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Summary: An OUTSTANDING exploration of how and why we love
Review: Dr. Person skillfully demystifies romantic love and answers the most fundamental questions associated with the topic. Through excellent literary and contemporary references, her points are well examined and accessible to the average reader. This is an absolute must-read for anyone attempting to understand what makes us fall in romantic love; Dr. Person anticipates your questions and explores every conceivable facet of this fascinating topic. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: A banal book about love...
Review: Maybe I shouldn't be reviewing this book, but I found it so boring I could not get into it. I found her observations about love to be trivial. Much of the discussion makes reference to Freud (one of the biggest quacks of the 20th century) and uses an intellectual tone to try to demonstrate unfounded generalities. Not very informative, not very interesting and not at all scientific.
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Summary: A banal book about love...
Review: Maybe I shouldn't be reviewing this book, but I found it so boring I could not get into it. I found her observations about love to be trivial. Much of the discussion makes reference to Freud (one of the biggest quacks of the 20th century) and uses an intellectual tone to try to demonstrate unfounded generalities. Not very informative, not very interesting and not at all scientific.
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Summary: Couldn't get into it
Review: Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't get past a few chapters of this book. It is sometimes eloquent, but seems to just describe the human experience of falling in love, without drawing any interesting conclusions or making any hypotheses. I kept waiting for something to make me think or go "aha!". But after a few chapters I found myself wondering what the point of the book was, and getting bored as it drags on describing.Its style is also not my style, launching into a lot of description without enough examples. Those examples that are used are from literature and bible stories, which to me seem to further separate the book from reality. I would have been much more intrigued by stories or examples of real people. Maybe I missed something, but I just didn't see where it was going, and got too bored to continue.
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Summary: Couldn't get into it
Review: Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't get past a few chapters of this book. It is sometimes eloquent, but seems to just describe the human experience of falling in love, without drawing any interesting conclusions or making any hypotheses. I kept waiting for something to make me think or go "aha!". But after a few chapters I found myself wondering what the point of the book was, and getting bored as it drags on describing. Its style is also not my style, launching into a lot of description without enough examples. Those examples that are used are from literature and bible stories, which to me seem to further separate the book from reality. I would have been much more intrigued by stories or examples of real people. Maybe I missed something, but I just didn't see where it was going, and got too bored to continue.
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