“A powerful and gripping story about 4 days in the lifetime of two people unlikely to meet but for fate. Superbly played by Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in the movie, Rachmaninof in the score was sweet and haunting. Both the book and movie lived up to my expectations. Quite a gem that can move you to the core.
Browsing through others' opinions I ran (as expected) across some deprecating comments, is it a tearjerker? Yes, no doubt.
Sentimental and for softies, one can say that too.
However, when one has gone through life long enough and experienced the gamut of emotions, come face to face with serendipity, has learned first-hand how immensely powerful emotions can surface and the struggle you go through in dealing with them, only then can one fully understand and thus appreciate the story and writer. It is like one will never fully comprehend how much you love someone (or something) until you have lost it.
It is also likely that the events portrayed hit close to home and stir emotions conflicting with a preset value system, manifesting in dislike, rejection,denial.
Read it at leisure, keep the book if it doesn't touch you and give it another shot much,much later. Your response may be revealing to you. In any case it won't be to late to pass it on to some softie and make his or her day (am an Eastwood fan too after all)”
KingConan wrote this review Tuesday, October 16, 2007.
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