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Summary: An inspirational love story
Review: A wonderful story of love and life. If you recently had a hurtful and discouraging love experience this novel will melt your heart and rekindle your spirit. Message in the Bottle is full of emotion, human tragedy and exaltation. It is beautifully written and developed. I would strongly recommend this novel to anyone. (don't be discouraged if you saw the movie; it doesn't have an accurate presentation of the novel and is poorly done)
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Summary: manipulative junk
Review: I know this is an online book review but I thought maybe those of you who read the book might like to hear an opinion on the movie also. I love a good romance especially when I can share it with my wife, but manipulative "hollywood" trash like this just makes me angry. If you can't move your audience emotionally with good writing (script or novel) without killing off one of the main characters just for the sake of a good "tear-jerking" then you have no business writing period. The movie itself was better than the book but the ending left you thinking "What was the point?" Why would anyone lead it's audience on a journey about the triumph of love and overcoming pain and sorrow of a lost loved one only to kill them in the end? Manipulative and just plain stupid.
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Summary: Stupid stupid stupid
Review: This was one of the stupidest, most predictable books I've ever read! I hated it. Actually, I don't even know why I wasted the time reading it!
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Summary: Message in a Bottle...is there a hanky in the bottle?
Review: I thought this book was great! All the woman in my department read it, and everyday we came in discussing how late we went to sleep because we couldn't put it down. I can't believe that such a romantic story was written by a man...(sorry Nick) He truly captured love.
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Summary: A real tear jerker...
Review: When I picked up this book I didn't know what to expect. Nicholas Sparks has a way of bringing the emotions of his characters to the surface. You feel as if the events are happening to you. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys feeling, but be sure to have some tissue handy.
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Summary: Highly recommended.
Review: This is a very touching story with a suprise ending. I highly recommend it.They have made a movie of this that has just been released. My husband and I plan to see it the first of the week!!
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Summary: a story of true love - its confusion, tragedy and happiness
Review: A must read for the true romantic. You get caught up in the emotions of the characters and can feel your self in their place.
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Summary: The book was sappy and sophomoric and the plot dragged.
Review: When I picked up this novel, I was looking forward to a warm, romantic and intelligent story. I mean, Paul Newman, in my mind, stands for noble and classy tales. Before this, I trusted him. To be fair, I liked the initial premise of the story. But almost from the first chapter, things deteriorated into a banal, dull and completely inexplicable, illogical tale. The endless machinations, tortured thoughts, maudlin emotional upheavals of two people who basically had a very good thing going, was not believable to anyone who has ever had an actual problem. I wanted to slap both of them. The unexplained secretiveness of the characters, the endless emotional reunions, the twisted goodbyes,were so frequent and similar that one ran into the next. It was as if the author wrote to a tear-jerking formula and deliberately constructed the tome to elicit evenly interspersed gallons of reader tears, by repeating similar experiences over and over again with tiny, increasingly tragic, twists. The characters never learned anything and neither did I. The book purported to be poetry but it had no beauty.
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Summary: Best Book!!!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. I was hooked from the first chapter and couldn't put it down until the tear jerking end. I've never felt so connected or passionate to fictional characters, but they were memorable. It's too bad that it's not considered as good as The Notebook because after reading both, I thought it was much better!
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Summary: Dumb and predictable
Review: The writing is wooden and cliche-ridden and the story is so predictable that a 10 year old could guess what will happen next. I forced myself to finish it in preparation for seeing the movie (just because it was filmed in my state)and I am a fan of Paul Newman. The movie HAS to be better than this!
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