05.15.07
a love story
This is a necessity. I have to post an entry about this. This is how you deal with the thought that keeps boggling your mind.
The book was recommended by Atty. Muria, saying that it is much better than A Walk to Remember and The Notebook. So after saving enough money, I did purchase it - Love Story by Erich Segal.
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
This was the novel’s introductory line.
It may sound strange but I have a special liking to conversations about death. And I do enjoy reading novels where dying is involved. It’s because the course of life and love is simply it - someone has to die. And another sad reality is that lovers do not die at the same time. Had they died that way, they would not have felt too much pain.
The story of Segal’s novel is the typical dying-young and a-walk-to-remember plot. One had to pass away early. The book’s glory is that it was published many years before Marti Leimbach’ Dying Young (1991) and Nicholas Sparks’s A Walk to Remember (1999). And more credit I would attribute to Segal’s Love Story (1970) because the dialogs are more striking, a few lines yet remarkable. It has a deeper concept, tackled what probably could be the greatest challenge of a relationship. Having provided the most exact answer to this challenge is the edge of the novel.
How people cry over sorrows of losing loved ones and ending precious relationships. But Jen has always said, and she has said it well, "Love is not ever having to say you’re sorry."
