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by Alain de Botton (Author) "What happened to them? ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 231 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; Reissue edition (25 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802134092
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802134097
  • Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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"A tour de force pleasure...Intellectually stimulating and emotionally touching."


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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant but also published by Picador as 'Essays n Love'., 3 Jan 2001
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This book is published under different names by different publishers ('Essays in Love' by Picador and 'On Love' by Grove Press) and I fell foul of this by buying through Amazon (and therefore unable to physically see they were identical). Apart from this, I thoroughly recommend Alain de Botton. It's not for those who prefer not to think though, it is thought provoking and makes you work hard. Nevertheless it also can make you smile at the truisims within the pages. Well worth a read but not for the lazy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensationally incisive and thoroughly entertaining., 25 Aug 1998
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De Botton's first book manages simultaneously to be important and entertaining. Through the first-person narrative, de Botton succinctly and insightfully dissects the nature of a romantic relationship. Sophisticated enough in its pontifications not to be trite, On Love is also spiced with enough humor that it does not plunge into a tired and dry treatise on love. In drawing from classical thinkers as well as providing diagrams for the reader, de Botton manages both further to illustrate the points he is making and to satirize the soberness of the sources and mechanisms that he uses to advance and refine his narrator's observations. This book can be a comfort that we are not alone in the psychoses that love breeds. At the same time, the book can help us raise our awareness as to the sources of these psychoses. Equally rewarding to plow through in three hours at the beach or to carefully dissect with a hi-liter over a course of months.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best contemporary books written "on love"., 17 Mar 1998
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de Botton's 1993 novel, On Love, is at once engrossing, thought-provoking and ultimately fulfilling. He skillfully blends an appropriate mixture of humor and sentiment into a story that could easily have become maudlin and trite. The questions that he ponders and the insights that he ascertains regarding this ever-elusive subject are extraordinary -- perhaps almost too real at times. Interestingly, a large part of the novel is written in the first-person narrative, with only a few pages devoted to actual dialogue among the players. Still, de Botton keeps his readers intimately involved with the story, while at the same time gracefully teaching many basic concepts of social philosophy. Perhaps the only criticism might lie in the excerpt and brief description on the book's back, which hardly does the story justice. A marvelously written tale which concludes as beautifully as it began, this book is most recommended if not for its refreshing and original take "on love", but for its attempt (a successful one, in this reader's opinion) to grasp this metaphorical goal that all of us hope one day to attain.
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