Walk to Remember, A

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Summary: The Spark is Missing
Review: Yes, it is a sweet story -- still not in the league with The Notebook, but definitely an improvement over Message in a Bottle. The writing is not inspired, though it is easy to imagine it to be the words of a 17 year old. Mr. Sparks weaves an inspirational story of faith and trust and living our lives to the fullest. Touching, though a bit sappy and maudlin, but nonetheless worthwhile. More of a screenplay, though, than literature.

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Summary: A Very Sweet Love Story...
Review: I have read all three of Spark's books. I loved The Notebook and hated Message in a Bottle. I gave up on this author but then I received A Walk to Remember for a Christmas present. I just finished it and loved it. It is my favorite of the three books. I think he should write more books like this one. The characters were so wholesome and good. It was a pleasure to read even though I cried through the last two chapters!

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Summary: Must Buy!
Review: I don't normally write reviews. However, I just finished this novel and felt compelled to do so. Nicholas Sparks has topped himself. I read both of his previous novels and enjoyed them. This one is a touching story that got better with the turn of each page. I laughed and cried out loud, which is something else I don't normally do. Put it in your shopping cart now! I don't think you'll be disappointed.

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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]