Talk:Love You Forever

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[edit] Controversy?

Why no discussion of how creepy the book is? I've had discussions with many people about this, concluding that it's not actually children's literature but adult literature masquerading. The cover, featuring a baby making a general mess, is not how any child sees him/herself; the closest to this are stories about problematic younger siblings and dealing with them. In this book the self-identification is exclusively with the adults, the children always being an "other," something that would place it firmly outside the realm of literature for children. For it to be marketed as children's literature, and read to children, is to give them something beyond their ken. Add to that the fact that the mother obsesses with the boy, even to the highly disturbing point where, after he's married, she climbs up a ladder to his bedroom late at night and takes him out of the bed he shares with his wife to hold him while he's unconscious. This point was where I found the book frightening and potentially damaging, rather than simply wrongly-classified. I know this is more a review than a comment, but the fact that on Amazon.com a full 17% of the reviews gave it one star, the lowest possible rating, speaks to this. Describing it in wholly positive terms seems false. The preceding unsigned comment was by 15:03, 25 July 2007 66.184.234.170

You would have to find a published source, such as a published book review, that made such comments. This looks like a respectable source: [1]

On his official website it's clear that the second line of the verse says "like", not "love". --Coppertwig (talk) 22:21, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

"The Giving Tree" and "Love You Forever" are the most awful, depressing books ever made. The Giving Tree just made me feel really guilty about how my parents had to do stuff for me, not to mention it was just depressing as hell. You might as well have just parked my 3 year old ass in front of a Holocaust documentary.

Love you forever just made me think about my parents dying and me having to fend for myself, that there would always be suffering and hard responsibility throughout my life. Seriously, I had nightmares about my parents dying from this one. I know I'm not the only one, whenever I bring this up, I get a few people who had the same reaction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.74.196.111 (talk) 06:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)