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Love Story

Love means never having to say you're sorry...

He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.

She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.

Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything ... yet will end too soon. A love that will linger in your heart now and forever.

User Reviews about Love Story

Coincidentally, I was thinking of Love Story right around the time I heard Mr. Segal has died; I was thinking how many different ways we love each other, and what a true Love Story is, in light of Valentine's Day. I loved the book and the movie as a young girl, and while I am wiser now and some of the ideology I don't agree with perhaps anymore, I do believe in a love that is as strong as Jenny's and Oliver's. [...] -- Made an impression that has lasted nearly 40 years

In just a few words (like the story), this was too short. I did not feel a connection to the love between the characters or the characters. I thought it was a good story line, but it was so fast paced and short I felt no loss or sadness, nor romance. I liked it though, and wished it had been more detailed. -- Liked but did not love this story

It has been a long time since I was able to pick up a book and read it in a day (not necessarily a lack of shorter novellas in my library, but a lack of peace in the household and the freedom to just read). Love Story by Erich Segal broke my streak of 3 weeks spans between book completions.

Yes, it is a story of love, and I am a chick and cried at the end. But not only is it filled with pain, it is filled with a true sense of love that makes the pain that much more difficult to bear. Given that the opening line of the novel is a huge spoiler to the rest of the story, and that within the last 20 pages, it is obvious what the ending will entail. I still found myself completely wrapped up in Oliver and Jenny's love, their banter with one another, though. -- Tear jerker

I love this book. It's beautiful and charming. It can probably be read in a matter of hours. -- love story review

I read this as a young man and remember being moved to tears. I recently gave this to my teenaged granddaughter (an avid reader) and ske too, was moved by it's well written and deftly executed style. A truly marvelous and well written tear jerker. -- Hasn't lost it's power to move me.