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Summary: He has done it again!
Review: He has done it again! Just like his other books, Nicholas Sparks put his mind, heart and soul into this book. This book is a piece of art. If the story can be true or not doesn't matter, it's the drive and the emotions that matter, and he knows pretty well how to play them. Nicholas Sparks is some weird master of mysteriously romantic novels. I find his work to be very exotic, yet very relaxing and peaceful!
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Summary: Romance lovers unite - this one's for you.
Review: A bit sappy, but then, Nicholas Sparks is reknowned for his romantic meanderings inside of a novel. Theresa Osborne, columnist for the Boston times, finds a bottle washed up on the shore in Cape Cod. Curious, she pulls the well inserted cork. Inside is a letter filled with such love, such pain, and such deep feelings, that Theresa is overwhelmed. Convinced by her editor to run the letter in her column, Theresa is awed by the amazing response, and even finds two other letters her readers have found. Piecing together, Theresa and her editor figure out where and who the writer is, and together they plot to find him. Theresa has always wanted to meet a man who could feel what was said in those letters so deeply anyhow, and being a single mother of a twelve year old boy, she decides to go and find him. The story flows then, much like the ocean does, but one must always look out for storms.
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Summary: A real tearjerker
Review: This was a good book, although the ending was very tragic it really shows how strong the bond of love is between two people i loved this book.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I like the book better than the movie.
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Summary: Tradjec Tale of a Love Lost and Found
Review: Sparks is absolutly amazing in his novels. "A Message in a Bottle" is just one of the many fantastic books he has written that is so suspensful yet very emotional. His stories move me so deeply in many of ways. This tale of a womens life, Theresea,whose life is turned upside down when her husband leaves her for another women shows you never to give up all hope. Who would of thought a seaside vacation was just want she needed and who of thought it would change her life forever.
Throughout the story I was praying something would come to give Theresea hope because no women should have to go through what happened to her and right before our eyes she finds the letter that would change everything that she thought was over. This letter did raise many of questions though for her as well as me. Who wrote this letter? We definatly both wanted to find out answers to them. I knew though by Thersea finding this letter it spoke to Thersea in a way that proufoundly touched her heart.
When Thersea is brought to Wrightsville Beach it is not by chance but something more powerful than that. I believe that fate brought her here for a reason and she would soon find out all the answers to her questions and get something she didn't expect. I hated that feeling that Garrett must of had being torn and not letting his real feeling towards Thersea show, due to his death of his wife. It made me feel horrible that Thersea was compared to someone that Garrett had up on a pedastool and she had to compete for his love. Knowing that thought she did know for one thing he definatly had alot of love inside.
When the time came for Thersea to go back home I was so afraid that this fairytale story just could not end now. I knew there was something sparking between them and Thersea knew it as well, althougt Garrett was still very skeptical. By Thersea leaving though it definatly made Garrett realize what was important, he knew he cared about her. Know he just had to make the decison on what to do about it. I definatly was hoping that Garrett would come out of his shell that he put himself in for whatever reason it might of been, but now that a new women has come along he needs to let her in. Which he definatly does when he starts doing his part and by doing this they begin to form a relationship. I think Thersea is like medicine she cured Garrett and gave him just the right dose of medicine, LOVE!!
When the time had come for Garrett to choose the past of the future, I was torn because I knew his love for Catherine, his wife, was undying but was he going to hold on that love forever and was he going to let Thersea in and share it with her. I was heartwarming knowing that Garrett definatly choose the right path he knew he could no longer hold on to Catherine and he didn't just forget about her but atleast put it behind him because like he said there has been only 2 women in his life he loved, Catherine and Thersea. This story definatly put me on the end of the seat becaue i was hoping Garrett would not let the past get the best of him and hold him back on something great, something he needed to get over the past that he couldn't let go. This tale could definatly be summed up by saying it was a story of a love lost and found.
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Summary: Sappy and Ridiculous
Review: Ugh - what an annoying book! My first Nicholas Sparks - this is my punishment for buying a book at the airport. Garret was so sappy - completely unrealistic and wholly unappealing. Theresa's character made no sense - she never thought he'd find out she wrote a column about him? DUH! The whole plot was just not well thought out. And the big surpise "twist"? Come on, it was so obvious. I know there is a wide audience for silly romance novels, I just wished this book had been marked as such so I could have stayed away from it....
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Summary: A wonderful novel that ends with a few tears...
Review: I am eighteen and read this book because I loved the movie. I absolutely loved this book! Eventhough I seen the movie, and knew the ending, the book was still touching and enjoyable. I would recommend this book to all ages.
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Summary: The epidemy of TRITE
Review: 'Message in a Bottle' has not one original thought, sentence, scene or idea. I'm amazed that anyone fell for the transparent and light-weight sentimentality of this book. Every passage is
predictable and all the characters are flat and unreal.I wished I could find one redeeming quality. This was by far the most amateur and trite love story I've read in years. Sorry, Mr. Sparks. You missed the mark in a big way.
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Summary: If you saw the movie - forget it...
Review: I'm not one to read a book - then see the movie kind of girl... But for anyone who has seen "Message in a Bottle," staring Robin Wright Penn and Kevin Costner - please forget you ever saw it. That story has absolutely nothing compared to the book. The book contains so much more of a story than the movie does. It's a wonderful story of Theresa and Garret who become romantically involved through a message that Garret sent to his departed wife, Catherine, at sea. Give me the book V.S. the movie choice any day and I'll always choose the book...Now how many 17-year olds will honestly say that? After I had finished reading Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks, I decided that I really really wanted to see the movie. The local video store didn't have the copy available so I said "What the hell?" and bought a copy. After watching it, I ended up questioning what was wrong with it. What a waste of $15 and gas money to get there. I was so completely dissapointed to say the least. The movie is based on the book, but - really, it lacks so much of the content that you can find in the book. I'm sure that if you compare the two endings, you'll find that you would have much rather read the book...Keep it up, Nicholas Sparks! You really know how to tug at our heart strings and give us a good cry! *CAN'T WAIT FOR "THE GUARDIAN"!!*
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Summary: Sappy romance, quality use of words
Review: Theresa Osborne may be the luckiest girl in the world. She may be the only girl ever having actually fallen in love with the other side of that mysterious bottle found in the lapping waves of the Atlantic.
A plot that may be too hard for those of us stiffled of our imagination to hear, much less believe, Sparks does enlighten his heavily-sopped novel with text as easy to read, and relate to, as every day conversation. In an end as perplexing as the entire plot itself, Sparks redeems himself with the knowledge that Theresa and her son Kevin live next door, her shady past is just like ours and why not dream for every romantic message in a bottle?
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