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Summary: Suspend disbelief, relax and enjoy
Review: If you allow yourself to suspend disbelief and just sit back and enjoy the book, I think you will find it enjoyable and entertaining. After FRIED CALAMARI, this is the most entertaining book I've read this year.
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Summary: A heart warming (and crushing) romance
Review: This was the most incredible novel I have ever said. I cried my eyes out over the enchanting love story portrayed. Others with whom I shared the book told me they thought it was very predictable, and consequently not a tear-jerker. I don't understand how the romance was predictable- the story kept me on the edge the whole way through (which, by the way, only took a day because I couldn't put it down!). A great read, much better than the movie.
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Summary: Bravo!!!
Review: This book was by far the most moving book that I have ever read...the only book that has ever made me bawl my eyes out! MUCH BETTER THAN THE MOVIE!!!!!!
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Summary: Wonderfully entertaining and a must read book.
Review: Message in a Bottle is a heart-warming love story. Theresa and Garrett are the characters in a perfect love story for the 90's. Once I began reading this book, I didn't want to put it down. I was surprised by the ending. Now I must see the movie with plenty of tissues in hand.
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Summary: Flat and contrived
Review: The story had a lot of potential, but the characters were not developed and the plot was contrived. Thoughts and emotions were described in "5 words or less", jumping forward, skipping the "meat". I was disappointed with this "bestseller". For excellent writing, try "One True Thing" by Anna Quindlen. She knows how to tell a story and put you in the shoes of characters.
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Summary: The literary equivalent of a 2X4 to the skull.....
Review: this alleged "novel" (I use the word lightly in the case of this endless stream of cliches, hollow banalities, and predictable "twists") has no redeeming qualities whatsoever outside of convincing me that the American public have lost their ability to distinguish writing from chicken scratch. Why would women like this book so much? Are they that lonely? Would they really enjoy meeting a man so unable to get over himself? This book is an ode to narcissism if anything, and it will drive cynics even harder to rip to shreds any and all attempts at romance fiction in the future.
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Summary: Pleasantly surprised how quickly I was drawn into the book.
Review: It was great to find a book that completely took me away to another place while I was reading. The book read easily, was romantic and certainly had a different ending than I anticipated. Found myself teary-eyed at the end of the book and left with a warm feeling.
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Summary: Kudos to Sparks.....can't wait for the next one
Review: The story of Theresa and Garrett touches each of us wherever we are in our lives. One time or another we have felt the recovery from Garrett's loss and the longing of Theresa's to be truly loved. It was one of the best books I've read and have passed it on to a friend. Ever since, The Notebook, I have been hooked on Sparks and can't wait until his next book.
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Summary: TOUCHES THE SOUL..
Review: Messgae In the Bottle has got to be one of the best novels i've ever read. It was just so touching, so warm..something you could relate to.. many found it unrealistic and Garrett annoying...but it just shows us true love...it shows us that when you really love someone you love them forver..no matter what...though..yes,after a while you do learn to go on with life...and Garett does realise that in the end doesn't he? when he finally writes his last letter to catherine...knowning it was her that did send the bottle to Theresa. "who do you think sent that bottle to her?" Its ending did make me cry though...but it also showed us that life doesnt always go the way we want it to, right? I thought it was just lovely. Everything about it was just perfect....a must read.
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Summary: Oh please....
Review: I have to admit, though the dialogue was a bit stilted and at times simplistic, I was initially involved with the story though the characters were somewhat one-dimensional and behaved with a sterotypical precitability. The "ups" of the relationship were fun to read - the equivalent of a good beach book - but the "downs" of the relationship were terribly overwrought and difficult to wade through b/c of their lack of believability. Even with all this, though, I could have nodded at the end of the book and understood what it is that "everyone is talking about." But the absolutely stupid "twist" at the end just made me feel completely manipulated. If they are wise, they will change the end in the movie, but I cannot justify wasting any more money on this story to find out.
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