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Title: The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time
ISBN: 0517223333
Author:
David Lowenherz
Publicate Date: 2005-01-04
Publish: 2005-01-04
List Price: $8.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Nice, but not great
Some of the letters are interesting, but mostly not that romantic. Definitely not the greatest letters ever, and some are not even letters at all. The formatting made it a little difficult to read. Overall it was okay, but not quite what I was hoping for based on the title.
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2: George Bush does NOT belong in a book of love letters!
This WOULD have been a 5-star book, but I'm sorry, the man who is the front man for the people that have been ruining our country is NOT someone's name I want to THINK about much less read in a book about LOVE.
For the VERY politically tolerant, you may like this book, but I do NOT recommend it for those who really feel a personal upset about Presidents Bush Sr. and/or Bush Jr. Ruins it, ruins it, ruins it, ruins it! Maybe 50 years from now I can stomach to read a love letter written by him -- NOT NOW...!
NOT to give as a gift to anyone who loves our country and has an inkling that the Bushes had a hand in destroying it.
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3: A beautiful book of love
If you saw sex in the city movie you will love this book as it is filled with love poems like Carrie was reading.
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4: What's going on with the price?
Apologies up front. I've not yet read this book but my wife wants to have it very much. I gave the book 5 stars to avoid unfairly down-rating the work; (I assume it will be exactly what I expect it to be). I nearly shelled out the $50 (or higher) that this site is asking for this book. Barnes and Noble online is selling this for $8.99. I love Amazon and use it all the time but this price differential really ticks me off. How's this possible?
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5: A few very good letters
The hype offends. Why the 'fifty greatest love letters' of all time? Why not 'fifty great love - letters?' That too would be misleading as there are not fifty great letters here. In fact there may not even be ten. What there is is very small excerpts of a number of good love- letters, including those from some of the great love- letter writers of all- time. The tremendous letter of Elizabeth Browning to her brother George telling the story of Browning's love for her, and how it wholly changed her life is to my mind the supreme letter of the collection, and one of the greatest love - letters of all time. I am not a great fan of Simone de Beauvoir especially since learning of the true character of her relationship with Sartre but her love- letter to Nelson Algren really hits hard. Her expression of a total love, a love in happiness and pain is powerful and winning.
On the other hand Kafka one of the world's greatest letter- writers is not so well represented by the selection given here. The editor claims Hemingway's letters to Mary Welch are among the greatest love - letters ever written. The selection he gives here does not prove this.
Nonetheless there is a great deal to enjoy here. The introductions and capsule biographies before each letter often take up more space than the excerpts themselves, but they are quite interesting .
All in all as with most 'anthologies' of this kind there is valuable writing to be found in this work.
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