The History of Love- what an awful title of a book! I was never interested in reading this book because of it's title. I didn't judge it by it's cover but by it's title. I had no idea what the book was about, but the title made me not want to read it. I had preconceived ideas what the book would be about, how it would be written as well as the type of people who would read it.
What made me eventually pick up the book and read it-you might wonder... besides the fact that people kept on recommending it to me. Well a woman came into the library not long ago and asked for the book. She said people had kept on recommending it to her and she'd always put it off because of it's title, but she had now eventually decided to give a chance.
I had recently finished reading my own book and felt i needed a bit of an easy read.
I starting reading this book thinking i was going to read some easy, lovey-dovey crap that would take me a couple of days to read.
How wrong i was...
It wasn't a difficult book, but the language used was sophisticated. But the set up of the book was completely logical if you knew it was going to happen. Since i starting reading with the impression it would be so easy i didn't even concentrate while i was reading and therefore missed the plot right from the spot-silly me!
There was hardly, if any, lovey-dovey stuff. It was more history than love...
I love how it contained so many different characters that you needed to keep track of. I loved the little stories on the side of the main plot and my favourite angle in any novel is when the separate stories intertwine and come together.
I think it was written well. Not a lot of underlining meanings or metaphors. And as usual the turning point arrives in the middle of the book...
It was a good read-besides the title. That's all i have to say about that...
