Yesterday on the Judith Regan show, she had the authors of a new book called "Much Ado About Loving:Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals
If you're a book lover and that title doesn't grab you? I don't know what will. Though I do think the cover sucks, so I bought it on my Kindle. All that great literature and you give us that for a cover? THe pub should be ashamed, quite frankly. Loving great literature as I do, I'm this book's primary market, and I wouldn't have touched that book in a bookstore. If I hadn't heard the authors on Judith Regan, I would have passed it right up.
So the authors were comparing people's love lives to that of great literature. How can you not love that? If you're an Anna Karenina or a Madame Bovary? You have issues. (I'll say!)
Even more fun, they got into the real lives of Tolstoy and Dickens (they were complete dogs to their wives -- heinous, in fact) and the wonderment of how these men could create such rich, emotionally-sensitive books and in reality be such relational morons is a question for the times.
I suppose I'd be a Bathsheba Everdene from "Far from the Madding Crowd" -- which isn't all that great either. Bathsheba was a bit headstrong and didn't know what she needed/wanted. That's my story. What's your literary counterpart? Willing to share?
