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The actor and novelist answers this eternal question twelve ways, in stories that explore our most complicated emotion
This is a winning collection from an author writing on his favorite topic: love. Each emotionally involving story illuminates a different kind of love: star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited, even comical. Gene Wilder's protagonists will be instantly recognizable to his fans: men and women who stumble into relationships that can fulfill them or knock them out cold. Which one it will be depends, often, on the smallest of gestures or reactions. What Is This Thing Called Love includes the stories:
• "In Love for the First Time," about a lover so shy and studious that he's a "funny duck" who has to be led by the hand by his equally inexperienced girlfriend
• "About Being in Love," featuring coarse but charming Buddy Silverman, who yearns for connection but looks for it in exactly the wrong kind of woman
• "The Woman in the Red Hat," who shows a writer who has only explored love in his books what the real thing feels like.
ASIN : B003DX0I3U
Publisher : St. Martin's Press; First edition (March 30, 2010)
Publication date : March 30, 2010
Language : English
File size : 4009 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 173 pages
Reviewer: John Pacheco
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: cute entertaining stories
Review: the individual stories not related were cute and told a nice story within each chapter about love in so many different dimensions that it could be delivered by.
Reviewer: pure1magination
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Heartwarming
Review: First off, I love Gene Wilder. He is so kind and gentle and honest. He is definitely one of my heroes. As such, I may be a little biased in this review.This is not a perfect book. These are not perfect stories. But they are heartwarming, and delicately told, and they always put a smile on my face. This is a book that I have read again and again, and will be re-reading in the future. I can hear Gene Wilder's soothing voice as I read, and sometimes, it's almost as though he's right there, telling me the story. I love that so much of his voice comes out in his writing style.If you love a simplistic style, or the many facets of love, or even if you just love Gene Wilder (as much as I do), you will enjoy this book.
Reviewer: r k
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love
Review: I got this book because I thought it would have stories of Gene Wilderâs love life, but it seems to be more about other peoples love Lives. Iâm only halfway through. I hope I read some about him and Gilda. I know they were very much in love.
Reviewer: Brian Scott Mednick
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wilder at Heart
Review: I think it is something of a crime that Gene Wilder has retired from acting. I know there aren't many leading roles for a guy in his mid 70s with a face like his, but there's still no reason he can't take a supporting part here or there. These days, Wilder is happy just spending his days at home in Connecticut with his wife Karen, painting watercolors, listening to classical music, surfing the Web, and watching old movies on TV. He spends most of his mornings and afternoons writing. Since publishing his memoir in 2005, Wilder has turned out one book almost every other year.Gene Wilder's latest musings on love, sex, and romance is a collection of twelve short stories entitled "What Is This Thing Called Love?" Not every story is a winner but three or four are outstanding, a few are very good, and a few just really don't amount to much. But as a whole, it is a breezy, entertaining diversion.Wilder writes three stories about his late cousin Buddy Silberman, a nice guy who was always looking for love but ultimately just settled for sex. The opening story, "The Birthday," is probably the best one in the book as we meet the bubbly Buddy, whose gregarious personality is a mask for his own physical insecurities."The Kiss" is a charming story about a poor young man who falls in love with a girl a few years his junior, only to have his heart broken when she runs off with someone else. The friendship he develops with the girl's equally upset father is beautifully written. The last story, "Passion," is a moving account of a chauffeur falling in love with an unusual Czech artist he has been hired to drive from her home in Connecticut to an art gallery in New York City.For readers not familiar with Gene Wilder's background or personal life, the stories will be nonetheless enjoyable. For me, who spent fifteen years writing a biography of Wilder, I found a lot of things in the book particularly poignant and interesting. He uses his mother's maiden name for his hero in "Passion." He sets several of the stories in his hometown of Milwaukee. Most bizarre, though, is a story called "The Anniversary," in which he uses the actual date he and his wife Karen married, describes the wife in the story exactly as Karen looks, and then goes for a really morbid ending.Like Wilder's two previous novellas - "My French Whore" and "The Woman Who Wouldn't" - this book, like Wilder himself, is gentle, quirky, and hard not to like. While I know I am not alone in wishing Wilder was spending his time in front of the camera, we should be thankful that at least he's still entertaining us with the written word.
Reviewer: W L
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lovely
Review: A sweet book about short love stories by one of Americaâs most beloved actors. Each story makes you think of a love shared by you or maybe someone you know. Touching
Reviewer: Mommuh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Little Clues
Review: For the record, this review is biased, as the book is penned by Gene Wilder, my secret celebrity crush. Regardless of what you may think of the stories themselves, there seems to be a fair amount of reference to events, people, places and things within the authors own life. This in itself is worth the 5-star rating to me, as it was a nice game to play while reading through the vignettes; picking out the clues in each story which parallel with Gene's own story. The stories themselves seem a bit naive, sometimes bordering on old fashioned sensibilities, and occasionally quite predictable. I would not be surprised to find that some of the shorts were actually written in the early 70's. That said, it is a refreshing and easy read to spend a quiet weekend afternoon getting to know the voice of the actor become author.
Reviewer: K. Kussro
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sweet little book full of short stories
Review: You can hear Gene Wilderâs voice as you read book.
Reviewer: Brandon H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Book Review
Review: Itâs for anyone who is a Gene Wilder Fan.Itâs mixed with short fun loving stories and heartbreak straight to the point and simple.I just ordered another Gene Wilder Romance Novel since Iâm nearly finished the entire book in 3 days.
Reviewer: RiGye
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Another lovely Book written by Gene!
Reviewer: Joseph
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent book by Mr Wilder.
Reviewer: keith Robison
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A series of short but funny love stories. A bit of a departure from Gene Wilder's usual books, by being a collection rather than one story, but still has all his usual hallmarks & humour.
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