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Summary: A Walk to Remember
Review: I've just put down and finished reading A Walk to Remember and I just had to write something somewhere telling someone to read it. I've thought of reading this book back then--thinking that if the movie was good, the book would be astounding--but didn't really get to doing so. This week though, my English teacher passed out a list of five books wherein we could choose one, find a way to get that book and be done reading it by the 27th of October. So I went to the library after school today and got the book. I told myself I'd peek inside and close it again, promising myself that I won't breeze through it so fast. So I peeked... read the prologue... nodded at the warning in it and reluctantly grabbed myself a box of tissues--thinking that I probably won't use it anyway. I read... and never stopped. Right now, about 10 minutes after finishing the book, my eyes are bloodshot, swollen and are stinging so bad. It was a great read. A must-read actually. I seriously was hanging onto every word.
Now, I've decided that tomorrow, I'll march back to the library and get myself all the available Nicholas Sparks books. I'll read them fast and go back here, hopefully giving out some more stars.
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Summary: A beautiful novel
Review: 'A Walk To Remember' is a beautifully written novel. The story line evloves around the love of two teenagers and it shows that love can strike at any age. What makes this novel so good is the charatcher building and how they share their love for each other.
There are parts in this novel that make it a romance classic, and this is a MUST read novel if you are a romantic type of person like me.
There are parts in this novel that made me cry, and also it made me happy to see that these two people found love, and also it teaches how you can lose that love but still you change as a person inside and out. GREAT NOVEL.
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Summary: (Sigh) How romantic!
Review: As a student of a high school with the shallowest boys ever encountered on the face of the earth (and I'm not kidding), I'm really fed up with the typical "She's hot, he's hot" antics that form the pathetic relationships in our school. This book proved to skeptics like me that there can be such a thing as a guy truly in love (hopefully) and that the opposite sex doesn't just fall for the best looking chick in the room. Boy meets girl, boy turns good, falls in love with good girl, not really a new plot, but very well told. I especially loved the Christmas play (why did they change that in the movie?!?) and the homecoming dance. Nicholas Sparks really knows how to write a wonderful love story (I mean the real love that lasts, not the one-night stand kind) and remains one of my favorite authors. The book is definitely better than the movie, probably because I don't like Shane West, but I don't see why they changed the book plot so much, because they pretty much ruined it.
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Summary: I am very jealous of Nicholas Sparks
Review: The man is building an empire -- presumably a very lucrative one -- by crafting a simple, winning formula. One that I could have crafted if only I'd thought of it before he did. The formula is so simple: write a weepy, excessively sentimental love story. That's it. That's all it takes. Who buys books? Mostly women. What do they buy? Weepy, sentimental... well, you get it.
This book isn't even well written (as one reviewer has pointed out here, the first-person protagonist starts out telling his story in teenage-speak -- even though he's now a middle-aged man). But all Sparks had to do was create a character who was so smitten with the ethereal girl that he NEVER got over her -- never even considered getting married or even having a relationship of any kind with any other woman as long as he lived. Voila -- his target audience is hooked. Sparks gets richer. I get more jealous.
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Summary: a reader
Review: If you want a book that's a romantic drama with a great lesson then this is the book for you. In the first chapter you'll probibly think this so boring and you want to stop, but keep reading, 'cause this is a really great book. It teachs you that you have to get to know people to know what there like and enjoy something when you have it or them.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: At last in my opinion a real romance novel. Finally a story about a guy who falls in love with a girl who is not exactly pretty but shows the beauty inside which is what really counts. I was happy to finally at last read a novel where the main male character falls in love with a woman who isn't a fiery vixen or some whorey temptress that you see on those [other] romance ... novels, etc. I mean a story about real committment and everlasting love without the disgusting sex and dialogue that you read in those books. A Walk to Remember is one of my favorite novels and I hope more writers out there start writing about these kind of storylines where a man can fall for a woman even if she is plain to look at but beautiful inside.
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Summary: A Sweet Little Love Story
Review: This is a sweet story of young love and the joys and pains that come with it. However this story about these two lovers was a little different. In the beginning, the girl was portrayed as a being a little awkward and somewhat aloof. However, when the girl's personality is revealed more and more--the narrator starts to fall in love with her. Sadly, their budding romance was threatened with Nick's discovery of Jamie's cancer. But even cancer was not enough to keep these two lovers apart. Their romance seemed to deepen with this discovery and towards the end of the story--the two decided to get married. This story will make you happy, sad, laugh, cry, and wanting more!!!!
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Summary: Sometimes predictable ,but generally okay
Review: This is a story of a young man who changes his entire world picture after his relationship with a sweet and loving classmate.
Nicholas Sparks cleverly narrates the story in the first person, so the story is more realistic, and the character's feelings are not exaggerated, so thankfully there are no Harlequin elements here.
Also, Sparks writes with a fast pace, so there are no boring details or passages here.
The story is pretty simple really, and most readers already know what's about to happen.
When it does happen, however, it seems that the author loses control.
We don't really see the main character's range of feelings about what is happening, and there are some bits of cliche.
It also annoyed me that the book had to come to a predictable, unoriginal and uninspired conclusion, which makes even the rest of the book seem different in a negative way (THIS was what it was heading to? Really!)
So, read it if you want a nice romantic story and don't expect anything much.
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Summary: More than a love story
Review: What a beautiful and very simple love story! Don't be fooled by the fact that it's two teenagers. There is a lot of depth in this story. I love Sparks' style and the simplicity of the love they shared, reminds me very much of Shade of the Maple by Kirk Martin. I just read an advance copy of Martin's latest, Gifted, after reading about it at kirkmartinbooks.com. Like A Walk to Remember, it centers on two teenagers, but it's way more than a love story. I'd say skip the movie and read the book, you'll love it!
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Summary: Good but not the best
Review: This book was incredibly touching but unrealistic, to me at least. The book was definitely better than the movie.
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