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Summary: Bittersweet Love Story
Review: Are you a girl? Then you will love this book! Are you a boy? You may not like it quite as much. A Walk to Remember is a bittersweet, inspiring book. It starts out with a man who is in his late fifties telling about his senior year in high school. This man's name is Landon Carter. The year is 1958, and he lives in Beaufort, North Carolina. Landon is a fairly normal young man, who in his own words, doesn't really excel in anything. He is elected president of his senior class, and Homecoming is soon to arrive. He doesn't have a date, so he decides to invite Jamie Sullivan, a girl he has known all his life. Jamie is a do-gooder. Her favorite activities include reading the Bible and visiting the orphanage, not to mention that her dad is the pastor of the local church that Landon attends. He asks her, and she agrees. At the dance, Landon's ex-girlfriend, Angela, shows up drunk and makes quite a mess in the bathroom. Jamie and Landon clean it up, and Landon realizes that Jamie really is different. She convinces him to be the lead in a Christmas pageant, one that has been performed every year, called "The Christmas Angel", and it just so happens that Jamie's dad wrote the play. He agrees, grudgingly. Throughout the practices, Landon walks Jamie home, and they talk about all sorts of things, mostly God, since Jamie is a devout Christian. For Christmas, Jamie gives Landon a Bible, but not just any Bible. It's the Bible that belonged to her mother before she died giving birth to Jamie. This is a very special gift for Landon. He soon finds himself falling in love with Jamie. They spend a lot of time together. Before long, Landon finds out that Jamie is very sick. In fact she has a very rare case of leukemia, and she is dying. In the little time that they have left together, Jamie still inspires Landon and never feels sorry for herself. A little time before she dies, they decide to get married. After she dies, the story returns to present day, and the man, Landon Carter is still very much in love with Jamie and always will be. Despite the sadness of her death, Landon comes to know Christ through her, and knows the true meaning of love.
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Summary: The Best Book Ever
Review: For all those people who gave a review before me, and said they did not like this book- there is only one thing that I can say and that is you are crazy! Being a 17 year old girl I found this book to be heart warming, and an inspiration to all shy girls. After the first chapter I was stuck in the life of Landon and his love for Jamie. Towards the end the book brought tears to my eyes. I plan to read more of Sparks books after this one.
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Summary: Wonderful story of a first love!
Review: I purchased this book at an airport - just to pass the time. It did far more than just pass the time, it consumed the time and made a lasting impression, a story I will remember for a long time. I couldn't put it down! When I read the author's prologue "First you will smile, then you will cry", he knew exactly what he was talking about! I DID smile, I DID cry! The book was very well written and a wonderful, delightful story! I recommend this book to all ages. A great story for the young and old! Bravo Nicholas Sparks! Another great novel that I've very much enjoyed!
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Summary: Excellent, The Best Book I've Ever Read
Review: I usually don't write reviews, but for this book I HAD to, it was so gripping, an everlasting love story filled with the depth of human heart and emotions. Out of all the books I've ever read this is my absoulute FAVORITE. This story is a masterpiece, written in a beautiful moving way, to touch even the hardest heart. A recommedation for any reader of both sexes, and for all ages.
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Summary: A Walk to Remember
Review: In the novel A Walk to Remember written by Nicholas Sparks,Sparks makes the reader both smile and cry. In 1958 in Beaufort,South Carolina Landon Carter a seventeen year old senior in highschool enjoys hanging out with his football buddies and taunting others. Landon's father is a congressman , that insists because of his son's poor grades that he needs to do something extra to get into college. Landon decides to run for class president and wins. Now that he has won the election he has responsibilities, which is to attend the school dance. The only problem is that he doesn't have a girlfriend to go with. Landon decides to ask Jaime Sullivan, the minister's daughter, because she is someone that would defenitley accept, is a part of the geek group, and probably hasn't been asked yet. They both have a good time at the dance but Landon doesnt think much about her untill they both play leading roles for the school Christmas play. Her father wrote the play afet her mothered died. The whole school is excited about Jaime starring as the angel, and Landon playing the male lead role. Ater spending so much time practicing the play with Jaime he finds himself falling in love with her and seeing her true beauty inside of her. Jaime does have a secret that will brake Landon's heart, if she ever let's it out. Jaime says to Landon,"You can't fall in love with me". With the ending of this story it is sure to bring a smile and tear across your face for the holiday season.
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Summary: Low point of Nick's career
Review: The plot in this novel would be better characterized as fodder for a cheap "USA" network movie rather than genuine literature. It was an extremely predictable, slow, and generally disappointing read. It might have been decent as a 10 page short story.
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Summary: A Walk to Remember
Review: The first Nicholas Sparks book that I read was The Notebook. What a wonderful novel, which pulled me along and kept me reading right through to the end nonstop. Then came Message in a Bottle. I really enjoyed it, too. Not quite as much as the first book, but it definitely had its good points. Unfortunately, A Walk to Remember truly disappointed me. I don't know if it was the tacky setup in the prologue which told me that he was planning to manipulate my emotions right from the start or if it was just the story itself. I didn't laugh. I didn't cry. I believe Mr. Sparks does a much better job of telling a story when he is NOT doing it with the sole intent of emotional maneuvering. I read it and found myself thinking that my 12-year-old daughter might enjoy it when I finished it.
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Summary: A walk through life
Review: I picked up this book and read it about a year ago because for the past 20 years, I've owned my own business and unknowingly got caught up in being a workaholic...taking no time to do the enjoyable, stress-relieving things I like to do. I promised myself I would start spending 1/2 an hour daily on myself by reading a novel. I set out for the bookstore in search for a stress-relieving, calming, heart comforting, enjoyable book.....AND I FOUND THIS ONE and hoped that when I finished it, that it was as rewarding as it seemed. Well--it was better than that........it's a wonderful book.......It's an honest walk through life with characters that we have all grown up with, went to school with, and have even worked with. Pick this book up and read it---it will not disappoint you.
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Summary: Simple, yet beautiful
Review: Like his previous two novels (Message in a Bottle; The Notebook), Sparks has captured the essence of romance and human emotions into this moving story. The story, although fictional, is one that each and everyone of us can relate to. It is spoken as if really by a teenager who has never experienced love and is experiencing it for the very first time. As a teenager myself, I find the story captivating and moving. Unlike some other romance novels, this one speaks of pure and innocent love. The novel itself proves that romance and sex does not have to go together, that two people can be attracted to each other on an emotional level and show the world that true love does exist. I definitely recommend this book! I bought it yesterday and finished it in the same night! I simply couldn't put it down. So everyone, run to the bookstore and grab the first copy you can find! A Walk to Remember is a novel that you will NOT want to miss!
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Summary: Memories come flying back
Review: Desperately attempting to find a book, any book, to read while flying from New Orleans to Cleveland I picked up this book because it was short, had a nice picture on the front, and was written by the author who gave us Time in a Bottle. Not expecting much I read the prologue and became slightly interested in the first person account of a self-absorbed 17 year old boy. (It kinda described me 25 years ago.)After the 1st chapter, I was hooked! Spark's humorous phrasing and self-appraisal is wonderful. Best of all is his ability to tell a simple story which is filled with implications regarding relationships that everyone can benefit from. Is this fluff? I guess so, but so what. Is it predictable? Yes, but so what. The only knock on this book would be the author's not too subtle attempts to bring tears to the readers' eyes in the final passages of the book. But so what! In essence, while reading this book, I became that 17 year old boy all over again. It brought back memories and feelings often buried after years and years of being an adult. Thanks, Sparks. It's not often I read a book that I enjoy and that I can recommend it to my daughter, my wife, my son and my mother.
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