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Summary: A shocking story!!!
Review: Have you ever experienced love? Has someone ever opposed to you being with the person you love so much? How did you fell about that person? If you haven't, this book, based on the true life of two adventurous youngsters, Oliver Barret IV and Jenny Cavilleri who live in different worlds, will give you an idea of how love can be both, sweet and bitter at the same time. I really got into this book because it is based on a true story, but what happens in the end changed my opinion towards it. It made me think a little more about how people classify themselves in different social classes.
Oliver is a very handsome guy that goes to college. He is from a very well known family that has given him a very complete education. He is starting on his career, so he wants to be a doctor like his father and like his very well known grandfather. On the other hand, Jenny is a very attractive girl, but she doesn't have a lot of money so she studies at a public school near her house. She is going to graduate that year and since she has only her father with her because her mother is dead, she will have to work in order to pay her college.
One day, Oliver goes to Jenny's school library because he is looking for a book that is not available on his university. Oliver is not very well welcomed in it the library because rich boys are not accepted by the people of Jenny's school. Oliver asks Jenny for help, and since she is the only one available in that moment, she has to help him out, even though she does it in an idly way. Later, Oliver asks the girl to go out with him to have coffee together, Jenny accepts so they go out the next day. This marks the beginning of the "Story Love" that Erich Segal wrote about. He did a wonderful job, because what happens during the story is a very common problem with which many people might seem identified.
After they had known each other for a long time, they fall in love. They become a very close couple and Oliver takes the courage to present Jenny to his demanding family. Jenny easily gets Oliver's mother's love but not his father's. Oliver wants to marry her, and his father warns him, that if he does so, he will no longer be his son. Oliver doesn't pay attention to him, so when Jenny turns 18, they get married. Oliver had lost everything his father could give him by then. After a while something will happen to Jenny that will change everyone's way of thinking including Oliver's father, because is something that no one would expect to happen.
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Summary: The meaning of love
Review: Love story is one of the most simple and interesting books that I have never read. Since the beginning , I went inside the history, I feel what Oliver Barret feels about his dad, what jenny thoughts about Oliver and so many other things. This short book makes you feel a true history, like many in this world, but also makes you think about love, about the person you like or the person that you want to like. Love story began in a very soft way, to young boys that feel in love, and then they start to have problems like a normal couple, but the difference was that the problems were with theirs parents, cause they didn't want them to get married. Then the live starts to change for this couple and Oliver starts to have money and at this part of the book you can imagine that everything would be ok for them but, after this came the best part of the book, the part that you don't imagine, but makes you feel everything that they are feeling at that moment. That's all I can say , so read it and enjoy it like I did.
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Summary: To have found Jenny...
Review: ...is perhaps the most wonderful gift one can get, and to lose her is an experience one would rather not have. This is perhaps, no, not perhaps, but certainly, the most wonderful 'book' I have ever read, I just wish that all those who haven't been exposed to this story find it sooner, if not later in their lives. They dont know what they are missing. Here's what the copy I have says"What can you say about a twenty-five year girl who died? That she was beautiful. And Brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me. Oliver Barret IV went to Harvard and Jenny Cavilleri to Radcliffe. He was rich, she was poor. He was sporty, she played music. But they fell in love. This is their story" @mi
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Summary: Wow.
Review: This was a wonderfully written book. I am currently on an "Erich Segal" material hunt. "Love Story" is beautiful and so sad. I read it during my lunch break at work and my boss caught me crying at my desk. I only wish to find a love like Oliver and Jenny's. The book was short and sweet but I found myself wanting it to go on and on. Oh, well. Buy this book, kay?
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Summary: the first English book of me
Review: I bought "love story"after I see the film.I see the film by TV in a cloudy dusk.I am upsad that day,and this film make me cry.Than I go to a bookshop to buy this book.It's full red cover and pure English.At that time,I am only a little girl in the grade one of middle school.But I read this book very eazy.Because I know what happen in this story.I still remember a sentance of "love story":love means you will never have to say sorry.¡ª¡ª°®ÊÇÓÀ²»ÑԻڵġ£ I don't think this book make any achievement in literature,but the story tell us some true thing about love.And the movie seems better than the book.
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Summary: Find the importance of Love and Time
Review: This book teaches manay things. Not only about love but also about death and time, and that every meeting had parting. Being afraid of parting, I was afraid to love someone as once I could but this book changed me. I decided to live with this book - because I did not want to 'say sorry'. However as I had mentioned, I had to experience 'parting' also. It was not the death - but it was inevitable. Someone I loved had to go back to his country. Having read this book before, I could tell that we should cherish each moment we have. It is not only between us. I think I can say this in terms of any relationship. We have no idea when one of us will die. No one can predict it - so we have got to cherish and live our time. It allows you not to 'say sorry' even if that relationship would break up. You can keep it as a part of good memory. This book is a good text book for life forever.
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Summary: You cannot read this without tears
Review: You never can read this novel without crying. Despite it was fifth time for me to read this, I could not help doing so. Read it by yourself, with your boy/girl friend... In any case, this would move your heart I swear.
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Summary: Touches not just the heart, but the soul...
Review: I'd been given this book by the most beloved person in my life and well, it took me over a couple of hours to read... but will take me more than a lifetime to forget. It was so awesome. In those few hours, I was snickering with laughter and weeping with bitter regret. Sometimes emotions overcome my senses when I read and I cry... This was the only book where I wept even after closing it. I read it for happiness, inspiration and love. "True love never has a happy ending, that is because true love never has an ending." Thanx for such a precious gift Babloo. It's the best gift ever.
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Summary: A heart warmer
Review: A great first time effort! I couldn't imagine such lucidity flowing out in the first ever novel by Erich Segal. Touching and a heart warmer in all ways. We pass our daily lives seldom acknowledging the love we have around us. This book makes me think of all blessings and love I have from my dear ones and especially my loving husband. If you love whole heartedly, there's no better happiness elsewhere. Not only in receiving from your beloved but sometimes more in giving. A must read for anybody and everybody in search of love.
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Summary: Simple and beautiful
Review: I am 13, and I picked this book up at my school library, having heard of it but having no idea of the plot. I read it in two days, and that's only because school (what a pesky little bugger) got in the way. Love Story is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. It doesn't have a lot of elaborate details; however, that doesn't diminish its charm. It is cuttingly funny, and completely absorbing. I read it on the lunch line, during lunch, during math, during science...you get the picture. The ending almost made me cry. This book is a work of art.
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