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What's your favourite book about love? A friend recently asked on Facebook: "What's your favourite book about love? (Doesn't have to be about romantic love.)" [Edited 7/11/13 19:22pm] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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For me....right now.... Liseys Story. The relative characters have a bond through personal language and were aware(to a degree)of what the other was thinking w/o speech. Those are some of the things i enjoy most in a relationship...when a twitch of an eyebrow can confidently convey a million words. | |
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The Bible. The Tijuana version. | |
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I happen to like William Steig's "C D B!" I know, it is for little kids probably, but what a wonderful sentiment in it as you read lines like: A P-N-E 4 U. (With a picture of a boy giving a girl a peony.) It's cute, kinda like reading a secret code or trying to figure out what some vanity license plates say.
Here is a summary about the book: CDB! is a children's book written and illustrated by William Steig, published in 1968 by Simon & Schuster (ISBN 0671650238). The book is a collection of pictures with captions written in code, with each letter in the caption standing for a word the letter's name sounds like. The title, CDB!, thus translates as "See (CEE) The (DEE) Bee (BEE)!" The illustrations that accompany the codes show scenes which help the reader decode the caption. The cover illustration shows a child pointing out a bee to another child. The book was updated by Steig over 30 years later by adding both color to his illustrations as well as an answer key at the end of the book. Steig followed this book with a sequel, CDC?. | |
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Wuthering Heights | |
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To Kill A Mocking Bird (It's the fist book that popped into my mind.) There is a lot of love for one another in difficult times in this book.( I'm sure there are better books about love.) 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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[Edited 7/11/13 21:07pm] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Gracia Marquez. One of my all time favs!
Great writing and an incredible story about love and patience. | |
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can't beat a bit of mills & boon/ barbara cartland. ditzy old mare | |
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In terms of romantic love . . .
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An obvious choice, but still mine. [Edited 7/12/13 13:01pm] Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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Efan said: Wuthering Heights Awesome book. My favorite is Persuasion by Jane Austen. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Les Misérables
all kinds of love in that masterpiece  | |
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I have no idea why the "Xenogensis" trilogy came to mind, it's science fiction, there's no romantic love in it, definitely not an obvious story about love but then love of the human race is the foundation of it so I guess it fits. | |
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Another nod to...
Persuasion by Jane Austen. | |
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kewlschool said: To Kill A Mocking Bird (It's the fist book that popped into my mind.) There is a lot of love for one another in difficult times in this book.( I'm sure there are better books about love.) | |
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I am so glad no one so far has said "Twilight" (by Stephanie Meyers). I read it wanting to know what all the fuss was about before the movie came out and all I remember thinking throughout it was, "Okay already. When are they going to do it?' | |
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I really enjoyed this book as a teenager (still do-I also have the movie.) The whole slice of life is what so great about that book. Plus, the fight for justice for all mankind was pretty awesome too. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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In my spare time this summer I've been reading short story collections from J. California Cooper----all about love...
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The New Testament. | |
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I realized when I started to think of an answer that I most of my favorite books would not be considered as being about love.
I came up with
Old Yeller
and the Tale of Cupid and Psyche from Metamorphoses (aka The Golden Ass)
all the other books I like that are sort of about love end in heartbreak. The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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50 shades of grey! | |
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My kid just read "Where the Red Fern Grows" - about a boy's love for his dogs, and their love for him, and also family. Makes you want go out and pat a dog on the head!
Also, speaking of books for kids, "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein - about a boy's love for a tree, and it's love for him. Gets me teary-eyed every time! [Edited 7/17/13 1:24am] | |
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Um -
Forget it. | |
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Jane Eyre
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artist76 said: My kid just read "Where the Red Fern Grows" - about a boy's love for his dogs, and their love for him, and also family. Makes you want go out and pat a dog on the head! Also, speaking of books for kids, "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein - about a boy's love for a tree, and it's love for him. Gets me teary-eyed every time! [Edited 7/17/13 1:24am] That book fuckin made me cry... :smh: Loved the part about how to catch a coon.  | |
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Wuthering Heights would be my first choice. Then Galilee by Clive Barker. "Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack | |
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Juggs, November 2012 issue.
12 inches of non-stop soul | |
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