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Summary: A great book
Review: This was a great tearjerker. The story starts as an older adult looking back on one of the greatest years of his life. The background of this love story is a community in a small town. The main character shares the story of the most loving and heartbreaking year of his life. He falls in love and loses it. This is one of the best books ever written and I will cherish it always.
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Summary: Few Sparks
Review: I read The Notebook several years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it to be a touching story of long love. Though A Walk to Remember was an easy, quick read, it was less than believable. The characters were superficial and I found it depressing as well as unlikely that Landon would have spent the rest of his life alone. I'd be reluctant to read another of Mr. Sparks' books.
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Summary: A Walk To Remember
Review: This book is very well written and is a fast read. The characters Jamie and Landon live in a small town. Landon has no date for the homecoming and his last resort is Jamie. Jamie is plain, shy girl and always keeps to her self. She warns Landon not to fall in love with her and Landon just thinks she is crazy. How could anyone fall in love with her? But Landons life is about to change for ever and a unleashed secret will make your heart weap. In this story Landon is a typical teenager. He is worried about his looks and how other people see him. Jamie is just the opposite with a father who is the town priest. She has come to learn the bible and carries it around everywhere. Jamie teaches Landon the true meanings of life and changed him to a person he would of never thought he could be. The story takes a unsuspected curve the will send your mind and heart on wild rollarcoaster.
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Summary: What a Moving Story
Review: Although it has been a few weeks since I have read Nicholas Sparks' novel, I have not forgotten any small detail. The story of two young people so diverse created an unforgetable story. Sparks uses a plain and "to the point" style to tell his personal story of love and loss. The book is an easy read. Once you start, it is hard to put down. The story itself is so captivating that you want to finish the book once you read the first chapter. Overall, I think that the book would be more likely to be well received by females as opposed to males,simply because it is a love story. It is unpredictable and Inspiring. What a Moving Story.
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Summary: Teen Love- It Never Seems Possible Until Now"
Review: This is the fourth novel I have read by Nicholas Sparks. His words still continue to intrigue me more and more with every new cover I open. The latest novel I have read was A Walk to Remember. With its sweet, innocent tale of love, anyone can see how it became a New York Times Bestseller. In this novel, Landon Carter looks back on how he took on his senior year at Beaufort High in 1958. He is elected class president and must attend the homecoming dance. By the time he was elected, "all" the girls were already taken. He resorted to pulling out his yearbook. He came across a girl named Jamie Sullivan, he has to look twice. No one would have ever imagined this shy minister's daughter would be Landon's choice. They would also never imagine what would eventually come of this date. Sparks will take each and every reader down Landon's walk which was definitely made to remember. Keep a box of Kleenex box along side of you and take in Sparks words of faith in a situation such as Landon's and Jamie's.
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Summary: Make This a Movie!
Review: I just finished reading this book as I am looking out a picture window with a beautiful view of a lake. Perfect. I felt like I was back in time and part of a story that I didn't want to end. I would love to see this made into a movie. Can't wait to read the rest of Nicholas Sparks' books.
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Summary: Ridiculous
Review: First, let me say that I am usually not a very harsh critic, I try to find something positive in every book I read. For example, "Message in a Bottle" which is probably not a very sophisticated piece of literature either, is one of my favorites and I gave it five stars. But "A Walk to Remember" is so full of kitsch and clichés, it's just ridiculous. The sweet but plain minister's daughter who helps orphans and injured animals, the "wild boy" who is not so wild after all and tries to do the right thing, his buddy, the most popular guy in town who also turns out to be a real nice guy and the pretty cheerleader who has "banana pudding where her brains should have been" - oh, please! Shallow characters and a very unrealistic and foreseeable plot form a fairy-tale without the usual "and they lived happily ever after"-ending. So if you are a romantic teenage girl looking for a story that will make you cry your eyes out, you found it. For all others, it's just a big fat waste of time. Sorry, Nicholas Sparks, but this book is definitely one of the worst I have ever read, and I bet it would have been rejected by every publisher, had it been your first novel.
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Summary: Nothing but a Glorified Harlequin Romance
Review: This, as all of Sparks' books, are just romantic, predictable, sappy drivel. By page 5, most readers know exactly where this is going. There's much better stuff out there to be reading than this, folks.
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Summary: Sweet, Heartwarming, and Wonderful
Review: I guarantee... you will laugh.And I guarantee... you will cry. This was the promise of the author in the last sentence of the prologue. Thus, you already had an idea of how the book was going to end. By chapter 5, I had already pretty much figured out the book. But, as mildly predictable as it may be, it's not the end and whether you know it or not that matters, but how sweet the journey is to get there... and this is such a sweet story. In the beginning, I laughed my tail off, and thought this was a wonderful book. At the end, I cried... and still thought this was a wonderful book. All the predictions were true, and rarely do I come across a book that can be so touching as this one has touched me. Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author and I have read all his books. In my opinion, this one is his best. I can only hope that one day I meet my Jamie Sullivan. But one can never know... about God's plan :)
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Summary: Sweet but predictable
Review: While I do love Nicholas Sparks writing, and yes even I was moved to tears (not easy to do) in this sweet story; I found A Walk to Remember predictable. If you a looking for a fast read and a cathartic cry this is the book for you. I found the protaganist to be placed on a pedestal so high that I could not relate even to the feelings the narrator has for her. Yes I cried, yes it was a quick read. I just expected more.
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