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Summary: I couldn't put this book down!!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read! It tells the story of a boy that falls in love w/ a girl that doesn't exactly hang out w/ his crowd. If you even remotly like love stories, you will love this one!! Read it!! It's worth it!!
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Summary: A sensitive story without the fireworks
Review: A boy becomes a man in this story written by Nicholas Sparks. The sensitive story evolves without fireworks yet touches your heart with the same afterglow.With a christian overtone, the story unfolds around a young man in 1958, experiencing conflicting feelings about the reverend's daughter. For this young man, he must come to the reality of his own family history, a history noting his grandfather exploiting others for self gain and leaving his own future heirs ripe with wealth. Confused as most teenagers are, he tries to work out his feelings of affections for Jamie, a plain Jane kind of girl, one not especially notable by the up crowd in his high school. Constantly trying to straddle acceptance, his 17th year of life proves to be one he and Jamie will never forget, one that they feel is a walk to remember. Not willing to give away the plot, I will leave the review with no furthur comment other than to note that it is a book that should be left to unfold as it is, with it's own perfectly sweet simplicity. Any more discussion simply will not do.
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Summary: my favorite book
Review: As soon as I started to read this book I couldn't put it down. I thought it was the most touching book I've ever read. It is a great love story of two teenagers who have to go threw more than the average teenage couple has to deal with. The ending is sad, but touching. Anyone would love this book.
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Summary: A truly heart-warming book
Review: Nicolas Sparks, the author of "A Walk to Remember", has written other books as genuine as this such as the well known, "The Notebook." I enjoy his books. He seems to give the story just the right amount of reality and romance so that the person reading it will have trouble putting it down. "A Walk to Remember" is about a young man falling in love with the school "nerd." He falls in love with her because she had such a kind and giving heart. Good morals are being set and shown in "A Walk to Remember." One example that comes to mind is a very important one and that is "not to judge a book by looking at the cover." In other words, look for character in a person, not just their appearance. The young man begins to spend time with the "nerd" and finds that even though she is shunned by the kids at school, she is loved deeply by all others she comes in contact with. She especially is loved by the children at a nearby orphanage. He comes to the point in their relationship that he sees she is very important to him and that she makes him be a better person when she is around. Shortly after that, he finds out she is very ill and he makes it his goal to fulfill her dreams. The ending is left up to the reader. Stopping at a point in which your imagination is unleashed and anything is possible. This book will fill your eyes with tears but your heart will abound with happiness.
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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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