Message in Bottle/ Unabridged

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Summary: This lonely love story keeps you hoping for a miracle.
Review: This is a great story to take to the beach where you can stop and look out to sea and think about all the messages waiting for other lovers to discover. As in his first novel, Sparks can tell a love story that will leave you thinking about it far longer than it will take you to finish the book. Loved it! Would recommend to anyone who likes to read a book in a day or two--won't take much longer.

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Summary: "Like getting a delivery of flowers for your heart"
Review: What a romance! What a beautiful heart it took to write " message in a bottle" on both the part of Sparks, and Garret, the lead character. Garret has the most beautifully descriptive way of sharing his feelings. You will fall in love with him from Chapter One and you won't be able to put this book down. Good job Sparks!!!

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Summary: Loved it, loved it, loved it!!
Review: Picked this book up at the library without knowing anything about it and thoroughly enjoyed it!!! Last night went back to the library to pick up his first book, The Notebook. It definitely hit all of my emotions. I was living vicariously through the characters. Refreshing to read a book which contained no foul language. Keep on writing, Mr. Sparks!!!

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Summary: Nicholas Sparks? or Barbara Cartland?
Review: Maybe I'm just jaded and bitter. Or maybe I read The Notebook when I was happy and in love. Either way, I was completely disappointed with Message in a Bottle. Too much boring detail (who cares what they were wearing, for God's sake) and too much sappy dialog. Is it impossible for two people to be in love in a normal way? Yes, people can learn to love again after losing the "love of their life" but usually it's a realistic relationship, not this storybook hoohah. I was ready for a relationship story, not an obvious attempt to jerk my heartstrings with a "two-hanky" romance. Mr. Sparks, write like you mean it, like you can. Don't pander to the folks who want goosh.

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Summary: The neediest man I ever read about!
Review: Nicholas Sparks only succeeded in disappointing me with "Message in a Bottle." The plot was contrived and the characters were repulsive! If Sparks was attempting to create romantic and sensitive characters, he failed miserably with Garrett Blake. This sorrowful, broken-hearted character is supposed to be sensitive, but ends up as a seriously needy lump of a man who can't mend his shredded heart. Theresa Osborne on the other hand, his second true love, is overconfident to the point of being cocky and downright rude. For lovers of Sparks' "The Notebook" his latest work will leave you feeling empty and cheated. It's neither romantic nor touching, it's simply a 300 page treatise on the pitfalls of codependency.

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Summary: I thought the book invoked soul searching in myself
Review: I enjoyed the book even though I felt a bit overwhelmed by the ending. The reason I enjoyed it is because I found myself asking if I was allowing myself true love. And even asking if I knew what true love is. Message In A Bottle made me realize that there can be true love and to make the most of it because you never know what may happen tomorrow.

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Summary: Wonderful and romantic
Review: After reading Sparks last novel, I was unsure he could top it! He has!!! I was in love with Garret thoughout the entire book. I couldn't put the book down. For anyone who enjoys a nice romantic novel - THIS IS IT!!!

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Summary: It was wonderfully written, it got to your heartstrings
Review: Message in a Bottle,just like The Notebook was an outstanding book to read. After I started reading it I could not put it down. The way Sparks writes, it grabs your attention and does not let it go till you finish the book. All the time I was reading it I wanted to know if a romance was going to blossom. Again, I felt like Sparks did a wonderful job with his second book- I just can't say enough about it!

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Summary: For people who are in love, they will not be disappointed.
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone who is either in love or who has experienced a great loss of a loved one. For anyone who has experienced the glorious exilerations of this most human emotion or the indescribable pain of love lost, you will be very glad you read this great story.

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Summary: This book was horrible - no other way to describe it.
Review: This book was horrible - no other way to describe it. Theresa is a self-righteous character out of a dime store romance novel and I was not surprised that her husband cheated on her. Garrett would have cheated too had he lived to marry her.

The Notebook was excellent. What happened? I think Sparks should stick to the male viewpoint or stop thinking of women in Victorian terms.