Marks the end of an age, and the inauguration of another in which everything about the doomed romance dramatized in Spenser's superb 1979 novel will be pathologized and self-helped to death. Compare the first novel in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Spring Snow (1969).
You recommended Endless Love to me - years ago. I read it then (a used copy with the original cover I got at the time for almost nothing), loved it and only just pulled it from the shelf last week and skimmed a bit of it - it's as great as I remember. I'm definitely going to re-read it .... possibly a Christmas read? Definitely an autumnal one. And yes, that romance could never happen today - and if it did, it would certainly be on the downest down-low ... Will check out Spring Snow ASAP, too!
Very glad to hear it! I just picked Endless Love off my shelf for the first time in years - it's now on my reading list, too. That's the problem with recommending books - I want to re-read them again and, well, there's only so much time in the day!
Another great one, Bryan, the mixture of topics is quite interesting. The history of Endless Love surprised me, I'd bet than a more faithful adaptation would made if the book was published today.
Thanks, Mark! I definitely think Endless Love is one of those books that would have benefitted enormously if it'd been written in the Netflix Age. The attempt to distill it down to a marketable film in the early 80s just didn't work. Maybe we should pool our resources and try to option it for a season or two?!
Marks the end of an age, and the inauguration of another in which everything about the doomed romance dramatized in Spenser's superb 1979 novel will be pathologized and self-helped to death. Compare the first novel in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Spring Snow (1969).
You recommended Endless Love to me - years ago. I read it then (a used copy with the original cover I got at the time for almost nothing), loved it and only just pulled it from the shelf last week and skimmed a bit of it - it's as great as I remember. I'm definitely going to re-read it .... possibly a Christmas read? Definitely an autumnal one. And yes, that romance could never happen today - and if it did, it would certainly be on the downest down-low ... Will check out Spring Snow ASAP, too!
And again, you’ve added two more things to my reading list! :)
Very glad to hear it! I just picked Endless Love off my shelf for the first time in years - it's now on my reading list, too. That's the problem with recommending books - I want to re-read them again and, well, there's only so much time in the day!
Loved the bit on turbulence--you’re right, it was consoling. Endless Love is on hold at the library--I’m with you as a devoted library user.
Libraries are humanity's greatest invention. Just saying.
Another great one, Bryan, the mixture of topics is quite interesting. The history of Endless Love surprised me, I'd bet than a more faithful adaptation would made if the book was published today.
Thanks, Mark! I definitely think Endless Love is one of those books that would have benefitted enormously if it'd been written in the Netflix Age. The attempt to distill it down to a marketable film in the early 80s just didn't work. Maybe we should pool our resources and try to option it for a season or two?!