A Walk to Remember

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Summary: Great for the "Bridges of Madison County" set!
Review: I read this book because a student of mine loaned it to me after urging me to read it. I cannot believe this Nicholas Sparks is a published writer. The book is maudlin, trite, melodramatic, completely unbelievable, poorly written, and utterly contrived. . .I can't believe I just spent two hours of a perfectly good Sunday morning plowing through this book! It is so formulaic that if a student of mine had written it for a creative writing assignment, he would have received a grade of no higher than a C at the most. I am shuddering with revulsion as I type! If you think Harlequin Romances and Danielle Steele books are great literature, you will love this book. Otherwise, stay away! You have been warned!

By the way, no discerning reader cares by the end of the book if Jamie is really alive or not. You're just so angry and turned off because Nicholas Sparks has been trying so heavy-handedly to manipulate your emotions! (And failing quite miserably, may I add).

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Summary: What Happens to Jaime
Review: Stop reading this if you have not read the book yet. I think that in the end it is clear that Jamie does infact still die. The author wanted us to realize that the miracle that he was talking about wasn't Jaime living, it was the simple fact that he had the honor of loving someone so completely as he did Jamie. Loving Jamie was his miracle. A very sweet story.

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Summary: No Question to the Ending
Review: I conducted a phone interview with Mr.Sparks some time ago, and he did say that the ending was meant to conclude that Jamie does die. Perhaps it wasnt conveyed to other readers as he meant.

I did not like this book...it was way too shallow. I found it in the pages of my 5th grade sons book orders! Not for a mature adult.

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Summary: Sweeps you away in spite of yourself
Review: I don't like feeling manipulated. Shallow emotions are trite. Formulas in any form of the arts put fences around responses and feelings. And having protested that much in the opening pages of this little book I sought to prove my point by dissecting what was promising to be a corny tear-jerker for mass consumption. Wrong!

"A Walk to Remember" is ..... special. This is a simple story that for all it's predictable twists and turns keeps you so involved with the characters that I would be surprised if anyone could put it down before finishing it. A love story of the 1950's between polar personalities that progresses toward the oneness that real love achieves, this little fable takes on all the universal churnings of adolesence and in the simplest means offers answers to many of the Big Questions of philosophy. Landon and Jamie are sojourners through the mysteries of courtship and romance, but drawn in so terse a way that the resolutions to their own questions come first from the heart - of the reader. I think even the most hardened reader, if allowed soulful honesty instead of the pessimism with which we tend to conduct our way through this century, will find tears in the eyes and that constricted throat that means we are emotonally alive during the closing pages of this little treasure. Sure it is "corny"....if feelings, vulnerability, and simplicity are corny. I think we all need to read books like this with some regularity; it makes some sense of our past, our present, and a liitle light at the end of the tunnel.

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Summary: Its a great read!
Review: I really loved this book! It made me laugh, cry, and everything in between! I recommend this book to anyone with a heart. It took me less than 2 hours total to finish up this book. Read this book!

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Summary: Great book but questioning ending
Review: I loved this book. But I believe Jamie lived. Email me to get my answer to why I believe she lived ([e-mail])

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Summary: a walk to remember
Review: We just reviewed this book at our book club. Contrary to what we've been led to believe throughout the book, am I the only one to conclude that Jamie Sullivan does not die at the end of the story? [e-mail]

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Summary: Please help me settle the debate...
Review: I read this book back in October and I didn't know anyone else who had read it. I assumed that there was a positive ending... at least for a few more years (those who have read the story will know what I mean!). Then, a coworker read the story and had a completely different view of the ending. Now we are debating back and forth and are looking for others to help us. From reading the other reviews, it looks like many others agree with me. Anyone who cares to share their opinion, please feel free to e-mail me! No matter what others say about the ending, however, I still feel this is one of the greatest books I have ever read.

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Summary: A wonderful story!
Review: I loved this one. I sayt down and read it cover to cover in a little over two hours and was surprised at how much emotion I had during the reading. The story will keep you interested and wanting more... By far the best of the three.

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Summary: A must read
Review: WONDERFUL. After you read this book, you will never be the same. I highly recommend it.