![]() ![]() Perhaps the only encouraging thing about Oliver's Story is that one can slog though it in about three hours. Oliver's life as a widower simply is not interesting enough to fill that many pages. ![]() His style is exactly the same as in Love Story, but the sequel has neither the wit nor the brevity that made Love Story the dubious achievement that it was. The problem is that Segal cannot make the same trick work twice. Oliver's Story (note the original title) takes its rightful place on a literary scale with its inconsequential predecessor, but it weighs in at a whopping 264 pages, more than twice as long as Love Story. Oliver's Story is selling like hotcakes, and Rona Barrett is probably spreading rumors about how much Ryan O'Neal wants for the inevitable film version. But for all his insipid sentimentality about Harvard and his nauseatingly self-conscious style, Segal is no fool. ![]() Apparently unsatisfied with Love Story, the classic mawkish, lightweight novel, Segal has unloaded a sequel. I, for one, would be happy to gratify that wish. ONE CAN ONLY assume that Erich Segal's goal in life is to be dipped in bronze and mounted somewhere on the Harvard campus. ![]()
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