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What Love Is - A Fable for Our Times

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I am saddened by the many harsh words written about this book. It seems people have forgotten the exhilaration and surprise that comes with each new event, or the romance and dreams that makes a relationship last.

I recalled a song I once heard. The song followed the relationship of two people from 'first touch' until death. Each step along the way brought a new realization of what love was. It was only at death that the true realization of love was fully felt.

When I saw and read the first few pages of "What Love Is: A Fable for Our Times by Carol Lynn Pearson, Kathleen B. Peterson (Illustrator)" I felt the same way that song had made me feel. And I wanted to share it with my wife. So I did. We have both enjoyed it.

WHAT LOVE IS is an original story and was not copied from another work. The poem referred to by the previous respondent is also called "What Love Is," and was written by Rae Ann Reichert. However, Rae Ann's poem deals with the loss of a child, while the book WHAT LOVE IS chronicles the life of a couple through good times and bad. It is a moving story certain to bring you to tears! I highly recommend it!

I, too, am saddened by the harsh reviews this lovely work has received. My father gave me this book after my mother passed away and it moved me to tears, primarily because it described so perfectly, in such beautiful, simple terms, their 47-year marriage. Perhaps only those who have shared, and then lost, a great love, along with those who knew them, can be touched by it. Far from being a jumble of ideas, the author captures a lifetime of love in only a few pages. The simple illustrations perfectly complement the prose.

If you like sentimental, tearjerker stories this is the book for you. This book touches your heart in it's tale of a life journey. Although it may be somewhat cliche, it is still excellent! It is worth the money.

This book moved me to tears. Even in it's simplicity it says so much about what love is or what love should be.

A very banal and juvenile work that reminds me of a daily soap opera drama. No substance, depth or even a hint of originality in this considering that this "fable" does appear to have it's idea taken from the 1995 poem of the same name (different subject). Can I get a refund?

As a great-grandmother and widow, I bought this book with great anticipation. It fell far below my expectations and I thought the writing as a jumble of thoughts and memories that were too far fetched to be real. People who don't experience things should NOT write about them or review them. But I guess "fable" is in the title and does mean that this is a fantasy, a myth of what a real long term relationship is about. I also found your Editorial Review very biased, but then again, it was written to sell books and make profit. I will definitely keep THAT in mind when buying other books.

Very poorly written piece that relies on too many jumbled ideas and emotion to make a profit. I did find one use for it. I had my class evaluate it for what not to do. A student's comment summed it up, "Just because an author can make money off it, doesn't mean it's any good." How true! I did compare this book with the 1995 poem "What Love Is" as one reviewer suggested - enough similarities contained in this book to make it questionable in my opinion. One big difference - the poem was good - the book wasn't.

This is coincidentally too similiar to a poem I saw on the Internet at Tom Golden's grief site. That poem was written in 1995 by a bereaved mother whose daughter was an organ donor. Go read it for yourself and decide -

Got this book for Valentine's Day and didn't think much of it. I've been married 47 years and if this is what my life was about, then I want to start over. I had better stories written by my students when I was a teacher and they didn't get published. Save your money and "get a life"!