2007-05-11 10:04:25 · 30 answers · asked by Lotcie 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I know I'm the third person to say it, and despite the fact that I love lots of the classic stories, I have to agree that The Notebook takes some beating. The story will stay with you forever and make you appreciate the love that you have before you lose it. Nicholas Sparks' other books are very memorable too. A second vote for a modern love story would be A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy; quite strange that they're both male writers, when normally speaking I think women write better love stories.
2007-05-12 03:01:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet - it captures the agony of first love..its obstacles, its immediacy, its eternal illusion - the fact they die means that moment is forever frozen.. had they lived ofcourse they would have gone on to learn what we all do -
That there is no such thing as 'the one'..instead we are all able to feel the same about many people and also that that intitial (what psychologists call 'pair bonding') stage is a phsyiological way of gluing you to another and during that stage, feeling almost addicted, high and like love interest is perfect for you (as their flaws are supressed in the part of the brain to do with judgement to aid cohesion) fades with time..
If Romeo and Juliet had lived they would have gone on to a 'pair maintenance' stage where although still fond of one another the initial high would have faded and they either would stay together but on a less intense scale or split up when their flaws at first ignored became irritating..
2007-05-11 10:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first romantic love story ever written was penned at the beginning of the European renaissance in the 13th Century by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) for his love Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290).
2007-05-11 10:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love In The Time of Cholera ( El amor en los tiempos del cólera) ,by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This tale of unrequited yet ultimately fulflled love resonates on many levels from individual to culture to basic human existence. By writing of pure unrequited love, the story maintains the tension of love throughout the decades of the characters life, their cultures progression and the worlds events. IMHO
2007-05-12 14:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a tough question but if I have to pick one, I would say The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. Only a man could have written such a beautiful story!
2007-05-11 11:55:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly Romeo and Juliet (and also, as one of your respondents says) the story of Dante and Beatrice (there is an excellent piece about this in another novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark). But I think I would have to go for Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. It's excellent. And I say that as one who has read all of the diaries by Tolstoy's wife, showing what a really bad lot he was as a man and a husband and a father.
2007-05-11 11:35:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wuthering Heights
2007-05-11 14:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by txswanie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wuthering Heights
2007-05-11 10:08:14 · answer #8 · answered by Elle J Morgan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a tough one, but I would have to put Jane Eyre at the top of the list. Others I like are: Rebecca, The Notebook, and Wuthering Heights.
2007-05-11 12:09:02 · answer #9 · answered by midoriflower2000 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think that 'going home' is a really lovely one but thats because i've just finished it and i have that warm feeling inside.
alot of love stories are written brilliantly though, like my sister loves Wuthering Heights. Nice question btw, x
2007-05-11 10:13:19 · answer #10 · answered by FreakGirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋