The concept of the completely odd, yet powerful love story is one long lost in literature, or TV for that matter. The book Dangerous Liaisons by French novelist Pierre Ambrose Laclos is a perfect example of an odd love story mixed with tons of desire and seduction, and remains as one of my favorite pieces of literature ever written.
             Dangerous Liaisons was written in 1782 and caused quite a scandal in France because the book is about people of the upper class having "social sex" and doing whatever it takes to have sex with whoever it may be. Oddly enough, Pierre Laclos was doing the same thing, as he had impregnated several young women during the time he was writing this novel.
             The story takes place in the upper class neighborhoods of France and revolves around the two main characters, Marquise de Merteuil (Marquise) and Vicomte de Valmont (Valmont). Marquise is a loner, so to speak, and she refuses to let anyone judge her simply because of her social class, and we learn this at an early age. Early on, Marquise's husband dies and she sets out to make a reputation for herself by sleeping with whoever she wants, and she feels so remorse because she is not out for love, because she doesn't believe love exists. Throughout the story, we find that she is quite the letter writer, and has a knack for putting words in other people's mouths to screw with relationships, and eventually, it comes back to bite her in the ass.
             The other main character is Valmont. Valmont is a self proclaimed "player" and he is extremely good at it. He's a rich playboy who goes around looking for love, but like Marquise, he doesn't believe in it. He later meets and falls in love with Madame de Tourvel, who is married to a member of Parliament. He is a very smooth criminal, so to speak, because of his very cunning style of manipulation, and we become more and more aware of this as he seduces Madame de Tourvel.
             Madame de Tourvel is a very r...