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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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Summary: A awesome story...
Review: I'll be honest. I probably never would have heard of this book if the movie hadn't been created. But the movie AND the book tell such an AMAZING TOUCHING story that they both made me cry. I cried literally 20 minutes after I finished the book. I will give nothing away about the movie or book, but Jamie Sullivan and Landon Carter are miracles to each other, it is so sad at the end. This film, book, and soundtrack are all so AWESOME!
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Summary: 17yr old male, what i think...
Review: Mandy Moore was my first reason i had read this book, i saw the promos for the movie, and knew there was a book. So at 8:00pm on Thursday the 24th of January 2002, i got into my car and drove to the local bookstore. I started reading it right there, i read for 2 hours until the store closed at 10pm. I got through 9 of the 13 chapters. The wrong thing was that i stopped reading, until the next day. It gave me a lot of time to think about what the last 4 chapters were about. It turned out to be predictable, a few things gave it away. So in my opinion it should be read all at one time. Finding out how the story unfolds is the main reason to keep reading. As a guy i liked this book, no doubt. The vocabulary in the book was around 8th or 9th grade, but the simplicity is quite good (written probably for that age group) At first i was smiling a bit, but by the end it did make you sad. I could relate to it at that date thats why it was so appealing. For others it might be more.
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Summary: Tissue stock will go up
Review: This book is one of the best by far that I have read in a long time. Nicholas Sparks can interest the reader and keep them interested throughout the entire book, wanting to read more from him. One thought, don't read the book then see the movie thinking you'll see a mirror image. The book keeps the story "sweet", still sad but wonderful just the same. The movie takes a little time to get "sweet", then you dig for the tissues during the last hour. I have read all of Nicholas Sparks' books and plan to continue with each and every book he writes. I hope he never stops. He is now my #1 author!
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ
Review: i can't describe how good this book is! it makes you cry, it makes you laugh! its such a great luv story! (a good girl book) i HIGHLY reccomend, SP?, this book! please read this book! you won't regret it! the movie is sooo cool! but read the book 1st!
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Summary: Extraordinary, Page turner novel
Review: Nicholas Sparks has two New York's time's bestseller books. He has been named as a leading author of today's best writers of love stories.
I loved A Walk to Remember because it is a heart-warming novel of two opposites who attract each other. It contains an excellent mixture of feelings, I laughed, and cried with this book. Because Sparks adds small details to the story, I enjoyed this book. Friendship, love, death, and specially faith are some the feelings Sparks wrote about in this sticking piece of work.
Have you ever fallen in love, with the last person you could have imagined?
A Walk to Remember unrolls an exquisite story of love in Beaufort, North Carolina in 1958. Landon, a teenager who is afraid to face manhood, had already dated a girl or two and thought he had once been in love. When homecoming arrives, he is left with the only option of taking lonesome Jamie Sullivan. Benevolent Jamie, daughter of the Prime minister, volunteer at the local orphanage, and helper of injured animals always carried a bible with her.
Jamie pursued Landon to enter the year's Christmas play. Walking Jamie to her house, every day after the play's rehearsal, Landon and Jamie slowly open the doors to their hearts where a congenial friendship grows.
On the night of the play, when the air was crisp and the sky was clear, Jamie looked like an angel and for the first time Landon admitted that she looked glamorous and spectacular. Since Jamie and Landon fall in love, together they discover that their faith is stronger than life itself, and it can fight against all the obstacles that they are faced with.
I recommend this book to any anyone who is willing to understand challenges that life presents to us, and how faith is the only thing that can help us move on. Never judge someone by first impressions, but always remember to take a deeper look.
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Summary: The Best Book
Review: Not all of us in this world have fallen in love, nor do we know what it's like to be in love. Yet, some people like Nicholas Sparks have the eminent gift to be able to describe love to us in such an extraordinary way that makes our heart hungry for this marvelous feeling.
During the year of 1958 at Beaufort, North Carolina a touching story about love at a young age, unfolds. Landon at age seventeen thought that he'd gone through a long journey in life. But, the day destiny deals him a bad hand, his life completely rotates; he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan. In simple and common words the "school geek", whom he had known all of his life, but had never paid enough attention to notice her inner beauty.
The magic of how Landon with the rush of time is attracted to Jamie more and more, but fools himself by not accepting it, keeps you glued to this splendid story. What if this lovely realistic-fiction novel actually took place? I would get us startled, wouldn't it? Not for the fact that the "school geek" and the "popular guy" fell in love. But, for the fact that two people found within each other what most people spend their lives seeking, mutual love.
Read "A Walk to Remember" and experience all the different kinds of feelings Nicholas Sparks wakens up from your heart. Love is another world apart, and the only way to know about is by exploring it. Stories like this one though, show and prove to us now love is and if you want to see it with your own eyes I recommend reading "A Walk to Remember".
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