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A review by jennifer
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
3.0
Billed as Alain de Botton's first new novel in over 20 years, The Course of Love is largely a typical de Botton non-fiction work, this time on the subject of marriage, with a story of a married couple living in Edinburgh thrown in to illustrate his points. The non-fiction part is presented in constant interjections to the plot via italicized commentary, making Botton guilty of the writing sin of telling rather than showing. That I agreed with his points and occasionally felt validated helped.
In the end, nobody can say the author didn't warn us: the word "course" is in the title, and the book sometimes feels like taking one. Luckily, I'm the kind of person who would sign up for a class at de Botton's School of Life, so I didn't mind much.
In the end, nobody can say the author didn't warn us: the word "course" is in the title, and the book sometimes feels like taking one. Luckily, I'm the kind of person who would sign up for a class at de Botton's School of Life, so I didn't mind much.