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Summary: an extraordinary love story
Review: first i was't excited at all as i realized that this book conserns a love story. I thought it would be a typical tearjerker, with a happy end. Everything would turn out well, a fairy-tale that would never happen in real life. But it wasn't that way at all. Not that it was any more realistic, but at least it was more thrilling to read.
Especially interesting I think is the structure of the book. By anticipating certain rather important things Graham Greene makes the reader curious to know the next event.
Nevertheless it was a little confusing to read and it's hard to reconstruct the plot.
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Summary: a marvelous story of true love
Review: Graham Green's book "Th End of the affair" is one of the best and fascionating book I've ever red. He discribes the affair between Sarah and Bendrix in a way you can really imagine everything, you see how they love each other etc. Indeed you suffer with them while you are reading the book and you have to think about the whole story all the time. This might be so because the book is written in the 1st person, called Bendrix, so you can identify with him rather well.
Although it's a sad book, I really like it and can recommend it. I think that's why the reader can see that the autor wrote this book with lots of feelings and lots of love. I'm looking forward to reading an other book of this wonderful authors as soon as possible .
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Summary: emotional bodytalking story
Review: A story you cannot put away until you have reached the last page. the relationships among the main characters are quite complicated and compactly described. The emotions and thoughts of the characters are on an upper level. The main characters have very interesting traits, although they have a few things in common, even if it's only a mutual need or love for each other, every single one of them is quite an individual (Bendrix, Sarah and Henry). Once you have finished the book, a lot of facts are still unclear and will remain a mystery to the reader.
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Summary: Come in or vanish forever,god!
Review: Have you ever thought of things like where the love ceases and the hate begins or has love and hate sth to do with god himself ? Do we all,men and women alike ,have our own gods or does love and hate come directly from the god or we are creating love and hate ? DO you believe in God or just think that everything is going on freely by your will and decision ? ARE YOU SURE?
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Summary: Scintillating Piece of Work
Review: William Faulkner said of this novel (and I quote here): "For me one of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language". If you need any more reason to read this book, then obviously it isn't for you to read.
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Summary: Unlikable Characters
Review: The End of the Affair was chosen for my book group and although I seriously tried very hard to like it, I just couldn't.The main problem is the characters, there isn't one that I can say that I liked at all and I felt their actions were too unbelievable. The story itself could not hold my attention, but I was able to finish the book. I have heard that the movie is better than the book so I will give it a try if I have the opportunity to rent it but I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: A story of love and hate...
Review: This book was a very interesting love story. It is a love story that fills you with sadness as you read it. Bendrix and Sarah are two people who are involved in a love affair with each other. Though Bendrix is a friend of Sarah's husband, Henry, that doesn't stop him from falling in love with her. The affair lasts for several years until a horrible accident forces Sarah to give Bendrix up.
The novel begins a couple of years after Sarah and Bendrix's last time to see each other. Over the months, Bendrix has had plenty of time to perfect his feelings of hate toward Sarah and Henry. His emotions take over when he finds that Sarah has another lover and he hires a detective to follow her around. The things that the detective uncovers make Bendrix rethink his feelings toward Sarah.
This is a book about love and hate and all other emotions in between. Green does a wonderful job of weaving this story together and making the characters come alive. It was a little hard to understand because there are so many jumps in time and it goes back and forth too much. But this affair isn't one of the trashy romances you would expect, but a story of two people in love and the circumstances that keep them apart.
I gave it 3 stars because I felt at times a little lost and confused about the events and when they were happening. Other than that, the plot is good, the characters are great, and the love story is thought provoking.
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Summary: Great book. I read the first 8 chapters in the store.
Review: The doomed love story of Bendrix and Sarah in "The End of the Affair" forced me to reflect on the power of faith and God himself, a creature I'm none too eager to embrace. Because it did this, I found myself very wrapped up in this book, moreso than I even wanted to be, for I was just browsing through the bookstore when I picked it up. I read the first eight chapters while I was still sitting in the store. At the point where I was still reading it after my fourth cup of Earl Grey, I realized that Graham Greene is a genius, and the book is incredibly smart. It's a fictionalized account of an affair between an author and his married neighbor during the air raids in WWII London that ended suddenly one day without explanation. Though their love was passionate and real, though Bendrix and Sarah were mad for each other, she ends the affair and all contact with him the day one of the shells goes off near the house they're occupying, momentarily knocking Bendrix unconscious. Something happened to Sarah while Bendrix was unconscious, something intangible, spiritual and rooted in her love, that scared her to death and forced her to break things off. But Bendrix, knowing Sarah is not one for cruelty, won't explain what happened and won't really even see him. Months afterward, Bendrix is still obsessed and hires a private investigator to find out what's become of Sarah and figure out why she dumped him so abruptly to return to the life with her husband that she didn't want or enjoy. All of this makes for, of course, fascinating mystery. It also leads in an unexpected direction regarding spirituality, the existence of God, the need for suffering and the occasional torture that rational thinkers face when dealing with the unexplainable. Bendrix, being a skeptic regarding God, can't quite deal with exactly what happened to Sarah, which he eventually discovers but cannot completely accept. This book affected the way I think. Brilliant novel.
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Summary: A classic written by a master.
Review: That's it. Read the book, not the reviews.
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Summary: Greene's best book
Review: I found this a moving tale about the obsession of love and the pain when it is unrequited. I have not been able to get into much of Greene's work, but this is the exception. I think it is the simplicity of the situation that makes this novel accessible, as well as the author's skill in putting into words the desperation Bendrix feels.
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