The Lover by Marguerite Duras
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Book Reviews of The Lover
Book Review: SUPERIOR,A PERFECT MASTERPIECE,VISUALLY STUNNING,AND SENSOUS
Summary: 5 Stars
The Lover is DROP DEAD GORGEAUS. This novel is an emotional masterpiece that is a true story. The North China Lover is another book by Marguerite Duras and is also based on that ravishing affair. There was a dazzling motion picture of this novel that is masterful and I have never seen a film in my life that adapted a novel so well because in the exact same words and what the characters did were just outstanding on the silver screen. In the film the characters were the young Marguerite profoundly played by Jane March (who looks exactly like Marguerite Duras) and the man from cholon china passionately played by Tony Leung. The Lover is the best book ever, The best film ever, and the best soundtrack ever by Gabriel Yared which is beautiful and is outstanding for the book and the movie. This SUPERIOR MASTERPIECE by Marguerite Duras is about the intense,the passionate,the unforgettable, the haunting,and deeply forbidden affair between a poor fifteen year old french girl with serious problems back at her home in Sadec Vietnam and a wealthy engaged older chinese man in prewar Indochina. Duras' writing is so deep she paints the pictures of the intense, perfectly (and passionately) explicit and torridly scandelous experiances of the real lovers that are like nothing you've ever seen or experienced. This is a stunningly touching achievement that captures and embraces the incredible essence in sexual awakening,human love, and the deepest passion we all have inside. The Lover is like our deepest most intense fantasy put into words and it makes you feel much better because this happened. Anyone who is looking for a deeply erotic, melodramatic,amazing,sensously mesmerizing, and gripping story of mature love and sensual desire combined with continuously over the top erotica it will surely blow you away. I completely reccomend this breathtaking masterpiece.Book Review: SUPERIOR,A PERFECT MASTERPIECE,VISUALLY STUNNING,THE TOP
Summary: 5 Stars
The Lover is DROP DEAD GORGEAUS. This novel is an emotional masterpiece that is a true story. The North China Lover is another book by Marguerite Duras and is also based on that ravishing affair. There was a dazzling motion picture of this novel that is masterful and I have never seen a film in my life that adapted a novel so well because in the exact same words and what the characters did were just outstanding on the silver screen. In the film the characters were the young Marguerite profoundly played by Jane March (who looks exactly like Marguerite Duras) and the man from cholon china passionately played by Tony Leung. The Lover is the best book ever, The best film ever, and the best soundtrack ever by Gabriel Yared which is beautiful and is outstanding for the book and the movie. This SUPERIOR MASTERPIECE by Marguerite Duras is about the intense,the passionate,the unforgettable, the haunting,and deeply forbidden affair between a poor fifteen year old french girl with serious problems back at her home in Sadec Vietnam and a wealthy engaged older chinese man in prewar Indochina. Duras' writing is so deep she paints the pictures of the intense, perfectly (and passionately) explicit and torridly scandelous experiances of the real lovers that are like nothing you've ever seen or experienced. This is a stunningly touching achievement that captures and embraces the incredible essence in sexual awakening,human love, and the deepest passion we all have inside. The Lover is like our deepest most intense fantasy put into words and it makes you feel much better because this happened. Anyone who is looking for a deeply erotic, melodramatic,amazing,sensously mesmerizing, and gripping story of mature love and sensual desire combined with continuously over the top writing it will surely blow you away. I completely reccomend this breathtaking masterpiece.Book Review: SUPERIOR,A PERFECT MASTERPIECE,VISUALLY STUNNING, THE BEST
Summary: 5 Stars
The Lover is DROP DEAD GORGEAUS. This novel is an emotional masterpiece that is a true story. The North China Lover is another book by Marguerite Duras and is also based on that ravishing affair. There was a dazzling motion picture of this novel that is masterful and I have never seen a film in my life that adapted a novel so well because in the exact same words and what the characters did were just outstanding on the silver screen. In the film the characters were the young Marguerite profoundly played by Jane March (who looks exactly like Marguerite Duras) and the man from cholon china passionately played by Tony Leung. The Lover is the best book ever, The best film ever, and the best soundtrack ever by Gabriel Yared which is beautiful and is outstanding for the book and the movie. This SUPERIOR MASTERPIECE by Marguerite Duras is about the intense,the passionate,the unforgettable, the haunting,and deeply forbidden affair between a poor fifteen year old french girl with serious problems back at her home in Sadec Vietnam and a wealthy engaged older chinese man in prewar Indochina. Duras' writing is so deep she paints the pictures of the intense, perfectly (and passionately) explicit and torridly scandelous experiances of the real lovers that are like nothing you've ever seen or experienced. This is a stunningly touching achievement that captures and embraces the incredible essence in sexual awakenning,human love, and the deepest passion we all have inside. The Lover is like our deepest most intense fantasy put into words and it makes you feel much better because this happened. Anyone who is looking for a deep melodramatic,amazing, and gripping story of mature love it will surely blow you away. I completely reccomend this breathtaking masterpiece.Book Review: "The Lover" as a beautiful, mnemonic masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
I guess I'm writing this in response to some other reviews. I don't find "The Lover" "difficult to read," "totally orgasmic," or "completely lacking in plot." I read this incredible, lyrical book as if the narrator were sitting across from me in a quiet room, late at night, telling me softly about something beautiful that happened to her earlier in her life and has imbued her life hauntingly ever since. True, the novel doesn't follow ordinary chronological plot patterns. Nor would you, if you were to sit down with me, and tell me something beautiful and powerful from out of your childhood, because memory isn't constructed that way. You might talk to me for ten minutes about something from when you were 12, pause, find your own discussion taking you to something from when you were 10, and two minutes later, you might have to explain something slightly off-track again about a character you've just mentioned for the first time. So you see, it is the traditional chronological plot narrative that is unnatural. Duras' method is not only more natural, it is more personal and intimate, and helps give that feeling that her narrator is sitting across from you, sharing some beautiful memory with you. Nor is the book "orgasmic." Duras' writing is erotically charged as much from its misty veils of restraint as from that French way of thinking philosophically about love and sex. Please don't read this for a quick thrill. You will start out with the wrong frame of mind, will grow impatient, and will miss the overwhelming beauty of this wonderful novel.Book Review: Twisted and perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw the movie which was based on this book. I absolutely adored the movie and I couldn't wait to read the book. This book is one of the best books I ever read (and I read a lot). It's absolutely amazing. The story is about a fifteen-year-old girl who falls in love with a wealthy twenty-nine-year-old China man in 1930's Indochina. But the greatness of this book doesn't come from the story line, it lays in the way Marguerite Duras tells the story. From the first page you can feel that this is her story. Her prose is so poetic and hauntig, somewhat obsessive. This book is so intimate and personal. It felt like Marguerite was sitting right across me and telling me the story of her first real love and sexual experience. But the relationship between her and China man is not like a normal relationship between two people in love. At one point her lover gives her the money for sleeping with him. There is also an interesting relationship between Marguerite and her best friend, a beautiful girl named Helen Lagonelle. There is even a passage when the two kiss and when Marguerite finds out she's going back to France, she offers her lover to take Helen so he could forget her easier. This book is unforgettable. It's fantastic, hauntig and somewhat dark. It explores the human passion. I had an opportunity to read this book in french (the original)and I never knew before that french can be so beautiful. In short, this book is more than perfect and I recommend it to everyone who is looking for some twisted and unforgettable true story.