Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems [Paperback]

Ara John Movsesian (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 1993

"Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems" is a practical guidebook that many consider to be the modern-day equivalent of Cyrano de Bergerac. Throughout the years, it has helped thousands of people all over the world express their deepest feelings. Now you, too, can use this timeless and practical information to make a lasting impression on someone special in your life. Filled with examples of love letters from the past, ideas, explanations, tips, techniques and pre-written, ready-to-use romantic material, Pearls of Love is there to help you express your love and affection in a special and unforgettable way. It can help you begin a relationship and mend a broken friendship. It can help you keep the fires of passion burning bright should you and your love be separated by distance and circumstance. It can even help you express your love towards family and friends. "Pearls of Love" is easy to understand, easy to use and very powerful. It will serve you well.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Electric Pr (September 30, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916919005
• ISBN-13: 978-0916919009
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems, February 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems (Paperback)

This is a great book for those of us not used to expressing our feelings. "Love Letters for Dummies" would be another appropriate title. It gives you formats to use, and ideas to fill those formats with. A lot of good examples which are easily modified to fit your specific circumstances are also available. With it, I was able to keep a trans-Pacific long distance relationship going for about 6 months, averaging three letters a month. Fortunately (I can say that now) that romance died out, but the information I retained helped me out in my current relationship which involves being away from my lover for weeks at a time (I'm a sailor). By the way, through peculiar circumstances I once visited the room of the "trans-Pacific" girl after she had already dumped me. I noticed she still kept all my letters, so they must have been good!

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No, this is not the way to do it, May 3, 2000

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David J. Loftus (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems (Paperback)

...I'm sure Mr. Movsesian is a sincere, lovely human being, butI agree with the previous reviewer that this book could serve as"Love Letters for Dummies" ... only I don't consider that acompliment.

The author provides sample love letters and lots of pretty quotes by famous personalities through history, and then gets down to the nitty gritty in detailed outline form, moving from "Use words which are familiar to you" and "Use alternate words to create variety" (all of which requires detailed explanations, apparently) to that all-important reminder: "Determine the subject matter." There are sections devoted to defining the parts of speech, lists of effective words, and dozens of entire "Love Paragraphs," "Love Sentences," and "Love Poems" and poem fragments you can paste right into your declarations from the heart.

If all of this sounds a little, well, schematic and calculated, I'm afraid that's how it looks to me. From my perspective, having written and received some dynamite love letters over the years without ever turning to reference works or instruction, this book would only be of use to a person who was either too young really to be in love (say, a 12-year-old), or too illiterate to express something honest, true, and vulnerable that is direct from the heart...

I suspect I won't be buying a copy of Mr. Movsesian's poems, thank you very much. END

5.0 out of 5 stars It saved my relationship..., January 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Pearls of Love: How to Write Love Letters and Love Poems (Paperback)

and probably my life. No need for romantic elitism here, some of us are socially inept enough to actually need "love letters for dummies". Maybe most of us.