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|title=Love Life
|author=Ray Kluun
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=256
|publisher=Pan
|date=April 2007
|isbn=978-0330447072
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0330447076</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=0330447076|aznus=<amazonus>0312366817</amazonus>
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Dan and Carmen seem to have everything. They both have their own successful companies, wealth, a great social life, wonderful holidays and Luna, their one-year-old daughter. Carmen has something else too.
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands and it's an option that Carmen has to consider and there's a lot about it that, as Dan says, you don't find out from the websites. I couldn't help but see how much control it leaves with the patient in a situation which must otherwise be terrifying.
I defy you not to cry when you read this book. I would imagine that it's just about impossible unless you have a heart of stone. ''Love Life'' has been compared to Erich Segal's [[''Love Story]] '' and both books have the same predictability but there's more to ''Love Life'' which lacks the saccharine sweetness and is more honest about reactions to terminal illness.
My thanks to the publishers for sending this book.
If you're interested in the way that people deal with terminal illness you might also like to read Louise Dean's [[Becoming Strangers]].
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= Honestly, I would have to read it to see if it's actually possible to like such an utter bastard (and that refers to the affair, NOT the casual sex).
Unless his wife knew and approved?
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|name=Sue
|verb=replied
|comment= I was surprised myself, Magda. I expected to hate him, but the story is told with a brutal honesty and no cloying self-justification. It brought home to me that whilst the patient in a terminal illness has got hold of the shitty end of the stick those around them have to find a way of coping with the situation too. Dan does and without giving too much away, he does it brilliantly.
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|name=marianne.bokma
|verb=said
|comment= Note from Holland. Just read Love Life. First you will hate Dan but at the end of it You'll Love Him.
A happy reader from Holland
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{{comment
|name=isolde73
|verb=said
|comment= I didn't like Dan at the end, but I did like the book. Read it and love it, I promise!
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{{comment
|name=lindafriday
|verb=said
|comment= if anyone's ever dealth with the gripping shit that is cancer, you'll realise this was the brutal honesty of love at its core..wept uncontrollably till the bitter end - brilliant!
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{{comment
|name=katypoly
|verb=said
|comment= this bookd touched me far more than a story of love by Segal. the last one I think is more suitable for scolars. but the love life is something real, something touching. the reality is the most important factor that made my cry. I was crying in the end. because it took me one evening to read a book, but the author lived in this hell for more than a year....
i admire his love of life! its he who loved life! in stead of running away, having better life than he had, he cleaned after her, looked at her dead eyes for more than a year...
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