Love Story: Erich Segal

I first came to know about Erich Segal's Love Story from a friend of mine, who was really crazy about this book. I wondered whats so unique about this book which differentiates it from other love stories!. Well, the opening statement itself had answer for all my queries:

" What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.”

This beautiful introduction says all about the plot; that it's a wonderful romantic story,yet a tragic one.

The story revolves around Oliver Barret IV, a rich Harward guy and Jennifer Cavilleri, a middle class music student. Opposites in nearly every way Ollie and Jenny, fell in love and built up a sweet life of their own, against all odds. However destiny had some other plans for them. One day, out of the blue, came death and separates them forever...

The plot is simple and is not the one that we haven’t heard before. But the way Erich Segal narrates it, makes Love Story to be the novel that defined a generation then..and now.

The author has really succeeded in making readers live with Oliver & Jenny, feeling their love and pain. There was a lump in my throat while reading the final pages. I was trying hard to hold back my tears, but failed very badly. Once I finished reading, the signature line of the story, spoken twice in the story by Oliver & Jenny persisted in my heart with an unknown pain.

"Love means, never having to say you are sorry".

I bet, once you start reading, you wont be able to let the book down until you turn the last page. You would be astonished seeing yourself full of tears.

Grab a copy of this book if you are in love, or was in love, or hopes to be in love.
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~aThi@~