Most satisfying Love story

She does my head in too Tony. I will plump for Written on the Body, because nothing else quite gets the cut and wrack of being in love with someone and missing them and not having them so well. It also has a wonderful texture and playfulness with language. Trust me, I'm telling you stories, as the author says elsewhere.

It all depends how you define 'love story'. Is Emma by Jane Austen a love story, is Romeo and Juliet? If so, then they would be my favourites!

Romeo and Juliet......definitely Emma.......not so sure. Isn't it too preachy to be a love story?

Satisfying is the trickiest word. Do we mean fulfilled and therefore a happy ending, where two lovers tango into a cliched sunset? Oddly enough, the most powerful and haunting love stories are the ones in which the protagonists act badly, treat each other cruelly and end up dead or parted forever. I love Return Of The Native, Wuthering Heights and despite being a very poor film, Endless Love was an extremely good book. The Plague Dogs is a peculiar love story of sorts, of a dog for his master...I don't think that it has to be between girl and boy....

in that case then wolfie, i'll lump for dr. zhivago..... the most satisfying day long sob i ever had....

Love story? erm.... 'Maurice' by EM Forster

Yes, I nearly mentioned that one...the fact that they never get to meet again is heartbreaking..

I rarely read a novel more than once, it has to be very good to read it twice, a hallowed few have been read more, but the one I've read the most is Pride and Prejudice, by far the most satisfying romance ever written and I don't like romances in general.

Yea - now Emily has left us for distant waters I can rant on and on about Jane Austen. Emma is the one for me but Pride and Prejudice runs it a close second. The best stories ever written. Every word is closed, caged and condensed - just like the society she protrays. The rhythms of the novels, the cadences - oh she does my head in!

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