Last night, when I picked up Erich Segal's Love Story from my bag-of-books, the memory of having turned the same pages five years ago flashed before me. It was quite an experience those days while reading this book. On the whole, I think I read this book more than five times: twice, fully from first page to last, and the rest was read like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
A simple story of a simpler girl and a rich guy, dwelling into their flirting, romance, love, the girl's terminal illness and the melodrama that lingers from there. The best part of any death story is the liveliness of the characters in it. Jennifer Cavelleri's quick-witted character haunted me, though not like a ghost, whenever I needed an imaginary girl-friend to make me laugh.
I was so very crazy about the book that I yearned to read more from Erich Segal and ended up buying his 'Oliver's Story' (sequel to Love Story) and 'Only Love'. And I stopped buying more. Years later, though I have read 'Doctors', Love Story remains as Erich Segal's masterpiece; and there can only be one masterpiece.
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Advice - Stop reading the plain romantic novels .... unless u r planning to make movie for chicks
ReplyDeleteyou look to me like you will move reading to Daniel Steel next ....
:) :) I love plain romantic novels.... they make me feel good, that I am one among those silly characters :) :)
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