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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-19 10:35:05.
(Language: English)
 
It is a vividly written story about love. My first feeling, after I finished reading, was: I want to read it again - the same story or something similar. I really missed it, like somebody who I loved. The book is really impressive.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-25 06:25:26.
(Language: English)
Hits the nail on the head
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-22 09:02:50.
(Language: English)
Changed my life!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-01 06:31:42.
(Language: English)
nice. and smart.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-10 06:54:41.
(Language: English)
Really good honest, philosophical and lyrical observations and opinions on love in a relationship. Clear observations on things every person feels on love and emotions so that we can get a grasp on why we feel the way we do so we can manage our emotions. Although the author basically concludes that although we may be aware of these things, managing what our mind knows with what we feel is nearly impossible.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-17 11:07:56.
(Language: English)
This novel describes changes in sentiments from the beginning to the end of love. The author is a genius to be able to elaborate feelings that one may feel while in love. The very lesson you may learn in this book is that no matter how hearbroken you were after breakup, there's another love awaiting.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-23 02:47:28.
(Language: English)
It was easy to read, but very intelligent.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-01 11:08:34.
(Language: English)
It's like talking to my "soul-mate". Read it when you want to be heard and understood
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-08 05:05:03.
(Language: English)
for anyone that's been in a relationship that's ended...
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-12 05:01:35.
(Language: German)
wunderschön geschrieben in bottons ganz eigenem stil (mit skizzen und sozio-emotionalen analysen)
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Darko posted a review at 2009-05-01 05:17:32.
(Language: English)
Was not impressed much at start, half way through i was loving it. Not his best piece, but still quite good. For anyone who has truly loved and for all hartbroken.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-19 01:28:37.
(Language: English)
A truly great book, de Botton's insight to relationships is amazing. Please do not read of you have just broken up with someone though, it can be a bit tough!
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-01-07 03:35:24.
(Language: English)
Fascinating dissection of the minutiae of a relationship. Particularly loved the description of anhedonia, the fear of happiness, which apparently is akin to mountain sickness.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-08-26 03:10:54.
(Language: English)
Brilliant. A new favorite author. <3<3<3
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-13 07:31:51.
(Language: English)
This has to be one of the most beautiful books I've read. Although I read it a couple of years ago perhaps, and my taste in books has changed significantly since, it left a lasting impression strong enough for me to write about (and praise it) now. The book tells of a love affair between the main character and 'Chloe'. Amazingly, I really felt like I experienced the romance in this book first hand- perhaps due in part to it being written in the first person but also because of the author's undeniable skill in describing and conjuring up emotion. When the love affair ended I remember feeling rather heart-broken myself and really experiencing the raw feelings of the protagonist by proxy. I suppose De Botton has an unusual writing style. Something that reminds me in part of another philosophical writer- Kundera. Some beautiful crisp observations on love, as far as I remember. A lovely starting point for those who wish to think about Love and would like food for thought.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-24 01:52:53.
(Language: English)
Amazing insights on what people call love.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-02-09 03:03:43.
(Language: English)
Puts into words the emotions we all feel/ go through at every stage of a relationship.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-11-18 04:04:24.
(Language: English)
Through the ups and downs of a relationship, de Botton takes us through a philosophical journey of love or really, a relationship; from the free-falling highs of the beginning to the suicidal lows at the end. Many of the aspects of growing a relationship, from building intimacy through mutual experiences and answering the question "what do I see in him/her?" are things that many of us have done but never stopped to answer. De Botton seeks to answers them with gentleness and references to past philosophers, poets and bad love song lyrics.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-19 08:47:12.
(Language: English)
amazing book, finished it in 2 weeks. makes you to see the love through a different window
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-28 10:04:52.
(Language: English)
Woven through the narrative of a love story between a man and a woman, De Botton reveals 'a meaning of love' that is Emotionally engaging....psychologically insightful.... intellectually stimulating....and spiritually comforting. A must read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-08-18 01:39:41.
(Language: English)
made me laugh and cry
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-15 09:56:04.
(Language: Portuguese)
Uma curiosa análise de Alain de Botton sobre o quanto de uma relação pode ser considerado nosso, e o quanto se insere na sociedade que nos rodeia. Um livro essencial para encontrar, de forma simples, formas de analisar as coisas simples de uma relação
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-11-16 02:06:33.
(Language: English)
i believe everyone - absolutely everyone - should read this book. if you have ever been in love, if you’re in love now, if you dream of being in love at some point in your life - you need to read this. de Botton’s measured, calm, reassuring and absolutely entertaining perspectives on this most human of emotions will feel like a buoyancy aid in the rough seas of your emotional life. jumping from psychoanalysis to existential philosophy to politics and terrorism in his exploration of what makes us love, de Botton is utterly talented - i have never read anyone who has made philosophy and introspectionism as relevant, entertaining, and easy to read as de Botton, and i doubt anyone else could. please read this book - feel happier about yourself, feel more confident about your emotions, feel less fear in love, and above all, tell me what you thought yourself!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-05-04 12:44:03.
(Language: English)
An easy to read perceptive analysis of the experience of love and the dangers of over obsessing about someone, plus it is really funny!
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-06 04:32:30.
(Language: English)
I love de Botton's writing. Very difficult to describe how precisely he pinpoints the feelings and then puts them into words. He is so easy to read, yet never trite, and always manages to show how erudite and educated he is without rubbing anyone's nose in it - it always works with the story. And finally, that a man could ever write in a way that seems as if he was living in a woman's brain...a miracle. Fun to read, yet always an intelligent read. I highly recommend it (as I do his other books).
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