The Course of Love

When I picked up this book, it wasnt about how to enjoy but how it would teach me. The beginning was good but somewhere in the middle I almost gave up because I couldn't relate anymore.. Along the way, I had the thought of… Do I truly want to fall in love and be in a relationship, or am I genuinely content staying single? This isn't a romantic book in the way most people would expect instead it talks about the reality of loving another human being. Falling in love is easy, or maybe it comes naturally but its staying in love is the difficult part. Though we are all vulnerable!… We carry our own wounds, fears, flaws, and expectations into every relationship. Sometimes we blame our partners for what they never understood because we never truly expressed it ourselves. The greatest failure of many relationships isn't the absence of love, it's miscommunication, assumptions, and the inability to honestly say what we're feeling… More than anything, this book taught me.. “The partner truly best suited us is not the one miraculously happens to share every taste but the one who can negotiate differences in test with intelligence and good grace”… Love is about accepting another person's differences while recognizing our own imperfections. Overall this book offers so much to reflect on about how we perceive love, how we give it, and how we hope to receive it. Whether you're single, in a relationship, or married… I think there's something meaningful to take away from this book.

I’m really liking it. If you liked the school of life an emotional education you will like this one.

Great read, great insight, a delightful read for anyone exploring the topic.

Contemporary philosopher Alain de Botton's long awaited second novel follows the relationship between Rabih and Kirsten. De Botton's thesis is essentially this: While most love stories tell us everything we need to know about how love begins, there isn't enough focus in our society on how it continues. Combining Rabih and Kirsten's fictional story with his own insights and commentary on their relationship, De Botton proposes that "enlightened romantic pessimism" is a healthier and more realistic alternative to Romanticism, the latter of which gives us unrealistic expectations of relationships and sets us up for inevitable failure. There's no "right person," suggests De Botton, and in each and every longterm relationship we are doomed to encounter a variety of suffering and unfulfillment; therefore, committing to another person is akin to saying, "I've surveyed the different options for unhappiness, and it is to you I am choosing to bind myself." Whether readers find this depressing or comforting will likely vary. (For me, it was the latter.) Much like De Botton's first novel, many of the insights he provides in The Course of Love are accurate to the point of discomfort. It's not easy to identify with his propositions, yet there is universal truth to them, and there's something distinctly comforting in that. It's always special to read a book -- particularly a work of fiction -- and feel as if the writer is communicating truths about yourself that you've never been able to adequately acknowledge, let alone convey. As a fan of both philosophy and fiction, I find great satisfaction in De Botton's ability to translate profound ideas and insights into accessible and entertaining prose. The Course of Love is a captivating read, but seems as if it would be especially meaningful for individuals in the beginning phases of longterm commitment.

A aquisição de livro no mercado internacional é possível, sim. Um livro de muita qualidade.

Muy buen libro. No me gusto que no venia en buen estado.