I Know This Much Is True Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Wally Lamb
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
889

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Book Summary

#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection

"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."  — USA Today

Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin.

I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.   

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Book Name I Know This Much Is True
Genre Family Fiction & Literature
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.2 MB

I Know This Much Is True (Wally Lamb) Book Reviews 2024

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One of the greats of all time. Wally LAMB can write like the mastery writer imaginative and creative complex dynamic human experience can really be. He doesn’t hold back the ugliest the horrors or the abuses and oppressions that some are causing to others out of plain social status bigotry and ignorance but he can come to express the beauty the empathy the compassion and courage humanity can be as well

Long but good. Very good book. Enjoyed reading it and getting lost in the life of the main character. At times it gets slow..too detailed....but still. Very good book.

I Know This Much Is True. One of the best books I've ever read. Just finished reading this book and want to start all over again. Highly recommend it.

I know this much is true. The authors writing style is authentic which made this book such an easy read and so enjoyable

I know this much is true. Took me many many chapters to get into it. It was a very good book in the end.

Great!. One of the absolute best books I ever read.

Best book I ever read!. I've must've read this book at least 4 times, and each time I catch something I didn't read or notice before. It is an AMAZING story that is actually a story within a story within a story...if you can wrap your brain around that.... It's unreal"

Beautifully written and complex narrative. Well worth the read. The character development is exceptional.

Incredible!!. This book was great.. It really spoke to me about life and what is really important. It's a journey of self discovery for the main character and the reader alike. I couldn't put it down!

Amazing. This is the best book I have ever read. I first read it several years ago and continue to pick it up every now and again.

Great book!!. I loved this book. Would really recommended. I would spend my much breaks ready this book instead of eating lunch. It's that good lol. Great book would recommend. You want to find out the truth that continue to read because you want to find out what happens.

Worth every moment and every page. Amazing storyteller. There were times I had to “rest” from reading this book but was quickly drawn back and anxious to continue. Interesting and multifaceted characters, a bit of history and heartfelt life lessons. It’s a long and sometimes painful story but well worth every moment and every page. At times had me wondering when it would end but was disappointed when it actually did. Highly recommend. I’ll read more of Wally Lambs books.

Great so far.. I'm 12 yrs. old and currently reading this book. My mom recommended it to me and it is just AWESOME. Although I wouldn't give it to a nine year old, I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a great book.

Fabulous!!!!. This book is so gripping! It had me so engrossed that I even missed work to finish reading. I could not put it down once I got into it! Real life is messy and this book is a sweet celebration of embracing that messiness, living life on life's terms and the victories that can be had on the other side. It is Lamb's portrayal of a complex web of relateable characters and how he develops them thru initmate dialogue that makes this story so compelling. The story puts in perspective the spectrum of emotions we all experience and ultimately proves the redemptive value of forgiveness, yet illustrates that it is the freedom to experience the more "ugly" emotions that paves the way for the surrender that can lead to the heart of forgiveness.

I Know This Much Is True. I enjoyed this book tremendously. It is a very heartfelt story about twin boys, so alike yet so different. The story kept me interested from beginning to end!

Amazing. Best book I have ever picked up, I've probably recommended and lent it out 50 times.

Wonderful book!. It took me a while to get into this book. It was one of those I picked up and put down quite a few times in the beginning, but when I finally settled into it, I couldn’t put it down. There’s a lot to be learned from this book, from our history.

I Know This Much Is True. I loved this book even more on my second reading! Wally Lamb is a very talented author!

A good book. I want to start by saying how much I loved "She's Come Undone", the book was moving and emotional, I still miss reading about those characters. However "I Know This Much is True" fell short of moving me as much as the first Wally Lamb book. I Know This Much is True" is a good book, yet much of it seems forced or simply unrelated to the story line. I don't want to spill any spoilers so I will not go into great detail. Only thing I will say is the off track manuscript that takes over the last few portions of the book was a bit daunting to read, I skimmed much of that section. As the book continued the manuscript one of the characters is reading does start to actually pertain to the story line and becomes more readable. Another thing that left me not loving the book so much was how every single loose end was tied io in the end, I think a little more mystery or imagination left for the reader would have been nice. That said who am I to critique someone's hard work? The book was good and I am glad to have read it, I thank the author for sharing his creativity with us readers.

Long and laborious read. The first half of this book felt disorganized and repetitive. It improved during the second half but overall was much too long for the story it told. It’d skip this one, there are better reads worth your time.

I know this much is true. I loved this book! What a great read. The characters were definitely unique and I'm so glad it was recommended to me. Wally Lamb wove the plots together to make a book I will never forget!

One of my Favorites. The only disappointment about this book is reaching the end. This is probably why I have read this book over and over again, along with another one of Lamb's, 'She's Come Undone'. Wally Lamb is one of my most favorite authors- I wish he would come out with a new novel! I have a hard copy of this book, and I had to have it in digital as well.

I LOVED THIS BOOK. It was worth every single page!

Excellent story. I absolutely love this book! I grew up with a mom who was bipolar and a brother who was almost my other half took his life! It just made me think so much of my life! The ending was beautiful! Just like my mom’s life and who knows maybe my brother’s!

Don't stop!. Amazing book. It took me a long time to get into it but the excellent writing and knowing it was my mother's favorite book kept me going back to it. It is an awesome story with complex and interesting characters. Recommend for all.

Best book!. To this day, I Know This Much Is True is the best book I have ever read in my life. I have yet to read a book close to as good as it.

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Read it 3 times. My favourite book. Never wanted it to end. And A bonus book within a book.

Loved it. Wally Lamb is an excellent story teller, what else can I say?

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Fantastic. This is one of the best books ever. Didn't want it to end. Every possible emotion is in this fabulous story. Quirky, strange, enthralling.

Great book. One of the best books I've ever read, I would recommend to anyone I know.

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The I Know This Much Is True book written by Wally Lamb was published on 17 March 2009, Tuesday in the Family Fiction & Literature category. A total of 889 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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