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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174760.The_Four_Loves?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Four Loves" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172430504m/174760.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174760.The_Four_Loves?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Four Loves</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis">C.S. Lewis</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19034113?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>This is an interesting book. C. L. Lewis describes his four categories of love: affection, friendship, Eros (romantic love) and charity (love of God and selfless love of others). I like his analysis of each kind of love and how affection, friendship and Eros can all have destructive sides to them. I also appreciate that he points out that the first three kinds of love need charity (need God) in order to thrive. However, while I think separating the loves for the purpose of description is useful, I also think that it makes love a little too simplistic. I would have liked to see a final chapter where he talked more about how the four loves work together. For example, I have affection for my husband, a friendship with him, I love him romantically, and hopefully I am charatible toward him. I think Lewis starts to go there in the chapter on charity, but I would have liked more. I also found him sexist when he said things like women don't understand friendship totally. But overall, I got something out of this book. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1037969?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>