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Summary: Buy It Used
Review: Nights in Rodanthe was a good story, a quick read and it had some moving parts. But it just wasn't up to the level of Nicholas Sparks' earlier books. This seems to happen to a lot of authors who get very famous. I will still read and even look forward to his future books, but I won't be rushing out to buy them anymore. I feel a little let down like he's taking his readers for granted and putting stories out now using a formula. Come on, Nicholas, give us the good stuff again!
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
Review: This book was a gem. I finished reading it in 5 hours. Nicholas Sparks can really write a love story. Have your tissues ready and be ready to cry. This is my new favorite of his, after The Notebook and Message in a Bottle. It is about the brief love affair of two middle aged people. They meet at time in both of their lives when they really need someone to make a difference in their lives and they do in such a big way, oh boy!! Of course it wouldn't be a Nicholas Sparks book if there wasn't heartbreak and sadness in it and there is. I highly recommend this to anybody who loves a good love story and I know I am a ... for one. I intend to give this to my daughters to read, knowing they will love it as well.
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Summary: A Great Weekend of Reading!!
Review: Wow, what a great weekend so far! I picked up Nights in Rodanthe and finished it Friday night after work! Another amazing love story from Nicholas Sparks - he is awesome! And I picked up Shade of the Maple by Kirk Martin based on other people's recommendation - wow, they were right. I opened Shade and was hooked on page 1, ok paragraph 1. I fell into this book and did not want to get out. He painted pictures so well I was reading in sense-around and he captured all the emotion of the characters. There have been so many books I have started, forced myself through 50 pages and then quit because I feel like the author was just filling a page. I didn't find any filler in Kirk Martin's story. Everything counted.It was beautiful. Very much like Nicholas' writing. I am only sad that my weekend of reading is over - I want more from these guys!!
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Summary: Another Great Novel, You Can't Put Down!!!!
Review: I started and read Nicholas Spark's newest novel "Nights in Rodanthe" all in one day. I couldn't put it down! This is a must have to add to your collection. Just when you think your middle aged and have nothing more to offer life or experience, the story proves that even in your 50's you can find love or even true love for that matter. It is a well told story about a woman who her ex-husband left her for another woman and she learns that what she had wasn't love at all. She looks after a inn for a friend and while she's there a man comes to stay for the weekend (whose a doctor, whose wife left him), only surprise is there is a hurricane on the way and they get trapped there for the duration. During that time attraction takes its toll on both of them, to which they can't fight anyone and they both make a weekend to remember. All this is told through the eyes of the woman and letters in which she kept over the years who is trying to give her daughter who just lost her husband to cancer hope to move on with her life with her children. In the end the man she falls for, "Paul" ends up dying in the process of making amends with his son.
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Summary: A Bit Stale
Review: First, I have to say that Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author ever. But I am afraid he has grown a bit stale. The stories seem to be recycled now. The last two books have seemed this way to me, but I always give him the benefit of the doubt because his stories are touching and sweet. But they seem like they are cut from the same storyline with the same types of sympathetic characters recycled again. I am afraid I have lost my excitement I once had for his books.
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Summary: Another great book!
Review: I just finished reading "Nights in Rodanthe", and must say that Mr Sparks has done it again. There is not doubt that if you like his other books, this one will be a must buy. You know going in with Mr Sparks books you will be touched and moved (to tears in many cases) and this book fits that pattern. He again presents a story that reminds or makes us long for a love that is not common in our day. As always, I would probably preferred the ending be different, but it will leave you satisfied just the same. If you like good romantic novels, this one will not disappoint you.
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Summary: Just Okay
Review: I loved The Notebook and Message In A Bottle and A Walk to Remember. Most of the time I disregard what the reviewers say. And so I rushed to get Nights in Rodanthe. But I am afraid they got it right this time. I should have listened:
"Of course, the beach, an impending storm, the fact that there are no other visitors around, a roaring fireplace, and any number of moments that could have been culled from a J. Crew catalogue and a Folgers's commercial make romance just about inevitable. Sparks couldn't be less subtle in this harshly mechanical story that adheres to formula in a way that would make an assembly-line romance writer blush. Short, to the point, and absolutely unremarkable." I hope Nicholas can recapture the magic of his first novels.
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Summary: Something's In the Water Down There...
Review: I have been a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks since The Notebook and read his weekly updates on nicholassparks.com. I was skeptical of other reviewers recommending Shade of the Maple, but then I read an excerpt and more about it at kirkmartinbooks.com. It was amazing. Wow, what are they putting in the water down there in North Carolina! So rare to find guys who understand emotion and relationships. Martin is deep and he gives money to charities (breast cancer research and Make-A-Wish). I loved Nights in Rodanthe - I like the way Sparks explores different kinds of love in each novel the way Martin explores intimacy (between a man and woman in Shade of the Maple and a father and son in The Gravel Drive). I hope they keep growing authors like this down there!!
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Summary: Nicholas Does The Same Story Again :(
Review: I enjoyed Nights in Rodanthe. It was touching and Nicholas Sparks pushed the right buttons again, but I felt I had read this story already. Sure I know others have complained that he's corny and sappy, but I don't mind that, sometime's it's good to just get away. But every story now is basically the same. I feel a little cheated, like he's just churning these stories out because he knows we'll flock to pick up the next one. I am going to wait for paperback next time. Anyone want a slightly used copy?
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Summary: Sooo Disappointed!
Review: I am a longtime fan of Nicholas Sparks, but I am so disappointed by Nights in Rodanthe. I had hoped he would be able to come up with something new this time. I liked the past couple books, but to be honest they have been getting pretty monotonous. And nothing is new with this one. It's the same old story - a man and woman who have painful pasts meeting in some unlikely situation that just seems made up. And of course they fall in love and help each other get over their pain. I felt like I knew what was going to happen before it happened because I have read this same story before, just with different characters. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I was hoping Nicholas could have come up with something different.
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