Reviews

In Love by Alfred Hayes

ozielbispo's review against another edition

5.0

ELA- (já divorciada e com uma filha) O troca por um homem rico que poderá lhe dar um futuro melhor, segurança e bem-estar.
ELE -acomodado , um escritor sem inspiração, orgulhoso A perde por achar que o amor sufoca e por não ter condições de competir com um homem rico que pode dar ELA o que ELE não pode . Será que esse sentimento de liberdade DELE é só passageiro, que sofrerá por um amor perdido.Sera que o bem-estar DELA compensará , mesmo que não o ame e só esteja interessada no dinheiro ?
Um ensaio sobre o amor em todas as suas particularidades, com seus dilemas, ciúmes ,obsessões mágoas , chantagens...e caos!!
Onde há amor e sentimento haverá sempre sofrimento?
Um livro ímpar ..todos que já tiveram seus corações dilacerados se identificarão ainda mais com esse livro. Uma obra de arte , recomendo sua leitura a todos.
"No amor, precisamos praticar apenas uma coisa: deixar o outro partir. Segurá-lo é fácil; nós não precisamos aprender isto." Rilke

strrygo's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

beltorrealba's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

tashfox's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

jcovey's review against another edition

5.0

A noir romance. Populated by the broken and the breaking, their lives steered by the dual forces of passions beyond their control and the seductive allure of the money that promises happiness but leads inexorably to its ruin.

malasopa's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

katejeffrie's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

alexandravp's review against another edition

4.0

A doomed love affair in post WWII New York from the perspective of a 40-year old man. In Love is a book about not knowing that you are in love, not giving enough, resentment, bitterness, jealousy, cowardice, heartbreak, anger, and more importantly love, healthy or not. Almost anyone who has ever been in love can feel at least a line or two of what this man was feeling.

“There were times when I would forget her, though they were rare, and it would be for a time as though she had never existed; and then some passing girl's inadvertent gesture, or an accidental profile, or a hat like hers, would restore her, and restore the suffering too, and I would long again, somehow, to encounter or to see her.”

The male perspective threw me off at times, but then again how could a story written by a man in 1950 about a man's opinion on women not have that effect on me. Pretty much the reason why this is not a 5 stars for me.

lilbalzac's review against another edition

maybe my favorite ending lines of a book ever?

shmango1's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0