood and throttle her. She remains one of my ... #84 - Oh - filmfan -- I just loved She's Come Undone. It was depressing but I thoght Delores was unforgettable!
One of the worst books that I have ever read that is supposed to be good is Them by Joyce Carol Oates. It won the National Book Award and it is listed in 1001 Books. . but I ... I have to say there are two terrible books that I have read in the last little while. The first is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb and the second was Heaven by V.C. Andrews. Just a waste of time. This past week I finished She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, which I was kind of ambivalent towards; read Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, which I found really charming although not particularly meaty; and started The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey, which I'm enjoying so far (also, logically I ... Yesterday I bought with my Target gift card from Mom:
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Eragon by Paolini
Night by Elie Wiesel
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Me Ta ... ... mood since Christmas - can't put my finger on why. I managed to pay attention long enough to get about 70 pages into She's Come Undone this afternoon, and so far so good, although it's not enough yet to break the general reading malaise.
I'm still listening to The Thirteenth Tale, ... I read She's Come Undone a while back too. I remember being frustrated with Dolores too, but drawn in by the writing.
I read King Dork last month and I was disappointed with it after all of the hype. I read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist last month too. I liked the writing and the ... ... Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Singer's Crown - Elaine Isaak
Ombria in Shadow - Patricia A. McKillip
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
The History of Danish ... I just finished She's Come Undone. Overall it was an ok book. At first I hated it and wasn't sure I would make it through it. Mainly because Dolores frustrated me so much! Now that I have gotten through it I appreciate the novel and the writing. However, I am find myself wondering a few ... I made it about halfway through She's Come Undone before I had to abandon it. Dolores bothered me way too much.
I'm coming off an E. Nesbit binge. Next up is Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman; after that I'll probably read The Prestige by Christopher Priest and The Museum at Purg ... I remember reading She's Come Undone quite a while back and enjoying it. I had very high expectations for King Dork, but I have to say, I ended up hating it!
Right now I just picked up The Truth About Forever from the library of the school where I work. I am about 80 pages into it and ... I am about half way through She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb for an adult book club I am a part of, but definitely would be appropriate for YAs. I feel like it deals with everything--body image, emotional eating, death, family relationships, etc. I am not sure that I like it, but will ... A few years back, I got into a reading group at work and read She's Come Undone. Man oh MAN, was that ever awful.
Almost as bad as Song of Solomon, which I had to teach to freshmen a decade back. That one made me want to Lysol my brain.
Other people have touched on books I love to hate . . ... Just finished Peeps and started She's Come Undone. I am not sure if I like it yet, but I have to read it since I am the one who recommended it for our adult book club. I have heard good and bad things about it both from adults and YAs. I think She's Come Undone had an authentic feel to it. I remember forgetting it was written by a man and kept being surprised by that fact.
... of authors who put themselves in the opposite gender when writing a book (e.g. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb? I'm reading She's Come Undone for the first time and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the second time.
I'm really enjoying Undone. I didn't think I would.
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