Wedding, The/Unabridged

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Summary: The Wedding By: Nicholas Sparks
Review: Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors and I was very excited to find that he came out with a sequal to "The Notebook". The beginning of this novel was hard to get into, but as it went on it got better and better. This novel uses irony and creates many vivd images for the reader. Wilson, the protagonist, creates images of how many people may live their lives now. I believe this book was able to give advice to many married couples because being married and committed to someone can be hard. Anyone may forget their anniversary, but in the novel "The Wedding," Wilson forgot his anniversary and Jane became depressed and upset. Wilson then realizes that he loves her so much and is going to have to do something to win her love back. Throughout the novel irony is used of how Wilson and Jane got together and their marriage. It seems as though the same things are happening to them as they did to Noah and Aliie in "The Notebook".Sparks really knows how to get the readers attention and change their emotions throughout the story. Sparks uses serious, detailed facts, but he also uses humorous and exciting emotions. ALthough many people may think that all of his stories tell the same thing, I believe that each one gives a different and effective message. Love is love, and in this novel, love is expressed throughtout the entire story. Wilson loves her and surprises her with a special something to show her how much he loves her. With struggles, ups, downs, and so many other characteristics of marriage, this novel illustrates how tough marriage is, but anyone can get through it if you really love eachother.

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Summary: If you are married, then you will love this book...
Review: Of course I am not married, but that is beside the point. I read The Wedding, and I have to say it was touching. It is the sequel The Notebook (which I really loved), and it is about a married couple (I can't remember the names because I read it last year), and their marriage is going down the drain, so now one of their daughters Anna is getting married, so now as they get the wedding plans together, their relationship is getting better as they get their plans together. They start to talk more and they start to fall in love again. The husband then talks to Noah (if you read The Notebook, then you know how I am talking about), for advice because he was married to his wife for 50 years until she died. So now he spends his time spending with the swans believeing that his wife was reincarating as one of the swans. So now as the wedding time comes down, then the real surprise happens. The ending is beautiful (and for a guy) this brought me to tears because the ending felt so real and so full of hope. If you are a guy reading this, and if you have a girlfriend, read this novel to her or A Walk To Remember. Trust me, you are going to have a good time reading this book to the one you truly love.

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Summary: Anyone who is married needs to read this book!
Review: Now I remember why I love Nicholas Sparks books. This is a great heartwarming story of a married man who has been married to his wife for almost 30 years. He forgets their 29th anniversery and the story proceeds to describe how he makes up for it in the mist of the preparation for his daughters wedding. His father-in-law plays a role in this story as well. "Noah", happens to be one of the characters in "The Notebook", by the way.
This is a very uplifting novel. A must read!!

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Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: The Notebook was a wonderfully romantic book, but this - The Wedding - is uninvolving and repetitive. This is supposed to be a contiunation of The Notebook and follows the story of Jane and Wilson; Jane is the daughter of Noah and Allie from The Notebook. Wilson and Jane have drifted apart from one another during the course of thier 30 year marriage, and this is Wilson's story of how he gains redemption for his misdeeds all those years. The characters are flat, the dialogue is repetitive, and I felt like I was reading the same chapter from beginning to end. Every chapter is almost identical to the one before it (in terms of words and descriptions), and I found this book to be boring and badly written. There is no depth here, and the writing is as if someone is speaking to you all the time. For instance, "I got up. I went out. I went to the store. I felt happy. Then I did this..." It is pretty childish writing and a very flat story.

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Summary: NOT HIS BEST BOOK
Review: I HAVE READ ALL OF NICHOLAS SPARKS' BOOKS. I USUALLY READ HIS BOOKS IN ONE DAY BECAUSE I CAN'T PUT THEM DOWN. THIS ONE IS ANOTHER STORY. I HAVE BEEN READING IT SLOWLY FOR A WEEK AND CAN'T GET INTO IT. VERY DISAPPOINTED.

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Summary: The Wedding was a beautiful Story!
Review: Nicholas Sparks outdid himself in this book. You should probably read the Notebook first to understand a lot of the background. But the twist in the end was so unexpected, but so wonderful! Anyone who likes Nicholas Sparks will LOVE this read! I really fell in love with the characters. There should be more men in the world like Wilson!!

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Summary: Predictable but ...........
Review: Although this book may be predictable, it was a pleasure to read, like all of Nicholas Sparks' books. When I am fortunate enough to get time out to read I enjoy the simple heart warming stories of Nicholas Sparks. We all need a diversion from the stresses of day to day life I find I can get involved enough to forget some of the life's daily problems. This is what his books are about. Taking time out! If you pick up one thing you could do to make life better for yourself or someone else you have only enriched your life. Look for his words of wisdom within the story.

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Summary: A bad self-help book for warped marriages
Review: The writing is atrocious from the acknowledgments to the prologue to the opening chapters. Sparks lacks style and substance. I have disliked some bestsellers before, but I can't remember any with fewer saving graces then this one.This tome can only seem exciting to the personality-disabled.

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Summary: Incredibly Romantic
Review: This book was the most romantic I've ever read. Basically, the book is about a man who forgets his 29th wedding anniversary, and has his first realization that he has made a mistake in his marriage of not showing his wife his love. He starts to wonder how she really feels about him. After reading this book, I suddenly felt compelled to start doing things for my husband that I haven't done in a long time. When he came home that afternoon after work, our bedroom and bathroom were spotlessly clean (usually the last place to be so), and candles were lit. I will also say that a friend of mine read it and recounted parts to her husband and was pleasantly surprised with a wonderfully romantic Valentine's Day this year (from a normally unromantic kind of guy). Read it. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Terrible
Review: This review is for people who have never read N. Sparks before. Beware, he writes books of the same quality that Kinkade paints pictures. If you like the stuff, go ahead. His books have the feel of a product after exentsive market research into what a women of the age group 35 and up, married and with some income would like to read. It is soppy, overly sweet, with little understanding what a longterm relationship is really all about (the author cannot be older than 35 himself). This is what I expect to read in a romance novel that is devoid of sexual references. Save your money and time.