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"Imagine, of all impossible things, a young British Woody Allen with the benefit of a classical education and you have the nameless and exquisitely erudite narrator of Essays in Love."
-- "Boston Sunday Globe"
"The book's success has much to do with its beautifully modeled sentences, its wry humor, its unwavering deadpan respect for its reader's intelligence." -- Francine Prose in "The New Republic"
-- "Boston Sunday Globe"
"The book's success has much to do with its beautifully modeled sentences, its wry humor, its unwavering deadpan respect for its reader's intelligence." -- Francine Prose in "The New Republic"
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A revised edition of a classic book on love by the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy
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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A read that strikes a chord.,
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This review is from: Essays In Love (Paperback)
This is a wonderful book. It charts the development of a relationship between the speaker and a woman he meets on a flight. Everyone will undoubtedly relate to the different stages of the relationship, from initial uncomfortable exchanges, charged with expectation, to the concern that you are more involved than your object of desire. It's a book that contains moments of high humour and accurately depicts the frustrations, confusions, joy and desolate despair that only romantic entanglement can bring. Neatly suffused with readable and thought provoking asides, this is a fantastic book - read it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Engaging philosophy on love,
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This was my second experience of reading Alain de Botton's work (I recently read A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, highly recommended) and for me it was another very enjoyable book. I've not, so far, been much of a philosophical reader and there is much philosophy is this book. I admit that I had to check the meaning of some of the philosophical words that he uses but in the main his writing is accessible and easy to follow. Where I did have to check meaning, I feel that I have learnt more about philosophy. So, not only was the book enjoyable (I'm sure that we will all identify with at least some elements of his descriptions of the journey of a relationship) but it was also a philosophical learning experience for me too.
It feels like a young person's relationship and de Botton did write the book in his 20s. The book is categorised as fiction and even has an alternative title for the US market of "On Love: A Novel" but it is not a novel in the conventional sense. There is an overall story as de Botton charts his relationship with Chloe but at each stage of the relationship he examines the philosophy and inner workings of a relationship. It feels like non-fiction and I wonder how much of the relationship is fictional and how much is based on one or more relationships that de Botton has had in the past. The numbering of paragraphs seemed odd but it's certainly an engaging read and I would recommend it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Average at best,
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This book came highly recommended to me so perhaps I expected too much but it has been a bit of a dissapointment. The narrative is far from compeling and at times boreders on whinging. Instead of empathising with the writer's exploration of his relationship I found the woman he loved intensely annoying and the main character a fairly pathetic individual. I suppose this book might suit those of a highly analyticial disposition but for me it was hard going and removed any sense of romance from the book or the relationships discussed within it. Despite the occasional shrewd and insightful observation into human nature it wasnt truly eye opening or entertaining and so i probably wouldnt recommed it.
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