Still thinking about Love Story - both the novel, and the movie. Having been reminded of the subject by the passing of Ryan O'Neal.
I wanted to find the book online and put an excerpt here, but can't find it online.
NPR had an article about it - the 50th anniversary, which would have been in 2020.
--------------------- [excerpt from the article] -------------------- Romance fiction writer Susan Elizabeth Phillips says critics back in 1970 had an aversion to just about anything that was embraced by the masses. "The fact that a work of art, which that book is, evokes this strong emotion was something that the literati at the time looked down on," says Phillips. "The experience was supposed to be cerebral. It wasn't supposed to be emotional."
If nothing else, Love Story is definitely emotional. Reviewing the film, Roger Ebert called it "a three-, four-or five-handkerchief movie." Le Monde wrote it was the novel that "no one dared to write, but everyone was waiting to read."
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Last Friday when I read O'Neal had died, I put a photograph of him with Farrah Fawcett at the top of my blog post here. Then, I thought later that people in my (older) age group will know, the photo of him with Farrah is because they were a couple from 1979 to 1997 (and got back together later on, after the split).
But, I realized, readers in younger age groups might see the photo and think, 'Oh, Farrah and Ryan in Love Story' - or whatever.
So - sorry if I caused any confusion, didn't mean to.
When they got together and started to show up in photographs during the '80s - each of them was so good-looking and had such charisma and photogenic quality - a picture of one of them was overwhelming. Both together, it was like - the beauty was so bright, ♪ ♪♫ ya had to wear shades....
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