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Random Acts of Heroic Love by: Danny Scheinmann

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Publisher: Black Swan
Release date: 1st January, 2008
Media: Paperback

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Rating: - A really lovely read

This isn't a work of high literature, but it is a beautiful story (or more accurately 2 stories), which sticks in my mind more than a year after reading it.

Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic. If you want an easy read that will tug at your heart strings, I recommend it.

Rating: - Definitely not a romantic story

Don't read this book while eating.

The two stories that run through the book are both about love, but neither of them is gentle with the reader, and there are several passages that are truly horrific. (Violent death occurs more than once. The author leaves nothing to the imagination).

The stories are based on truth, and the writing has the feel of honesty about it. If you need to put your own troubles into perspective, then this book will help, but it is not a comfortable read. It left me feeling depressed at how low most of humanity will go when pushed to the extreme.

Rating: - waste of time and money

I was excited about reading this book having read all the reviews on Amazon. The blurb on the back of the book talks about the 'stunning climax' at the end when two lives intertwine. The 'stunning climax' may possibly be the biggest dissapointment EVER. The story does not grip the reader and is not particularly well written. The pace is slow and I wouldn't be surprised if most people gave up after the opening chapters. DON'T PERSEVERE with it like other reviewers suggest. It's just time that you won't get back.

Normally I don't write reviews ever but this time I felt compelled to if only just to warn other people from wasting their time and money...if you're still desperate to read this you can have mine for free!!

Rating: - Love it or Loathe it? I loathed it

Reviewers here fall into two camps. Some found it brilliant. Others thought is badly written and woodenly characterised. I'm with the latter. I gave up after a hundred pages. But if you like detailed descriptions of mangled bodies, autopsies and embalmings, you will probably enjoy this. It's a kind of Good Morgue Guide.

Rating: - True love conquers all

Random Acts of Heroic Love

Leo and his girlfriend Eleni take time out to travel. A bus crash in South America kills Eleni, and the book starts with Leo's raw emotion after her death. From page one you are caught up in the horrors of losing a loved one, the craziness that takes over thoughts and deeds, the inability to cope adequately or appropriately with the world around you.

When I realised that the author had indeed lost his girlfriend as a young man, I hoped the experience of writing this book, over several years, had been a cathartic experience rather than plunging him back into the depths of grief and depression.

Another story is interwoven with the Leo and Eleni story.

Moritz's experiences as a prisoner of war, then escapee, then walking across Russia and Europe to get back to a young girl he had kissed, but barely knew, brought out the need for hope in order to survive what most of us would think unsurvivable, even when that hope seemed ill founded.

This made me cry, in Starbucks - so don't read this in public. But do please read it. Probably the best book I have read in a long time.

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