The History of Love

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Customer reviews

review by: peckhampoet date: 2008-11-10 rating:
History of love
This is a special novel and deserves close reading. It is a complex structure and I would definitely like to hear the audio version some time to help make sense of following the narrative strands. I really identified with the characters and was moved by this story. The Jewish American culture detail is very well done and I love Alma's detective hunt around the city. Original and life affirming.

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review by: date: 2008-08-20 rating:
Loved it!
This book was intense that I had to read it a few times. Superbly written makes the characters come alive. You really do feel the pain of love and at times I felt like jumping into the novel!

This book has said to have taken the world by storm and it is not difficult to see why. Enjoyed it thoroughly but had to read a few times not for more enjoyment but because I am sure that there were times that I was lost by the power of it that I feared I may have missed something important in the plot.

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review by: patrick612 date: 2008-07-10 rating:
Very pleasant read
This novel hss its faults. The two principal narrators are good company and pleasingly distinctive. However, the perhaps overcomplicated plot requires passages narrated by neither character (only by an anonymous authorial voice) and this interrupts the flow of the book and spoils its symmetry. In its disregard for such forms it is self-consciously post-modern, no doubt so that the author can avoid looking old-fashioned - because, at heart, this is a very sentimental tale.
All that said, the story is witty and highly amusing, which is no mean feat. Recommended.

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review by: lilja4ever date: 2008-06-30 rating:
Don't read it - listen to it!
I "heard" this book last year, and I must say I hadn't been so enthralled by a piece of fiction for years.
I bought the book several months later to give it to a friend for his birthday, but then realised how complicated the plot, and especially the constant change of narrator, was.
I don't think I would have enjoyed "the History of Love" so much had I read it and not "heard" it. The voices of the different actors make the "who's speaking" very clear and really add a dimension to the characters. The actor who read Leo's part especially, is amazing.
I cannot recommend buying the Audio Book highly enough.


review by: date: 2008-01-21 rating:
Not bad - but not brilliant either
I liked - the fact that it was different, well written and that it conveyed the idea of love lasting a lifetime.

I didn't like - that fact that at times the characters were confusing, that not much actually happened.

I certainly wasn't an unputdownable page turner, but none the less it is worth a read.

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