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Love Story

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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.

"Love Story" by Erich Segal, is a romantic and funny, yet tragic story, that over 35 years ago had an entire generation in love, in tears, and spouting "Love means never having to say you're sorry".

It is the story of 2 young college grads, who's love was stronger then any of the tests life threw at them. Oliver Barrett IV, a rich(very rich), big Harvard jock, heir to the Barrett fortune and legacy. Jennifer Cavilleri, daughter of a Cranston, Rhode Island baker, with not much money, but lots of love. Oliver was expected to follow in his father's huge footsteps, Jennifer, a music major was to go on and study in Paris. Both from very different worlds. But when they met, the sparks flew, and we get involved with them as their love grows deep and strong.

Oliver turns his back on his family and fortune to marry Jenny. Jenny gives up her dreams of Paris and being a musician. But to each other, there is nothing as important as the other in their lives. When life throws them a tragic turn, they find solace in each other arms, and the reader can not help but feel their pain and their deep love as well.

It's a moving story, and if you have a hankerin for a real romance, you want to laugh and cry, and have never read this one before, you should go for it. It will definitely leave you sighing. 5 stars the first time around. Having read this for the first time in about 30 years though, I have to say 'sorry', I just didn't love it as much as I did the first time around. After this time, I wished I had just stayed with the memories of how it felt after the first read.

A good read,and a fast one, just doesn't have the same sentimental punch over time. Highly recommended to romantics who have not read it yet. You'll smile, you'll cry. Be sure to have the Kleenex on hand.

paperback:Love Story

Enjoy and Happy New Year to All...
Laurie

Hey, i'm only 12, but i still loved the book. It is soooo worth spending time on reading it, it makes you laugh, it makes you think about things, and it makes you cry :( You can completetly relate to any of characters even if you r only 7 years old. Erich Segal is a genius!!

I've just finished reading love story and really wish I hadn't read so much about it beforehand. All the hype made me believe I was in for something really amazing. When expectation is so high, a book hardly ever lives up to it and I can't help feeling disappointed. Although I think the plot of the book is great, it is just too short to be really good. The characters are really underdeveloped and potentially good scenes are extremely rushed. I also can't shake the feeling that the writer's heart was never really in it - he was just writing to a formula he knew would sell plenty of copies. To be fair, he has done just that and all credit to him. However, I like a book with a bit more depth where you really feel for the characters.

I first read "Love Story" when I was sixteen years old, shortly after it was published. I laughed. I snorted with derision. I wept. Rereading it again, many years and romances later, I am amazed at how well "Love Story" holds up. For a young person, even a cynical one, Segal compresses many Kozmic Trooths about what it means to love someone, and how it feels to reconcile that love with a parent's disapproval. I did not appreciate until years later Oliver's struggle to make something of his life on his own, and found myself more moved than I'd have imagined. In addition, "Love Story" is classic American kitsch, '70s-style. In its timeless camp quality, appealing to readers of all ages and backgrounds, it occupies an honored spot on my shelf of yellowing trash novels, right next to the collected works of Jacqueline Susann. Any of Susann's heroes and heroines would have given anything, anything at all, to love and be loved as purely and sincerely as Oliver and Jennifer loved each other. Buy this book. Corrupt your children. Seduce a friend into reading it. And hey, Amazon.com, how about stocking it in Spanish? I don't know what happened to my copy of "Historia de Amor." Students and native speakers of Spanish would thank you...

"Love Story" by Erich Segal, is a romantic and funny, yet a tragic story, that over 35 years ago had an entire generation in love, in tears, and spouting "Love means never having to say you're sorry".

It is the story of 2 young college grads, who's love was stronger then any of the tests life threw at them. Oliver Barrett IV, a rich(very rich), big Harvard jock, heir to the Barrett fortune and legacy. Jennifer Cavilleri, daughter of a Cranston, Rhode Island baker, with not much money, but lots of love. Oliver was expected to follow in his father's huge footsteps, Jennifer, a music major was to go on and study in Paris. Both from very different worlds. But when they met, the sparks flew, and we get involved with them as their love grows deep and strong.

Oliver turns his back on his family and fortune to marry Jenny. Jenny gives up her dreams of Paris and being a musician. But to each other, there is nothing as important as the other in their lives. When life throws them a tragic turn, they find solace in each other arms, and the reader can not help but feel their pain and their deep love as well.

It's a moving story, and if you have a hankerin' for a real romance, you want to laugh and cry, and have never read this one before, you should go for it. It will definitely leave you sighing. 5 stars the first time around. Having read this for the first time in about 30 years though, I have to say 'sorry', I just didn't love it as much as I did the first time around. After this time, I wished I had just stayed with the memories of how it felt after the first read.

A good read,and a fast one, just doesn't have the same sentimental punch over time. Highly recommended to romantics who have not read it yet. You'll smile, you'll cry. Be sure to have the Kleenex on hand.

Enjoy the read and the New Year...Laurie

This book the Love Story, by Erich Segal shows many aspects of love. The fight of two people who are faced with the life ahead of them and the love for each other. There love is strained in many ways, but they find there way out of that tunnel.

The story of Jenny and Oliver is a realistic story of two young people that come from two separate worlds and are joined together in the most unlikely of ways. Through out the love story different obstacles get put in their way; rich vs. poor, troubled fathers, young aged love. All these circumstances are real and can happen to anyone and you can live with them, but one obstacle might be the end of this odd relationship of the polar lovers. Can there love hold through it or will there love die?

This book held me captive through the two lovers journey. Although they come from totally separate living styles, you can see there love is strong. The thing I like the best about this book is the way Oliver and Jenny show their love to each other. They are like brother and sister; arguing about their constant differences. The family of these two people are important in this story and some times get in the way of there relationship with one another. Through out the book, I was rooting for their love and wished maybe someday this kind of relationship would happen to me. There love is the most exiting, fun, on-going adventure that I have ever read.

I would think this story would be best read by girls who are looking for a good love story that is not impossible. The love is real and the story can be followed. I would not buy the book I feel like it's a one-time read. It's a one read ending, then the excitement is all gone. I enjoyed this book immensely and I'm sure you will too.

If you like this story there is a sequel to this book that continues the love life of the characters.

O.K., this is one of those "60's" things that trancended it's era. (Al Gore aside!) Erich Segal pulled together just about every heart-tugging idiom that exists and placed it in this novel. And it works. BIG TIME!

Take a handsome, wealthy, athletic, brilliant yuppie guy and mix him with an underprivileged, beautiful, artistically creative, brilliant gal and see what happens. And then when all of the human and cultural adversaries have been conquered, drop the ultimate bombshell. If you like having your emotions yanked, read this book. And if you don't, read it to find out what you have been missing.

Oliver and Jenny made me laugh. They made me cry. They made me fall in love. I read this book for the first time when I was 15 and well - a teeny bopper would be taken away by this book and I was. I have read it over and over again and cried like crazy - laughed like a maniac and gone hysterical reading this love tale.

It's not the language of the book - but its simplicity that I believe has earned it so many fans throughout the world. After all love does speak the universal language - of warmth, of caring, of being in the moment in the arms of the beloved till its gone and all remains is memories - moondust...

Its one book I keep close to my bed. Never know when I might need it again!! Great classic!!

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.