- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (July 1 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553275283
- ISBN-13: 978-0553275285
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,866,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Not just a story--Love Story is an experience. The reader who responds to this little book will feel less like a reader than an unwritten Segal character, living it all out from the inside... In this 'love story' you are not just an observer."--Christian Science Monitor.
"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be."--San Francisco Examiner
"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be."--San Francisco Examiner
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This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri--the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love . . . and everything else to share but time. Funny and flip, sad and poignant, Erich Segal's magnificent novel will grab you, hold you, and stay with you forever. You, like more than twenty million others, will fall in love with Love Story.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not based on Al Gore,
This review is from: Love Story (Mass Market Paperback)
nor in fact, on Tommy Lee Jones! although they were in a class together at uni at a time when segal was a professor there. in fact reading meaning into this one is probably asking too much of it. "love means not ever having to say you are sorry". this line made the book and the film famous, but does it really mean anything? not according to the author. this should not detract from the positive qualities in evidence here. short, well structured, extremely well focused and engaging, not to mention fluently written are all accurate descriptions. Unashamedly a tear-jerker would be my only negative comment, but then again i suppose it is what it is..... the film has dated somewhat, but i believe the book remains as fresh and as wonderful as it was when first released...
4.0 out of 5 stars
VERY MOVING,
This review is from: Love Story (Paperback)
I ENJOYED READING THIS A WHILE BACK - I STILL HAVE IT.BUT I HEARD A COMMENT THAT THIS STORY WAS BASED ON OUR FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. IS IT TRUE- PLEASE VERIFY. THANK YOU,
5.0 out of 5 stars
Why Love Story Gets Five Stars,
By MZ (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love Story (Mass Market Paperback)
If I really like a book, I will read it twice. But three times, four, five...just doesn't happen very often. I've read Love Story over and over, and it never loses that impression it made on me during my first reading.You don't have to be as rich or as high-rolling as Oliver Barrett to understand what it means to love Jenny. Everyone has felt -- or has hoped to feel -- the way he does. That Segal was able to compress so much emotion into so few pages is the ultimate feat. And every time I read Love Story, I find myself praying it will have a different ending, no matter what it says in those first few paragraphs. This little book is so powerful. It is a good reminder of why we live and why we love.
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