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Title: Endless Love by Scott Spencer ISBN: 0-88001-628-0 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: outstanding, breathtaking, truly unique experience....
Comment: I too thought this book was "my little secret!" How wonderful to hear from others who feel the same way. One of the few books that have truly broken my heart - I felt changed after I read it. My ideas on love, obsession, living, family, and madness - all were altered by Scott Spencers' suberb, unduplicable writing stye. The intensity of his emotional and physical descriptions, coming from the viewpoint of David, leave you breathless and yearing for more. A masterpiece novel - one of my all time favorites, 15 years after first reading it!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Unforgetable!
Comment: This is the absolute best book I have ever read. So good in fact that I have read it seven times and each time I read this book I find myself reacting like it was my first time reading it. There are not many books written that can capture your attention from cover to cover the way this book does. Scott Spencer is an exceptional author. The best part about reading books is that you are able to know what the narrarator is thinking and feeling and Spencer is able to explain every minute detail in such a way that you are able to feel what David Axlerod is feeling. I have recommended this book to everyone I know and I especially recommend this book to people who are often very apprehensive about reading love stories. Harlequin doesn't hold a candle to this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: A magnetic read you won't put down
Comment: "Endless Love."
This book belies its sappy name - which is also a pun, once you discover the staying power of the male protagonist. "Endless Libido" might have been more apropos.
I read this four-hundred page book in two days; it's that good.
What we have here is the classic crossed lovers scenario painted with twentieth century prose. The sexuality is graphic, lurid at times, but never prurient: comfortably, [naturally?] sacred and profane at the same time. The style is pure with clear magisterial "voice." Part of the novel's charm is the reverence with which the raunchiest encounters and juiciest passions are described.
The author's first person narrative reads as conventional text directed to you, the reader; then, suddenly, the author-reader contract is violated as the protagonist slips into another true confession to his "endless" love. As you gradually allow yourself to participate in the customary conventions of a willing suspension of disbelief between author and reader, you continually remark the absolutely intense perspicacity and eye for detail of the "teenage author." The sustained subliminal effect of this (eye for sensual detail) is evocative of Oscar Wilde: you're fascinated, you identify, you quietly and vicariously revel.
Fundamentally, this is a passion play, a book of torture, for the deepest of the pains of hell is the absence of the beloved, and the protagonist has his share of this living nightmare. Additionally, I didn't (nor do) care for the ending. If you've read the book, you likely know why. If you haven't, no matter. (I began having "1984" flashbacks reading the finale - and that is a very soulless affair, indeed.)
"Characters develop," we hear tell. There's not much of that here. It doesn't matter, either. For what we have here is a valuable testament to the power of love.
Typical fare:
"My imagination of disaster tormented me as if it were a separate, vicious self. I longed to stop thinking of consequences, just as we must do when we dive from high boards, leap on our skis down steep sunblind slopes, or play any of the other daredevil games we've invented as metaphors for love. (150)
"Ann's grief was like what I had known of love: it increased itself; it wound its way to its very source. . . . This, now, was Ann as she really was: savage, helpless, eternal. . . . Her hold on me was contact at its most true and elemental: like two wolves huddling together in a blizzard, we grabbed each other and held on to life. (240-1)
"Of course when you love someone it is a tireless passion to experience their pleasure, especially sexual pleasure. Of all the many perversions, the one I found myself most capable of succumbing to was voyeurism - as long as the object of my voyeurism was Jade. I never failed to be moved by her expressions of sexual pleasure. When we were first learning to make love and I had some trouble in controlling myself, she had to be careful to keep as quiet as possible. Even heavy breathing would speed my climax, not to even mention moans. Later in our life together, when we were making love three, four, and five times a night (for our passion grew with our prowess), Jade would sometimes become impatient for my final orgasm - which would come with more difficulty than hers, because of the natural differences between the genders - and to bring us safely home so we both might fall asleep she would feign groans of pleasure with her lips right next to my ear, or say my name. It wouldn't really take anything more than that." (313)
This is a book with a good heart.
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Title: A Ship Made of Paper : A Novel by Scott Spencer ISBN: 0060185341 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Waking the Dead by Scott Spencer ISBN: 0425169626 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Family History by Dani Shapiro ISBN: 0375415475 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer ISBN: 0684869403 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer ISBN: 0425169456 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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