The Love Secrets of Don Juan《My first love of English book》

I picked up this book from our library in accident. I actually intended to find another book. When it turned to be an impossible case I took my chance to look around and then I found this one.

The Love Secrets of Don Juan

I am not a student who like reading in an English way or in teachers’ expect way. I read just for fun.It’s a pity especially for an English major student I know that. And I feel ashamed for that. The problem is even myself can’t change this. No one could stop me from a book which I drank in even before my College Entrance Examination. And at the same time No one even myself can force me to finish one book when I really can’t enjoy the words. I am sorry for that always. I really want to read the books I really want to do what my teacher told me to do. And I want to learn more .It’s just not easy to change while one don’t know how to deal with herself. It should not be a task. I mean reading is such a beautiful and enjoyable thing in my life. I can’t help doing that just like a girl feel crazy for a destiny boy in her life.Girls always want their love go on with a bang rather than a whimper and I am trying to keep reading as a enyjoyable thing.When I am reading I am happy. Ok then when I am writing this I really feel a little (just a little) guilty because I myself realized it maybe just an excuse.

Anyway God came to save me---he brought me the book The Love Secrects of Don Juan.—my prince. When I first met “him” I didn’t pay much attention to him. As I have told you it not the book I am looking for.

But after I stood there and turned over some pages I thought maybe it can be a choice to have this book to kill time. Then OK I spend some hours with “him” and began to think “Oh my god he is so interesting. We have a lot in common and maybe I should regard him as my friend anyway he is so humorous. What happened then? I spent more time with him I listened to him and chatted with him. I laughted and pretended that I didn’t. You know it’s not good for a reserved girl to show her affection to a strang boy. He is humorous that’s good but not enough. I keep smile and looking him politely.

However as time going I feel more and more attracted by him. Yes he seems know women more than themselves. He seems know me more than myself. He seems know the world more than anyone I have known.And he is so smart no not smart he is sagacious. He knew how to talk to me how to make me understand him and agree with him. Oh my god I fell in love with him I fell in love with the “English guy”----just like I fell in love with the Chinese guys hundreds of time before.

Then of course I didn’t fall in love with the guy named Danial ‘Spike’ Savage in the book. You know his life is just a mess. He divorced and was forty-five years old. He had a lot of blind date and all failed with a disaster. He can’t make show his really love to his daughter. He got his best friend’s ex-girl fried at last of this book. It is not easy to love a man like this. Howeverhe tried to make sense of his life by writing a list in the case of the “love secrets” he had learned from his romantic history sharing his wisdom he had acquired along the way. See how he want to sell himself as he was a advertising copywriter.

StopDon’t read this yet.look at the other ads.

Then read this.

Those people are everything you fear. They like walks in the country they are sensitive they go to salsa lessons they are lost and they are lonely.

You are not like that. Neither am I.

I am 39 tall good-lookingdivorced creative love literature passion conversation. ER and Big Brother. Box No.706A.

Since he was 45 it would not be true that he said he was39. But”everything in the shop always is $4.99$9.66 even $19.99.” and they got their reason and logic.Because all the buyer sees is that the product is not $5$9and$20.”(by the way I specially turned to the back of the book to check the price and it was$6.99). Actually he lied all about himself except his divorce.

Worsestill he also played with me. He maked a romantic picture which naturely made me have no doubt. And then he said “none of this is true”. The boy annoied me!

And he said “you can learn all the lessons in the world but they aren’t going to do any good if you never get a chance to sit the test.” How can he dare to say this just before my final exam? That really make me angry ! So you see I did not fall in love with the middle aged-divorced-unhonest-mess(I learnt this kind of style from his word anyway) man.

I fell love with the man who write the book---Tim Lott winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award.he was born in 1956 in Southhall and once worked as a pop music journalist a publisher and an entrepreneur. And he also got a degree in history and politics. And he is devorcedhas three daughters and lives in north-west London. If you have met him you will shout like me： He is amazing! How can an author write a book in this way?

In a way I like so much.

I thought for many times why I like this book so much. And at last I got it.

Because these words are so simple.

I am not a hardworking student and I am afraid of long word and long-long sentence. But this book it is a monolog. Just like Danny the chatter showed his life pictures to you and explained what and how them produced. He wouldn’t give you a long or fat paragraph to describe how the sky looks like and what the wind and clouds mean to the plot. I am extremely fed up with that. I want to somebody talk to me joke with me and make me laugh. Tim Lott did it suceessfully. The book in some ways is all about emotion. And the words are used to describe the straight feeling or react. every single word is so simple and normal but when they standing in a line and turn to be a sentence and then to be a chapter and finally to a book. It became more interesting and fun. I can’t give you an example because all this book is organized in this way. That makes me can’t make a choice. But I really willing to show you another interesting thing to make up the pity.

Problem:Mother---withheld affection.

Result: Fall in love too quickly. Constant disappointment. Anger.

Solution:Be cooler---less needy.Abandon search for unconditional love.

Problem: women full of impossible contradicions.

Result:Bewilderment.MisunderstandingAnger.

Solution: Not known.Complicated by fact that you are also full of impossible contradictions.

This is how he put the “love secrects”out. And how he deal with the problem he had met in his life. And in a similar way he ***yzed why women can make friends more close and easier than men”point one…，point two…point three…” I know they are not big create but it absolutely surprise to me. And that is part of what I said “the simple”words. Here what I got not the single words but the single meaning. I can get the author’s meaning quickly and that means a lot trust me. When I know what he was saying I am thinking about whether it is right or not how it came to this what would happen in this case. I put my own thought in and curious how it would end up. What more there are many dialogs in the book and from that I can figure out the characters more easily and clearly.

You know what I thougt I should introduce some profound thing about the book. you know I really appreciate Danny’s understanding of women and impressed by his love to his daughter. And I also thought it is fantastic when he talked about his best friends---Carol Moon and Martin. He is an observer and thinker of life. I can pick some words out to show you why he regard women as nightmare and what kinds of people Carol and Mark are. I also could explain why women like to push men who they loved. A lot of things I can do though I am not a woman and I can just image a woman in a marriage life but that is enough. As I have said Tim Lott is amazing. But I don’t prefer to talk about what I have got from the middle-aged man. I just want to introduce this wonderful book to you as I have done to my other friends.

You see I lied I like the guy in and out the book. Danny and Tim is the same person in my mind actually. And I lied just like Danny. Yeh I have learnt a lot from him and this is one of that.

In fact it is my first English book which I read from the first word to the last one. I prefer this more than those “profound meaning of the novel”. The most important thing is I enjoy this book and this reading.

Just like Danny said at last of this book:

Happy endings are real. I’m going to make them happen. Why not? I’m the omniscient narrator goddamn it. I can do what I like.

There is a God. And it’s me!

Isn’t it a wonderful thing? When the girl met her prince and live a happy life with him when Danny got his Alice and prepared for their first child when I met Tim Lott and changed my view of those “English guys” and try to love more in my later life?

So this is my first love experience with an English “guy”----The love Secrets of Don Juan.