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    <body><![CDATA[This writer is BRILLIANT!! So insightful, funny, erudite. He analyzes the complete cycle of a relationship from lust to bitter breakup. He is SO emphatically on the woman's side, which I liked ;)  Oh, and he also uses diagrams and drawings to make his points - very original.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I quite liked it! I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536.The_Lovely_Bones" title="The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold">On Love</a> a few years back, and that one somehow didn't quite keep me very engaged. But this book definitely struck a chord, grin, perhaps because I can definitely be as neurotic as Alice. I thought it odd though that de Botton ended up doing a better job giving insight to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41679906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A simple &quot;looking for love story&quot;, not half as interesting as Briget Jones but adequate for the Sunday afternoon Romance Channel, loosely sprinkled around an overdose of undergraduate erudition from an author that never learned to K.I.S.S.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Stendhal pessimistically suggested that there would always be one person who loved more than the other and hence, by implication, that there would always be an awareness of power in a relationship.&quot;  p.139]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear God, I need to find this man and take him to Vegas. Love, love, love everything he writes.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is starting to annoy me... i usually really like parts of de botton and dont like others, but its hard for me to read this one. i think the stereotypes are a little much for me, even though that's probably intentional.  From what I've read, I thought his other book in this vein, On Love, was mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1664729">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book on the course of a relationship from beginning to end from the pont of view of the female character, Alice.  In the same vain as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=  On Love" title="  On Love">  On Love</a>, this novel is full of diagrams, analsyses, and meanderings about our behavior in a relationship.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[witty little book by an author who obviously thinks he is smarter than you. Characters aren't terribly likable, although who is when they are in love? Anyway, good little philosophical side-notes and observations about the nature of relationships. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Worth a read.  Reminded me of how much harder it was to be a really young adult...the heartbreak, the insecurity, the constant guessing at what the other person is thinking... So much nicer to be older and not give a $%#$.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought my copy from a secondhand shop in London by chance. Not the best de Botton novel, but his witty interjections of literature, art, and philosophy between descriptions of life in London is always welcome. (de Botton)]]></body>
    
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