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True Love
The beloved author of the modern classic book "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" now tackles life' s most mysterious, joyous and most confusing topic -- love. An irresistible collection of real-life love stories, mixed with Robert Fulghum' s own quirky insights and unmistakable homespun observations, "True Love" tells the many unpredictable tales of love...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
January 7th 1998
by HarperTorch
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To get the stories for this book, this guy sat outside a coffeeshop with a sign that said he would buy people coffee if they would tell him their love stories. Then he took those stories and turned them into this book.
I have read a better collection of love stories than this one, though I can't remember the name of it. The thing I didn't like about this one was that about half of them seemed to be stories about what I would NOT consider true love. Things like, a crush on the woman who makes your...more
I have read a better collection of love stories than this one, though I can't remember the name of it. The thing I didn't like about this one was that about half of them seemed to be stories about what I would NOT consider true love. Things like, a crush on the woman who makes your...more
May 03, 2012
Theresa ♫
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Fellow humans in search for a varied assortment of love stories
Shelves:
the-non-fiction-shelf
Yup, I read through all of these stories! I didn't skip a single one!
WHOOOOOOOO HOOOOO my first Robert Fulghum book! I've been wanting to read a book of his since I saw this huuuuge picture frame in my biology classroom.
It was the main article of "All I Really Needed To Know, I Learned In Kindergarten". MY FAVORITE ARTICLE EVER!
So anyway, this book...this book...this book...
Is pretty short.
It's made up of these short love stories (short meaning "2-4 pages long each") that have been sent to the a...more
WHOOOOOOOO HOOOOO my first Robert Fulghum book! I've been wanting to read a book of his since I saw this huuuuge picture frame in my biology classroom.
It was the main article of "All I Really Needed To Know, I Learned In Kindergarten". MY FAVORITE ARTICLE EVER!
So anyway, this book...this book...this book...
Is pretty short.
It's made up of these short love stories (short meaning "2-4 pages long each") that have been sent to the a...more
Imagine PostSecret, but more than just a sentence, and without pictures.
Robert Fulghum invited people to tell him true love stories - not stories they'd read about, but stories they had experienced. He's compiled a group of them for this book. The stories are short - a page or three at most, and cover all different aspects of love... the beautiful and the painful.
It's a great book to pick up and set down - the stories taken all at once are a bit overwhelming. That being said, I read it in two...more
Robert Fulghum invited people to tell him true love stories - not stories they'd read about, but stories they had experienced. He's compiled a group of them for this book. The stories are short - a page or three at most, and cover all different aspects of love... the beautiful and the painful.
It's a great book to pick up and set down - the stories taken all at once are a bit overwhelming. That being said, I read it in two...more
One of the few authors who can truly write for any age. I love everything about this book, especially his method of collecting the stories. As with all of his books, it's something you can read starting in the middle, put down for a month, and come back to start somewhere completely different. And every bit that you read makes you feel more human and more content. I always feel like I have truly gotten "it," whatever it is, after reading Robert Fulghum.
page 4: People sometimes said they had a story but needed to get permission from someone else before they could share it. One example was a middle-aged man in suit and tie, carrying the Wall Street Journal both times I met him. The second day he came back to give me a pale blue envelope--perfumed--the kind used for personal correspondence. He said, "Before you read this, you should know that I've had it for at least ten years, that it's from my wife, to whom I am still married." Inside the envel...more
I'm changing my review! I decided to re-read three of Fulghum's books that I had not liked at first. This is one of them. 15 years later, I'm finding that I really missed the boat on this little gem. Unlike Fulghum's other books, this is a compilation of stories sent in by readers / fans of his previous books. These stories are short, true essays on everyday people's experience of love. Some are touching...some are heart-warming...some are heart-breaking and most put a smile on your face. I'm gl...more
This is a wonderful collections of love stories, even though most of the stories told are not love stories in the common use of the phrase. It's a feel good book with anecdotes on every aspect of love.
i read the large print version and with these disconnected pieces it was a little more challenging to enjoy the book as much. but right before my wedding this weekend, the perfect thing to read.
This is a wonderful collection of short stories that Robert Fulghum has gathered, some told to him over a cup of coffee, some sent to him anonymously, all dealing with a type of love that’s been experienced. After reading this collection it's amazing to find how that one little word inspires different emotions amoung all who it touches and how they decode that feeling.
Love.
It evokes different reactions among people we know, among the strangers we pass on the street. While some of these stories...more
Love.
It evokes different reactions among people we know, among the strangers we pass on the street. While some of these stories...more
sometimes i wonder if these stories were real ... especially the couple who married after 15 years after a random encounter that didn't last too long ...
Love this book still read it to this day. It opened my eyes to many forms of love. It also helped me to look for love is the strangest of places.
Dec 30, 2008
Yim Ch.
is currently reading it
As in the book said, read this book slowly and dun go straight on through. Too much true love stories(of others) really do cause heartburn.
This is one of my all-time favorite books! I read snippets of this book over and over again, whenever I want that warm fuzzy feeling. :)
A lovely collection of love stories, with some of the best quotes I adore. This book is marvelous. A must have for my classroom library.
I reread these stories all the time. The romantic in me cannot get enough of this book.
I like Fulghum. He inspires me. I thought this book was romantic in a very real life way.
I love other people's love stories, and this is a great collection of them!
If you want to know what love is, read this book.
awesome. just great. simple and beautiful.
Great book! My cup of tea!
Sep 10, 2012
Maroua
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I LOOOOOOOOOVED IT
Worse than "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul".
It was a great book with amazing stories.
This book was still very Robert Fulghumy, but about about Love, and I really liked it. Best of all, at the end of the book they asked for more love stories to be submitted by readers to possibly be published in a sequel book, and I submitted one! I was 19, I think, and very much in love with some guy who didn't care two shakes about me. Ha! It makes me laugh whenever I think of it. What a funny memory for me.
This book has somehow opened my eyes, made me look for love everywhere. It took me time to get through it, but just because I needed to feel each of those amazing, touching stories. I loved all previous Fulghum's book and althought this is different than the others, the special warmth of his books doesn't missing in here. Definitely goes to favorites and I will read it again soon.
"My dearest Harry: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Respectfully, with all my love, Edna."
I bought this book when I was so much younger and impressionable. But the stories do stand the test of time, and youth, and idealism, and the world. Which is why this book matters, and why I will still read it, years from now, after I have been battered and bruised and got the shit kicked out of me by love.
I bought this book when I was so much younger and impressionable. But the stories do stand the test of time, and youth, and idealism, and the world. Which is why this book matters, and why I will still read it, years from now, after I have been battered and bruised and got the shit kicked out of me by love.
I wish I could give it 3 and 1/2 stars but I can so I gave 3. 4 would be to many for my own taste. But at the same time how do you rate other peoples experiences. This book has a bunch of "True Love stories" written or told by ral people some of them cute, some suprising and some very endearing. It very entretaining. If you like to read stories you'll like this book.
It's a collection of love stories from many people. There're wonderful, lovely stories in this books. This is the book you will love. Each story has its own charm and memory. You'll love this book like me,check it out!
fun read around Valentines day
You'd be better off finding a chicken soup book on love stories...they're a little more consistent, though the project of finding some of the best love stories seemed like it was a good idea.
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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
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