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Work InformationEndless love by Scott Spencer (1979)
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No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() (From www.pingwings.ca) Cover image and summary from Goodreads: One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual, Endless Love tells the story of David Axelrod and his overwhelming love for Jade Butterfield. I read this for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Book Clubâs February pick, and wowâŠI had no idea what to expect with this one. The characters were all so unlikeable and so strange. A family that does drugs together and not only permits their teenage daughterâs boyfriend to practically move in but buys them a huge bed to share? Strange. And the boyfriendâs parents donât seem to do anything about this? Strange. David was so self-centred. Everything was about him. Someoneâs divorce, someoneâs death, you name it, he found a way to make it all come back to him. And I couldnât tell what he and Jade even saw in each other, other than the physical attraction, because the book picks up after their relationship has sort of ended. Without knowing what it was that created that spark between the two of them, I found it very difficult to care about their âendless loveâ (haha). I thought that David was obsessed with Jade. He declared his love for her, committed crimes and violated conditions of his release because of his feelings for her, basically stalked her family in order to stalk her, etc. I found none of that romantic. I did see the film adaptation with Kathy, and other than the names and a house fire, there wasnât much else that seemed to come from the book. And you know what? I liked the movie! It honestly bore zero resemblance to the book, but I could tell just from the commercials that it was very very different, and I appreciated that. Had the movie followed the book much more closely, it would have been bleak. I found the book sort of depressing, to be honest. Davidâs whole life was about Jade and in the end, it didnât land him anywhere good. I felt bad for him, but I felt worse for the people that he had hurt in his quest to find and be with Jade. I was really looking forward to our book club discussion on this one! There were some parts of the book that I know had us all reaching for the mind bleach (chapter 14!). Iâm not really sure how to rate this one. I didnât hate it, but I didnât love it. I didnât like most (any?) of the characters, but thought the book overall was pretty well written. Iâm all mixed up about this one! "All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else." There are books that you like,and there are some that make you feel lucky to have read them. This one belongs to the second category. You just can't help liking David's character. May be it's because he loves truly ye he makes mistakes so we can relate to him,or may be he is an open book of heartache we all sometimes experience in life,or he fascinates us because of his being too real. I felt lucky to have read this classic romance,and I recommend it to everyone. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: The impassioned love of two teenagers leaves a path of destruction in its perilous wake Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod is consumed with his love for Jade Butterfield. So when Jade's father exiles him from their home, David does the only thing he thinks is rational: He burns down their house. Sentenced to a psychiatric institution, David's obsession metastasizes, and upon his release, he sets out to win the Butterfields back by any means necessary. Brilliantly written and intensely sexual, Endless Love is the deeply moving story of a first love so powerful that it becomes dangerousâ??not only for the young lovers, but for their families as well. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Scott Spencer, including rare photos from the author's personal collection. No library descriptions found. |
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