Helpful Score: 1
The Lost Diary of Don Juan is historical fiction of the most fun sort. You've got drama, sword-fighting, jealousy, revenge, romance (it IS Don Juan after all!) and true love, all wrapped up in a neat little 290-page package.
According to an interview in the Book Movement newsletter Abrams idea for this novel came to him one evening: "One night I went to bed asking myself a question that I believe every married man or woman asks eventually: How could I stay happily and passionately married to my wife for the rest of my life? The next morning I awoke as if I had been shaken. It was then that I first thought of Don Juan, the universal symbol of passion. What if he had kept a diary? What secrets would it contain? What could we learn from him about the nature of love and passion? And ultimately what might cause the world's greatest seducer to forsake all women for one woman?"
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On the whole I quite enjoyed this book. It's not the best book ever written, but for me it was the perfect brief escape from the stress of my life at the moment.
According to an interview in the Book Movement newsletter Abrams idea for this novel came to him one evening: "One night I went to bed asking myself a question that I believe every married man or woman asks eventually: How could I stay happily and passionately married to my wife for the rest of my life? The next morning I awoke as if I had been shaken. It was then that I first thought of Don Juan, the universal symbol of passion. What if he had kept a diary? What secrets would it contain? What could we learn from him about the nature of love and passion? And ultimately what might cause the world's greatest seducer to forsake all women for one woman?"
(To read the remainder of this review visit my blog by clicking here.)
On the whole I quite enjoyed this book. It's not the best book ever written, but for me it was the perfect brief escape from the stress of my life at the moment.
