jennatandy28's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I love love. This book taught me more about love and made me love love more. This was such a fantastic study into the different factors that change how we love or cause us to love. I greatly recommend it to everyone!
kristakruger's review against another edition
4.0
Finally, after nearly 3 months of reading bits and pieces at a time, I have finished A Book About Love. It was actually a really great read, despite the obnoxious amount of time it took me to get through it. This book examines many different variants of love. Love for a partner, love for friends, love for your children. It explores experiments and research and really made me question everything I thought I knew about love.
"The mystery of love is the mystery of our lives: we are bound by a force we cannot fathom, driven by desires we cannot deny. Because there is no resisting the feeling: our existence depends on it. So we keep falling in love and falling again."
"The mystery of love is the mystery of our lives: we are bound by a force we cannot fathom, driven by desires we cannot deny. Because there is no resisting the feeling: our existence depends on it. So we keep falling in love and falling again."
a_pilgrim's review against another edition
3.0
A Book About Love is an interesting and more than that informative read. It is not just about love, but also the various psychological/emotional that lead to or directly/indirectly involved with Love. The book is not very focused on the subject (Title: Love), but has some good points.
mejevika's review against another edition
3.0
Same psychology research as in every other pop psychology book, tied together by an unconvincing narrative. Meh
lmdo's review
3.0
Some interesting studies mentioned, but any book about "love" is bound to a be a bit pop. Well-written though, as you'd expect from Lehrer and interesting to see how he addressed his previous instances of plagiarism too.
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