- Paperback: 358 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books; Vintage Books ed edition (1 Mar 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679761837
- ISBN-13: 978-0679761839
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 2 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 740,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this "audaciously brilliant romp through the world of romantic love" (Washington Post Book World) is the next best thing to love itself.
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This book is a sweet, delicate, scatterbrained inward exploration of everything the author can summon emerging from her personal history in response to love. It is more poetry than science; more a private sketchbook than an authoratitive treatise. It sometimes frustrates in its vagueness and incompleteness, but it also inspires and moves. I often stopped reading in tears of recognition. By the time I reached the last page the loose ends were probably enough to send me reading another hundred books, and also perhaps to write my own.
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Diane Ackerman, with her characteristic aplomb and eloquence, provides a captivating overview of how human society has viewed love through the course of history. This book is particularly well-written, and the topic it addresses is likely of interest to virtually anyone. At Amazon.com prices, and for those who love to read, this book is a must.
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Just started Diane Ackerman's, _Natural History of Love_. I find it practically insufferable, but will give it a little more time, or will skip around some. The writing itself has nothing to commend it and the Western, late twentieth century, cultural/psycho-theraputic-ethno-centricity is uninteresting to the extreme.
I've recently finished Alain de Botton's _On Love_, am reading Plato's _Phaedrus_, and thought this might be, uh, right up my alley.
Negatory.
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Immature analysis and unresearched conclusions
Ms Diane Ackerman is not ready yet to write on love and call it a natural history of love.She has put together what people say at cocktail parties and then gives it an aura with a... Read more
Published on 2 April 1999
Excellent, intelligent leisure reading
Ackerman's history of love in society was fascinating. I especially enjoyed her attention to the changing roles of women and men in various cultures in our history. Read more
Published on 17 July 1998
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