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I'm going to go into this review as if the possible upcoming reader of this novel has never seen the movie, with Brooke Shields. It begins with a young man, David, standing longingly outside his girlfriend, Jade's house. They were both in their mid-teens & their relationship had gotten blatantly sexual & as the father noticed, quite obsessive. David has not only enveloped Jade but her mom, dad & two brothers as well & made them all his family, rarely going home to his own. The more time that goes by in this relationship, the more certain members of Jade's family recognizes the symptoms of a consuming sickness! Jade's father bans David from their home for 30 days, I believe, in an attempt to cool their romance; however, David lacks serious self confidence that the love between them can go the distance & as every day goes by in this exile, David gets inceasingly frantic & unbalanced with devastating results! The book is written in David's first person narrative & you can feel his torment as time passes & he commits a terrible crime in an absurd idea of getting to see the family again, especially Jade! What follows is years & years of obsessively waiting to get out of the mental hospital & scheming to worm his way back into this family's life once again, as soon as he can find them! The whole book gave me such ambivalent feelings; from one feeling to the next. One chapter reminded me of the powerfully sexual passion of adolescent love, another would disturb me with David's overly pervasiveness into their lives. His own parents were slightly dysfunctional but the Butterfields, Jade's family, slowly emerge as an eventual train wreck! Occasionally as I was reading, I would sometimes think that this novel could be classified as a horror story but there are no real monsters. One time you think this will be a happily-ever-after, the next, it can only come to a terrible, tragic end. Scott Spencer has the gift of describing those few, if any, amazing love affairs that begin as your destiny but sometimes turn to disaster!


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Endless Love Scott Spencer 9780880016285 Books Reviews

I wanted to LOVE this book, I really did. It started out interesting and then it lost me. It was too long, there were too many side stories thrown into the book that didn't need to be there. I saw the movie previews, looked amazing and bought the book the same day. If the movie is anything like the book, not sure I want to pay money and see it. I found myself skipping a lot of the text in the actual book itself to just try to get to the end of it so I could find out what happens. No one in this book is a normal character, not very believable. Davis is so obsessed with the Butterfield family he is willing to risk his entire future to be near them (and he does.) But really no one in that family could be called normal either. Where I come from, if a person tries to burn down your house, you don't give him the time of day! And then the whole thing of Hugh Butterfield running into the streets to track David down and getting killed by a car?? Just a bit dramatic for me. But I guess we needed Hugh to live so we could then complete the rest of the book as it would not work if he was still living. I just wanted more from it and more actual love and not obsession and mental illness. Feel let down. Its like on Christmas morning when you think you got a great gift and it turns out to be socks!
If you've only seen the awful Brooke Shields movie or heard the great Lionel Ritchie/Diana Ross song, you owe it to yourself to read this book, which is a dark and compulsive read about obsessive love that features one of the great, complicated narrators in American writing.
very good, I loved it all. strange characters, weird mother
The book has a much more convoluted plot than the movie, and it was pretty interesting. The author was understandably unhappy with what Hollywood did to his novel.
A weird, weird book. Young, confused, obsessed and probably mentally deranged man pursues his girlfriend till they wind up in an unbelievably gross and extreme situation...and you thought he was nuts when he burned down her house...that ain't nuthin' compared to what happens at the end. They made a movie out of this, which is nothing like the book. NOTHING is like the book. That's a fact, Jack.
Scott Spencer! What a genius way with words and narrative he’s got—and this book is a modern classic that finds its perfect pitch with the first sentence and doesn’t let go. It’s a tale of obsessive first love. Lucious turns of phrase. Every page or so, I found myself muttering “beautiful” to the amusement of anyone within earshot. I’m a little distressed to have finished it, frankly, knowing nothing I read anytime soon will measure up.
The title seemed so corny I intended to read only the first paragraph to mock how bad it would have to be. That first paragraph sucked me into a world with which I was all too familiar. Scott Spencer is a masterful writer. His take on human emotions and their effect on sanity and rational behavior makes this book irrepressible. I finished it the first day I picked it up. It is one of those books, few and far between, that swallowed my life until I completed it. Beautifully plotted, with characters well-rounded, complex and and in stark contrast to each other, Endless Love is a near perfect exploration of the raving passions of youth. The movie from the 1980s made from it does no justice to the psychological depth of the novel nor to its profound cautionary ending.
I'm going to go into this review as if the possible upcoming reader of this novel has never seen the movie, with Brooke Shields. It begins with a young man, David, standing longingly outside his girlfriend, Jade's house. They were both in their mid-teens & their relationship had gotten blatantly sexual & as the father noticed, quite obsessive. David has not only enveloped Jade but her mom, dad & two brothers as well & made them all his family, rarely going home to his own. The more time that goes by in this relationship, the more certain members of Jade's family recognizes the symptoms of a consuming sickness! Jade's father bans David from their home for 30 days, I believe, in an attempt to cool their romance; however, David lacks serious self confidence that the love between them can go the distance & as every day goes by in this exile, David gets inceasingly frantic & unbalanced with devastating results! The book is written in David's first person narrative & you can feel his torment as time passes & he commits a terrible crime in an absurd idea of getting to see the family again, especially Jade! What follows is years & years of obsessively waiting to get out of the mental hospital & scheming to worm his way back into this family's life once again, as soon as he can find them! The whole book gave me such ambivalent feelings; from one feeling to the next. One chapter reminded me of the powerfully sexual passion of adolescent love, another would disturb me with David's overly pervasiveness into their lives. His own parents were slightly dysfunctional but the Butterfields, Jade's family, slowly emerge as an eventual train wreck! Occasionally as I was reading, I would sometimes think that this novel could be classified as a horror story but there are no real monsters. One time you think this will be a happily-ever-after, the next, it can only come to a terrible, tragic end. Scott Spencer has the gift of describing those few, if any, amazing love affairs that begin as your destiny but sometimes turn to disaster!