The One That Got Away: The Kind of Love You Never Recover from

by Lee Robert Schreiber and Robert Lee Schreiber

Book Overview

Have you ever wondered what happened to the first, the truest and/or the greatest love of your life? Have you ever considered how that person would respond if and when you contacted him/her? Lee Robert Schreiber did just that, and this is his poignant, often hilarious and absolutely true story.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566252431
• ISBN13: 9781566252430
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Hurts So Good

Compelling reading for the romantic-masochist in us all. Brilliant format, breathless style and for better or worse - a book that will get you thinking. Thank you Schreiber for having the nerve.

Food For thought!

I suppose all of us from time to time take a moment and think about our first love and wonder what they are doing, what would it have been like if we never broke up and is there still feelings there. In this work our author takes this one step further and contacts his. What do you think happens? Would you be bold enough to do the same, and is that a wise move to make for any of us? I believe our author found more than he bargained for. As our author takes this quest he also shares with the reader his self-examination as he struggles for answers to many whys in his past and his present. He finds out some things about himself as well. We learn he at times is rude, perhaps will not commit, is competitive and he realizes the importance of his fathers presence after his death. This is a work of the past, touching the present and influencing the future. A different work, one that will perhaps stir emotions in you that you didn't even realize were there. A story of life, loss, searching and finding and ultimately understanding life must take its course with each one of us and will have its way.

Something for Everyone

Go ahead, admit it. Lee Schreiber isn't the only one to have wondered about, even obsessed about, a past love, or maybe even the first love, the one from which one never fully recovers. We've all thought about it, imagined what would happen if we sought them out, maybe even tried to contact them. In "The One That Got Away", Mr. Schreiber has gone one step further and written a funny, touching, insightful book about, among other things, his attempt to contact his first love, whom he has not been in touch with for 25 years, and how she responds. Although a good portion of the book is devoted to his past relationship with her, Mr. Schreiber also weaves other important aspects of his present life into this story: music (readers may find themselves humming or even singing a few bars out loud), his passion for the game of poker, his close and diverse circle of friends (they all have different opinions of what he is about to do and what will result) and, last but surely not least, his family (one of the most memorable chapters of the book include Mr. Schreiber throwing a ball up in the air to amuse his 5-year old nephew). This wonderful book has a little bit of something for everyone. I, for one, hope that we see more from Mr. Schreiber.

The One That Got Away

The New York Times Science section, sometime ago, had an article addressing how many people (male and female) are boldly connecting with a past love. The Internet appears to have fueled this effort with dozens of web sites having been created to help people (a lot of married people have signed up for these, which says a lot about marriage) find a once (and possibly still) loved classmate or friend. Lee Schreiber in his recently published book The One That Got Away writes of his own experience in seeking out a past love, a "soul mate" if you will, and what motivated him to do so. Mr. Schreiber never married. He begins to wonder if his problem of not being able to fall "truly, madly, deeply" for a woman might have its roots in a woman whom he had fallen for some 25 years before, in college. He decides that it is time to find out. He locates her and writes to her, asking if she would meet with him. He constructs a list of questions to ask her: "Does she ever think about me and if she does, when and how often?" , "If I think she is my soul mate, as I do and continue to believe, does she think of me the same way?" , "Can I be attracted to a woman, now 25 years older, as much as I was when we first dated?" Mr. Schreiber sets the reader up at the beginning to wonder if she will respond and, if she does respond, will it be by telling him to get lost or will she meet with him, and maybe, just maybe, realize she still loves him, and, if he finds her married, will she leave her husband and children to live happily ever after with him. If this was all this book was about, it would still be a very good read. But there is much more here. We learn much about the writer through his own self-examination that causes us, the reader, to question his original premise. It seems Mr. Schreiber is extraordinarily competitive (even with his girlfriends). He can be rude, overly opinionated, arrogant, and has a strong belief he knows more than most on topics like music and writing. And maybe this has a considerable amount to do with his inability to achieve a lasting relationship. But there are many subtleties at play in this book. While Mr. Schreiber may be a bit overbearing at times he is always genuine and open to criticism (even if he doesn't agree with it). He even allows himself to be influenced by those whose opinions he trusts. We also learn that reaching out to someone you have had no contact with for decades is not an easy thing. And while Mr. Schreiber doesn't say this specifically, it is clear that the recent loss of his father emboldens him. His path of self discovery takes an unalterable course, with its own momentum and without any hope of him returning unchanged. As I read on, I couldn't help thinking of the great quote of Goethe, "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas an

Everyones got one masterpiece in them

Thats what they say. It's just that some of us don't get it onto paper.The author has a written a book within a book that is so poignant that it both hurts and exhilerates as the book arcs and swerves. It's something we've all lived thru; the aching heartbreak of the first true love. We all wonder "what if..."and play it out out in our heads, never to know for certain. Here's closure for us all. Lee Schreiber bares his soul, risks it all and tells the true story of whether you can actually go home again a generation later