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Summary: One of the best books I have read
Review: I am 15 years old, and I am not really into reading. I happened to pick this book, and read it. This book was absoulutly with out a doubt, the best book I have ever read. This book is especially great for teenagers, and shows what we go through sort of. I would recomend this book to anyone, young or old!
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Summary: a walk to remember
Review: This book was one of the best books I have ever read. Though the first chapter was hard to get through due to the fact that it was boring, you find the most enchanting love story. This book will make you laugh and cry but most of all it will touch your soul in a way you will remember long after you are done reading it. I recommend reading this book instead of seeing the movie too. The movie was injustice for a book with so much power.
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Summary: Amazing book!!!
Review: This book was touching and the movie did a great job following the storyline. Take some tissues because half the theater was sobbing!!!
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Summary: A BOOK TO REMEMBER
Review: This is a GREAT book. Being only 2 years younger then Landon in this book(2 years younger then he was at 17, that is), i really connected with him and the kind of guy he was. I think this is a sign of a VERY good writer, and Nicholas Sparks is very good. Landon is a lot like me in some ways and reading this book was very inspiring and a great read. It was a great love story with great characters and great writing. I highly reccomend this book without reservation to anyone, though, regardless of age, usual intrest in romance/love stories, or anything else.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: This book was a wonderful love story, somewhat predictable, yet lovable because of it. It's a feel-good book that renews your faith in life and love, with an ending that you can almost decide for yourself, but without the typical unsatisfaction of such an ending. I would recommend this especially to teens because it relates to their age group. What a fantastic book!
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Summary: *Touching*
Review: This book was the best book I read! Nicholas Sparks sure knows how to write a great book! It's a sad yet touching book...that you'll love! I saw the movie which was great...but of course the book was better!! It took me 4 days to finish the book...and i loved it! I recomend that you all read it! Jamie Sullivan and Landon Carter will touch your heart and take you through a wonderful book!! i was crying for days!
**Enjoy**
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Summary: Good young adult story
Review: From reading the other reviews, it seems the readers who gave the book the highest marks were young teens. This makes sense; this book IS a young-adult story, and I would highly recommend it to those readers between the ages of 12 and 18. But to consider it as a mainstream novel, it leaves much to be desired. I love smaltzy, romantic stuff, but this was just too much to bear. Toward the end of the story, I just couldn't wait for Jaime to die and get it over with. Spark's The Rescue is a much better book on a more adult level.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: When someone gave me a copy of this book, at first I thought this is yet another teen love story. I was, of course, totally wrong. It is a great book, and I would now recommend it to anyone without reservation.The ending is unusual and in a way, interesting. It shows Sparks' skills with literary devices. He does not describe Jamie's death scene (And no, the book does not have Jamie holding Landon's hand as she died. Don't know if the movie version has such a scene though.) In fact, Sparks leaves some room to the reader's imagination as far as the ending goes. The last line of the book is most interesting. "But this is Okay, I smile slightly, looking toward the sky, knowing there's one thing I still Haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen." What does he mean by that? What's the "miracle" here? Is he refering to his changed and transformed life? Or Jamie's saintly character and life? But he has already told us about them earlier in the book. They can not be the "one thing that I still haven't told you." I think here, in a very clever and subtle way, Sparks leaves open the room of imagination and speculation that the miracle eagerly sought after in the earlier part of the book might have taken place - thus he now believes that miracles can happen, and that Jamie might not have died after all. But had Sparks openly said so, the story would be too melodramatic, not to mention that most readers, with the exception of those who also believe in the miracles themselves, would question the believability of the story - after all, we are talking about the terminal case of Leukemia in 1959. But on the other hand, had Sparks explicitly told us that Jamie died, which he didn't do by the way, especially if it comes with the death scene of Jamie holding Landon's hand; the story would be too conventional, too much like the teen version of Love Story - not to mention that it would take tremendous amount of effort on the writer's part to harmonize that kind of explicit ending with that cleverly hidden (yet always there) upbeat undercurrent that runs through the whole book. I personally think Sparks take the best approach. Instead of an explicit, conventional, (or melodramatic) ending, he drops subtle hints and uses the vague sentences that can be interpreted in more than one ways. One of my favorites of this kind appears in the second last paragraph. "I still love her, you see, and I've never removed my ring. In all these years I've never felt the desire to do so." Obviously, this can be interpreted in several different ways. Yes, I understand that some readers may feel the ending is confusing. However, I think Sparks is very clever in leaving open the possibility for readers' imagination, interpretation, and speculation - (in a way, like Scarlet O'Hara's last line in "Gone with the wind".) Just don't know how the movie can preserve this ambiguity though. Anyway, this is a wonderful book.
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Summary: It was like i was there with him.
Review: Landon Carter is now 57, but when he was 17 his life changed forever. Jamie, the girl he had known for his whole life, but didnt think anything else of her except for a friend, became somthing more. Landon sighed up for a drama class expecring it to be a 'blow-off' class, but what he got out of that class was somthing more. He needed a date for the Homecoming dance, Jamie was the last girl he could think of. Before she agreed to going she told Landon to promise he wouldent fall in love with her. He promised while laughing it off, never thinking anything of it. Jamie had asked him to be the lead in the play along with her. They rehearsed every day for weeks. Jamie and Landon grew closer and closer. For the first time in Landons life, hes in love. He wants nothing more then to be with her. Jamie only has one dream in life that turns into a goal. Which is to have the biggest wedding, over flowing with people and nothing else. Landon found that strange seeing thats all she wanted. but he soon found out thats all she could have in the short time she had to live. Jamie developed a disease, leukemia. At this point one million things were running through Landons head, but still all he wanted was to be with her. He decided to marry her, and have her dream come true.
Jamie and Landon are the type of cherecters that can make you laugh and cry at the same time. Jamie seemed like the responsible, caring, and loving girl that will always be there for you. Landon was the more popular, football playing type of guy. I liked how Nichols Sparks would show great detail in every thing they did. The auther also showed flash back, it was like Landon was sitting right next to you telling you about his teen years. At the begining of the book it says "First you will smile, and you will cry-- don't say you havent been warned." At first i didnt understaind it, but once i got into the book it started making sence. This book has been my favorite, at times it was funny sad and very moving.
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Summary: Achingly Sweet.................
Review: Landan Carter's life was forever changed when he was 17. He fell in love for the first time to the girl he had never really looked at before. But it was more then that, he learned some hard life lessons that year, lessons he would never, ever forget. Every spring, when the grass is new and the air gentle ruffles his hair, he goes back in time. Back to the year, 1957. No longer is he 57, but 17, once again. He remembers every detail vividly, as if it just happened yesterday. He never noticed Jamie Sullivan. Yeah he knew she was there, but he never noticed how pure her heart was. He figured there was nothing to notice. She was a plain looking, good two-shoes, who made every teenager in Beaufort look bad. She helped old people cross the street, raised money for the orphanage, read her Bible at school, every day. She was the perfect person, or so he thought. When she asks him to be in the play, he's a little hesitant, but he agrees. And so begins his path towards love. His love isn't passionate or loud. It's soft spoken and subtle. He doesn't even realize he's falling in love with her, until he's smack dab in the middle of it. Yes, this story is predictable and not original, but that's not the point. I think I love this book because it leaves you with the feeling that they found eternatl love within the other. Landan learns how to look past Jamie's outer appearance and see the beautiful heart within. Jamie sees past Landans rough exterior, he's just a sweet boy, longing for love on the inside. Usually I don't like books, if there is hardly any romance in it, but I can't imagine this book have being written any other way. Would I change anything in this book? Not a single word.
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