A man can live alone if he shares his rooms with twenty other humans and shares his heart with none.
- Harold Robbins from "Never Love a Stranger"
I started this book "Never Love a Stranger" by Harold Robbins, based on some reviews on goodreads. Its a old one which was published in 1940+ if I am not wrong....and I wasn't sure if I would like it.. but never the less, I wanted a story to read and I started it.. But for some strange reason, I started liking it.. Its like watching a old classic movie which has some sort of warmth in it when you watch it.. May be its just that I am getting old or its just this phase of life, I am not sure.. but I really enjoyed reading it.
(Warning: contains spoilers)
This story is about a boy, who is all alone and how he manages to hold himself through the tough phases of his own life and that of the depression that happened in America during his life.. He is sort of a very complex and mixed personality... very alone (though not lonely for most of the times..), hard, calculative, selfish, instantaneous, wicked at times, and then he would do something which makes you feel that he is so soft at heart, nice even....and that all he wanted was to not get hurt anymore by anyone.. He was just. I really liked that character..Its all about him , Frankie, and his friends Marty, Jerry & Janet and his one true love, Ruth. How life comes a full circle for him... A very good read.. The kind of writing too.. the story starts with Frankie's birth and the it proceeds with interludes from his friends which sort of gives you a two track story proceeding in parallel and then joins when Frankie finally marries Ruth, after so so long a time.. (I had almost given up hope you know..) I guess at the time it was written, it must have been pretty new, this kind of interlude thing..
I had just one concern.. I never got to the reason of the title.. was it because Frankie, at all times, was a stranger to all of his friends, even though each of them thought they knew him well ? Whatever...I dont care anymore.. I liked him..and the book did make a very good read :)
- Harold Robbins from "Never Love a Stranger"
I started this book "Never Love a Stranger" by Harold Robbins, based on some reviews on goodreads. Its a old one which was published in 1940+ if I am not wrong....and I wasn't sure if I would like it.. but never the less, I wanted a story to read and I started it.. But for some strange reason, I started liking it.. Its like watching a old classic movie which has some sort of warmth in it when you watch it.. May be its just that I am getting old or its just this phase of life, I am not sure.. but I really enjoyed reading it.
(Warning: contains spoilers)
This story is about a boy, who is all alone and how he manages to hold himself through the tough phases of his own life and that of the depression that happened in America during his life.. He is sort of a very complex and mixed personality... very alone (though not lonely for most of the times..), hard, calculative, selfish, instantaneous, wicked at times, and then he would do something which makes you feel that he is so soft at heart, nice even....and that all he wanted was to not get hurt anymore by anyone.. He was just. I really liked that character..Its all about him , Frankie, and his friends Marty, Jerry & Janet and his one true love, Ruth. How life comes a full circle for him... A very good read.. The kind of writing too.. the story starts with Frankie's birth and the it proceeds with interludes from his friends which sort of gives you a two track story proceeding in parallel and then joins when Frankie finally marries Ruth, after so so long a time.. (I had almost given up hope you know..) I guess at the time it was written, it must have been pretty new, this kind of interlude thing..
I had just one concern.. I never got to the reason of the title.. was it because Frankie, at all times, was a stranger to all of his friends, even though each of them thought they knew him well ? Whatever...I dont care anymore.. I liked him..and the book did make a very good read :)
