A Walk to Remember

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Summary: Eye Opening Love
Review: This book is so extremely well written! I just love the way you could slowly see how Landon was falling in love with Jamie. Everybody in their life knows a 'Jamie' and a 'Landon'. This review probably seems to be going nowhere. Lets just say my friend let me borrow this book for a business trip I was going on, I finished the book that same night. I had a hard time getting up for my meeting the next morning but it was well worth it. A Walk to Remember made me remember how precious life is and to never take anything for granted.

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Summary: Nice read
Review: This is my second N. Sparks book and definitely not the better of the two. I enjoyed this book on the level that it was an easy read and a touching story with good characters. I sympathized with Jamie when she was the outcast and I'm glad Landon looks beyond what the public sees to learn about the woman deep within. But this book is written on the level of a teenager and definitely doesn't have the depth of character and story that "The Notebook" has. A good, easy read overall, but nothing I'd recommend to someone of a more mature reading level.

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Summary: sappy, sweet and relatively harmless
Review: I'm not totally heartless -- I did enjoy this very brief book (for a fast reader, maybe a full hour's worth) by Nicholas Sparks for its sweet and idealistic story of true love as seen through a the young Landon. Sparks certainly does his best to keep up that nice boy image for both himself and his characters. Everyone is disgustingly wholesome and even the "bad" boys at worst have a box of camels rolled up their sleeves. It's not that the book is bad, it's just as many have pointed out: manipulative tear-jerking stuff that appeals the most to 17 year old girls. Still, as I said, I enjoyed the plot, although by about page 10 I pegged most of it. The narrator is very likable though so I found myself enjoying, not "wading through" the relatively straightforward prose. I don't think Sparks portrays himself as a great writer, so I can't begrudge him his fame for this genre. I'd rather read a sweet, sappy book by a well-intentioned writer than a slasher book any day. Sparks will remind many of Richard Paul Evans, another writer who writes agreeable books that seem ready for a Hallmark Hall of Fame special. Worth reading though for a quick and uplifting read.

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Summary: A message to ch263
Review: As I was reading these reviews, I wondered if I had read a different ending than everyone else. I thought the book was a powerful, sweet love story and a very good read. I finished the book in 1 day. Yes, it is predictable. No, it will not go down in history as a literary masterpiece. But it is a very heartwarming, often funny and tearjerking tale of two teenagers. Personally, this is the kind of book that I enjoy reading on a cold rainy or snowy day. I titled my review as I did because I too have been wondering about the ending.

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Summary: A Book To Remember
Review: This book is definitely a book to remember! The characters are so real. When you read something from this book it feels like your actually there. You feel what the characters are feeling. The author tries to tell us that we can't save everything we love but we can give it happiness while it's still here and that not every book may have a happy ending.

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Summary: A Walk that's predictable.
Review: This is my first experience with a Sparks novel and likely to be my last. If after 20 pages you can't figure out where this book is going you're probably going to enjoy it. The time period of the fifties serves no real purpose and adds nothing to the story. (Sea bass and salad in a restaurant in the 50's, please!)The spirituality of love is no trifle but this book never convinces me that this callow youth has made such an incredible change. The prose reads like something that could be picked up the young adult section in the library. There was one saving grace however; it was short.

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Summary: Comedy and True love
Review: I loved it! This was one of the first books I read by N. Sparks and I like the way he writes. The book had a great mix of comedy and romanace.

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Summary: This is just a thought........
Review: I have just finished reading the reviews written by fellow readers of Nicholas Sparks new novel "A Walk to Remember". And I too have much to say about it. I found that there were two definite sides taken, those who liked it a lot, and those who thought it "foolish pablum", now I may not know what that means, but it does sound negative (DUH!). Now here it comes.....my "Oh So Wonderful Wisdom" that will magically bring peace on earth and solve world hunger....NOT. Well maybe I wish. The fact of the matter is I though that the book was a good read. I found special meaning in it, but then I could relate to a lot that went on. I lost my dad to a malignant brain tumor; I had to watch him die. I know that there are many out there like me, believe me when I say I am not looking for tea and sympathy by any means. Yes Nick was right I did cry, and I laughed too. I know that many may not agree with me, but that is what this is about right, stating your "opinion". I read through most of the 1-3 star rating reviews and some good points were made. Yes it was predictable. On the other hand I found that there were others like me who found it enjoyable even if it was predictable (such as Betty Chan or Bill Dockery). My review may be 1 in a million, and may never even be read by anybody, but thank you Sparks I enjoyed it. And I encourage you to read it for yourself.

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Summary: Mr. Strout made me write this
Review: I had already heard good things about this book from a fellow classmate who recomended it to me. Although the book was a bit undeleloped in detail and in lenth, it was a good read. Short, quick, and to the point but it also gave room for some tradgic surprise. Landon Carter is a typical high school student, he is more interested in his friends than in his school work. He has to deal with the pressures of trying to find a date to homecommimg because it's not "cool' if you go stag. The last person anyone would think of becomes his date, "bible girl", Jamie Sullivan.Things between them start to heat up after Landon gets talked into doing the christmas play. Just as things are going great for the two, Tradgity strikes, leaving the two in a rare sitution for high school students. As the book unfolds it becomes harder to put it down. This book is a good, quick read. Most likely women will like it more than men.

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Summary: Reader's Response
Review: Jamie Sullivan is quite and polite young girl that carries her Bible with her and helps out at an orphanage. When Jamie Sullivan and her meet, she tells him not to fall in love with her. He doesn't expect that to ever happen, but through a series of events, he falls in love with her and later finds out that she has a fatal dissease. This book was well written and easy to read. The author has a unique way of capturing your attention and keeping it. Once you start reading it, it is hard to put the book down. Also, the author makes you laugh one moment and want to cry the next. Personally, I really enjoyed the book. I was able to relate well to it. Primarily because of the age similarity and some of the problems the charcters faced, I have had to face also. The author's style was interesting to me, and I am reading another one of his books now. This book left me wanting to be a better person and it gave me a new perspective of life. Even though I thought this was a good book, I think that more females would enjoy it than males. I think that young adults and adults would be more drawn to this book than any other age group.