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Summary: Insightful Read
Review: "Labyrinth of Desire" by Rosemary Sullivan offers an insightful look into women in obessive relationships, exploring the during and aftermath, picking apart what really happens and why. An interesting and novel look at something we all wonder about. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Insightful Read
Review: "Labyrinth of Desire" by Rosemary Sullivan offers an insightful look into women in obessive relationships, exploring the during and aftermath, picking apart what really happens and why. An interesting and novel look at something we all wonder about. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Note to smart women everywhere: we too are frail...
Review: "Labyrinth of Desire" is a real wake-up call for those of us who consider ourselves too smart, too tough and too self-assured to measure our worth through any man. Sullivan methodically and painstakingly peels back the myths we concoct in our heads to justify our bizarre and often unhealthy relationships, and forces us to face the awful truth: smart, wise, wordly women are just as prone to losing themselves in relationships as the "clingy", "needy" women we look down on. For the woman who sees through books like "The Rules" and would never be caught dead reading Cosmo, Sullivan brings us face to face with our own frailty, but respects us enough not to offer any pat solutions. A must-read for otherwise smart, tough women who always find themselves in cononundrums with smart, narcissistic, troubled men they secretly want to "save" or who "only" they understand. (frequent daters of artists and writers will know EXACTLY what I mean)
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Summary: The complete truth
Review: A romantic at heart, this book provided a new insight into love and it's many forms - and an explanation for why some girls (and guys) fall in love so quickly, passionately, and often. Her description of the two main types of romantic love (mainly focusing on obsessive romantic love a.k.a. short-term, lustful love) via storytelling is both entricate and easy to understand. Anyone who has ever been in love can relate to this, and it certainly provides a medium for exploring not only the loves we have had and may have, but also views of love and ourselves. A must read for all lovers the world over.
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Summary: The complete truth
Review: A romantic at heart, this book provided a new insight into love and it's many forms - and an explanation for why some girls (and guys) fall in love so quickly, passionately, and often. Her description of the two main types of romantic love (mainly focusing on obsessive romantic love a.k.a. short-term, lustful love) via storytelling is both entricate and easy to understand. Anyone who has ever been in love can relate to this, and it certainly provides a medium for exploring not only the loves we have had and may have, but also views of love and ourselves. A must read for all lovers the world over.
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Summary: what do women want?
Review: It amazes me that otherwise educated and articulate scholars and professors, like Rosemary Sullivan, are woefully ignorant of research in sociobiology into the nature of gender. Not only is Sullivan unaware of these studies, but she also seems to either dismiss, or lack knowledge of, the folk wisdom of centuries. She writes well of what she calls the "obsessive" romantic love that women seek, and of their anguish, grief and loss when this love ends. She writes of gifted, strong women who subjugate their own talents and careers to those of men. She does not factor into her analysis the fact that women, as mammalian creatures, are hardwired physiologically and hormonally for connectedness. Yes, we are more than mere animals, but a good starting point in searching for reasons for women's behavior is to look at our physical makeup. Without women's need to be connected to a man, to bear and to nurture children, to cherish family and community ties, our species would soon become extinct.
At the emotional core of a woman is not just "obsessive" love for a man, not just romantic passion for physical lovemaking, but also the fierce, unending, protecting and nurturing love of a mother for her children. Women soon learn that they need the structures of society, especially those pertaining to marriage and the family, to sustain their search for personal fulfillment. Wise women (including those who have had to learn the hard way) know that they trespass outside these structures at their own peril. Yes, romantic love is wonderful, and falling in love is an unforgettable, defining experience; but especially for women, that experience is only the prelude to a rich and satisfying life.
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Summary: A Must Read Book For Anyone Interested In Relationships!
Review: Labyrinth of Desire is a must read book for anyone that is interested in relationships -- This is a compelling story about one woman's experience with obsession. The author award winning Canadian writer and poet Rosemary Sullivan is world famous for her many biographies of writers.
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Summary: The Rules for overeducated women
Review: Labyrinth of Desire is The Rules for women of ample brain. Like the authors of that classic self-help manual for the man-crazy, rosemary sullivan understands the ways in which love drives women mad. by looking at literature & movies, sullivan identifies the love stories that make women a bit stupid, the stories that help us to confuse fantasy with reality. but sullivan offers neither advice for navigating through these narratives to marriage -- a la The Rules -- nor does she teach us how to steer clear of the doomed romance altogether. rather, she analyzes the tragic love story as the female version of the hero's quest, & celebrates it as a revelatory life experience. Labyrinth of Desire is erudite, insightful, deliciously compassionate, & ultimately empowering.
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Summary: rosemary sullivan. goddam.
Review: sexy. compelling. engrossing. insightful. and empowering.
we do lose ourselves when we fall in love and I now know what it was. I feel woken up and shaken. I can logically analyze what had happened. I also have to read Wethering Heights again with more clarity.
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Summary: Where was this book when I was in high school?
Review: Wonderful, thoughtful book that I wish someone had given me long ago. Why do we fall in love? What does it mean to fall in love? What are we searching for? Intoxicating.
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