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Summary: #1 ROMANCE NOVEL !
Review: I just finished reading "Endless Love" today, and I was enthralled throughout the book's entirety! It was sad, but realistic in the sense that love sometimes doesn't conquer all. I was upset of the fact that the main character gradually goes insane and gives up on life. He had an obsession that no words could describe. The movie was completely different, because it came across as a sappy teenage love story. (Don't get me wrong, I still loved the movie, but the book was better.) The book was much darker and more realistic than the movie with Brooke Shields. Regardless, I love the "Endless Love" song, and the movie, but the book takes the cake.
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Summary: Endless longing
Review: I read "Endless Love" shortly before that horrible movie came out. Like so many others, I loved the book and hated the movie. I've read it many times, and can recall long passages, actually hear Spencer's words in my memory's ear. It is one of my most fervent wishes that this wonderful book be made into a movie that's worthy of it. I'm sure it can be done.
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Summary: haunting story of love gone wrong
Review: I read a lot of books.I love to read, and my selections cover a wide spectrum - everything from Shakespeare to the much maligned Harlequin romances. But never, ever have I read anything that can compare with "Endless Love". The gorgeous prose hooks you in from the first sentence and doesn't let up until the last line, when you're holding the book with shaking hands, wondering how to let it go. Because this is one of those rare stories that *won't* let you go. The characters - David, Jade, and Ann in particular - take root and germinate inside you, never to leave again. David's description of falling in love and losing that love are part of the universal human experience. David merely got caught doing what a lot of us have done. Unable to let go of what others dismissed as a teenage romance, he clings to his memories of Jade and her family until the world views him as unhealthy. And maybe he is. But the reader is so convinced of the depths of his love for Jade, that being with her is the only way David will ever be happy, that we side with him, becoming his partner in crime. The 30+ page love scene some 200 or more pages into the book is a masterpiece. I've read countless sex scenes and *none* compare to this one. It borders on becoming an out of body experience. One feeling I was left with was that perception is everything in this story. David believed his relationship with Jade to be worth everything. Jade loved David, but essentially could live without him. They viewed their bond in very different ways. Take a chance on this modern classic. If you've ever been so much in love that rules no longer applied, you'll walk away from this book forever changed.
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Summary: Review of Endless Love by Scott Spencer
Review: I read this when I was trying to get over an obsessive love myself, and it affected me very profoundly. The author deals with very profound, deep, passionate feelings of obsessive love, of loss, of obsession following loss in a way that seems totally authentic and with which I could completely identify. There was not one extraneous word in this book, not one word that was not essential to the gripping plot. It was like living with someone through his experience; it was one of the most alive books I have ever read. I don't know how someone who has never been through painful obsessive love and loss would react to ENDLESS LOVE. I drowned in this book--I needed to. I have read Scott Spencer's other novels--he is a great American writer--one of the greatest!
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Summary: Very Well Written
Review: I really enjoyed Scott Spencer's Endless Love, it is exceptionally well written. It's almost impossiable to read an not get involved with the main character and really feel his pain. Althought I enjoyed this book I liked Spencers 'Men in Black' much better and probably would have liked this more had I not just been blown away by 'Men in Black'. A good book if you've ever had it really bad for someone.
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Summary: outstanding, breathtaking, truly unique experience....
Review: I too thought this book was "my little secret!" How wonderful to hear from others who feel the same way. One of the few books that have truly broken my heart - I felt changed after I read it. My ideas on love, obsession, living, family, and madness - all were altered by Scott Spencers' suberb, unduplicable writing stye. The intensity of his emotional and physical descriptions, coming from the viewpoint of David, leave you breathless and yearing for more. A masterpiece novel - one of my all time favorites, 15 years after first reading it!!
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Summary: outstanding, breathtaking, truly unique experience....
Review: I too thought this book was "my little secret!" How wonderful to hear from others who feel the same way. One of the few books that have truly broken my heart - I felt changed after I read it. My ideas on love, obsession, living, family, and madness - all were altered by Scott Spencers' suberb, unduplicable writing stye. The intensity of his emotional and physical descriptions, coming from the viewpoint of David, leave you breathless and yearing for more. A masterpiece novel - one of my all time favorites, 15 years after first reading it!!
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Summary: Special!
Review: I'm one of the three or four people on Earth who loved the movie. I confess to always being a big fan of Brooke Shields. She is just a year older than I, and even back in the very early 80's, I wanted to be like her. I'm proud to say that even 25+ years later, she's still an example I'd be happy to try to emulate. Anyway, I always loved the movie, and only recently bought and read the book. It is a wonderful book. Anyone who has been in love - THIS KIND of love - will understand exactly how David feels and his inmpulsiveness when it comes to wanting Jade to be with him at any cost. If you liked the movie, read the book. Even if you didn't like the movie, but you enjoy a good, honest, well-written NON-sappy book about a young couple in love, read the book. You won't regret it.
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Summary: Special!
Review: I'm one of the three or four people on Earth who loved the movie. I confess to always being a big fan of Brooke Shields. She is just a year older than I, and even back in the very early 80's, I wanted to be like her. I'm proud to say that even 25+ years later, she's still an example I'd be happy to try to emulate. Anyway, I always loved the movie, and only recently bought and read the book. It is a wonderful book. Anyone who has been in love - THIS KIND of love - will understand exactly how David feels and his inmpulsiveness when it comes to wanting Jade to be with him at any cost. If you liked the movie, read the book. Even if you didn't like the movie, but you enjoy a good, honest, well-written NON-sappy book about a young couple in love, read the book. You won't regret it.
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Summary: A beautiful and heartbreaking book
Review: I'm so glad to see that there are others who agree with my opinion of this book. I first read it when I was a teenager and couldn't put it down. I cried at the end (and I don't even cry at movies) and it really made a profound impact on my life. I recommend it to everyone I know and after they get past the "wasn't that a terrible movie with Brooke Shields?" everyone loves the book. I remember an interview with Scott Spencer in the New York Times Magazine years ago where he said that when he originally wrote the book, he made the reunion sex scene with Jade (which now runs about 30 pages) about 3 pages long, and his wife thought that it should be longer. After not speaking to his wife for a few days, he decided she was right...and the result is a masterpiece. Keep spreading the good word!
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