Sav's Book Club: Love Story by Erich Segal

A beautiful poem by Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Love Story by Erich Segal

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Ok now first off all let me tell you that I don't really prefer romantic novels but this book is an exception.
A classic timeless story about Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law and Jennifer Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. They are complete oppsites in nearly everyway but finally fall for each other. I am not going to tell you much about this story because I want you to read it for yourself and experience the after reading impact.
Some facts taken from wikipedia about this book - Love Story is a 1970 romance novel by American writer Erich Segal. The book's origins were in that of a screenplay Segal wrote and was subsequently approved for production by Paramount Pictures. Paramount requested that Segal adapt the story into novel form as a preview of sorts for the film. The novel was released on February 14, 1970, Valentine's Day.. Portions of the story originally appeared in The Ladies' Home Journal. Love Story became the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States, and was translated into more than 20 languages. A sequel, Oliver's Story, was published in 1977. The film (Love Story) was released on December 16, 1970.
This is a story which will stay in your heart forever.