This is one of the most celebrated love stories ever.Įrich Segal tells us the story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri, who are different in every way but immediately falls in love with each other. "That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid."
"I wouldn't go for coffee with you," she answered. "What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. I've read it several times since age 12, and every time it melts my stony callousy heart. It is a quintessential love story and is fully worth the few well-spent reading hours. It is sweet and touching but not overly melodramatic. It is beautiful, simple, short and funny. This book is written in a fresh and honest voice. It did so for me, and I am a self-proclaimed cold-hearted cynic. And me." We know about Jenny's death from the start, and it is a true testament to Segal's brilliant characterization and narrative skills that her death still hits home, still leaves all but the most heartless readers a bawling blob of tears and snot. "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. We are warned about her death in the very first (and famous) paragraph. They may or may not name their future kid Bozo the Clown. Few more Daddy issues ensue, a fight or two happens, the cheesy phrase (see above) is uttered to my sheer mortification. They fall in love despite the huge social gap between them. Oliver is a rich WASPy Harvard "Preppy" jock with a slew of Daddy issues and a Roman numeral after his name.
Jenny is a poor artistic sorta-Catholic Radcliffe-educated Italian-American brainiac with a razor-sharp tongue. Plus it's cheesy, corny, and insanely quotable, so I'll have to give it a pass on that.Ī girl and a boy meet and fall in love. Luckily it's a rare blemish on a simple but beautiful story.
"Love means never having to say you're sorry" is probably among some of the most ridiculous statements ever.
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