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The Hour I First Believed LP: A Novel | 
| Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: HarperLuxe
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Pages: 1136
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 2.1
ISBN: 0061711799
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Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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Amazing book! December 29, 2008
You know the kind of book where you crawl into another world and become a totally different human being? That's this book. It takes you completely away from your life and home and you become someone else. It is thought-provoking, fascinating, interesting, enlightening, empathetic, humanizing. It is quite simply an amazing book. I loved it.
 The Hour I First Believed December 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wally Lamb is one of my favorite authors of all time but this book just rambled from one thing to another. The characters were impossible to care for. The story was set together in pieces that did not even begin to flow. I stuck it out for most of the book, waiting for it to get better, but had to finish by thumbing through the rest of the pages. Extremely disappointing, especially after thoroughly enjoying I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE also by Lamb which was an exceptional story from beginning to end.
Truly moving December 23, 2008
All I wanted was a small paperback to bring on vacation with me, but when I walked into the book store and saw Wally Lamb's new novel sitting there I had to have it. Worth every bit of carring this 700+ page book on the plane and to the beach! This novel is truly moving. It touched on so many topics and intertwined the past and present in a unique manner. It is fast paced and written with such expression and insight that at times I would literally gasp out loud while reading. I could not put this book down, and yes - I did cry when it was over.
Dark Book November 18, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you allow it, this book will effect your mood. The story ties in actual events that took place at Columbine High with the actual people, places and evidence tied into a fictional account of the narrator/author's account of things happining in his life before,during and the most compelling, dark period, after the columbine murders and it's affect it takes on himself and his wife and the world around him. This is truly dark stuff, because you KNOW that someone, somewhere is experiencing exactly what your reading in this book.
If the general story doesn't sound interesting enough for a 750+ page hardcover book, don't worry, the story will not allow you to put the book down as the pages fly by. I have had the book for 3 days and have finished it and didn't once feel like I was reading a (big) book.
Great book, but beware. The author touches on alot of personal subjects that cover depression, anxiety, sexual abuse, murder, adultery, and a host of others that can and will carry with you after you put the book down.
Gritty, confident, witty, and direct November 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The story begins with the Columbine School Massacre, having followed the seemingly innocent culprits before the event. It then goes into fiction centred on the two main characters, husband and wife, and how they are affected, along with glimpses into their family's past. It all makes for an epic journey.
I must admit had difficulty finishing this book, the reason? Quite simply I did not like the character who was the narrator. The narrator, Caelum Quirk, is an educated man, a teacher, but he has among other failings anger management problems, a wife who was once unfaithful, and they both are prone to using unsavoury language. To follow them through their traumatic experiences was at time almost a burden. For me it is important to feel something for the main characters in a story, to care about them, but here I was unable to connect.
Maybe the fault is mine. The book is extremely well written and reads with great ease. It is gritty, confident, witty, and direct; putting aside my reservations it would make very involving and rewarding reading. But if I am going to become involved in a story it is essential that I am able to feel something of the main characters; I do not expect them to be perfect, but I need to be able warm to them, and here I could not.
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