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Summary: Message in a Bottle
Review: This is the most fabulous book I ever read. I've read and loved all of Nicholas Sparks books. This book has mystery, romance, and then an unexpected ending. I'm not much of a reader, but after reading the first book Sparks put out, I was hooked on his books. I'm a romantic too, and his books all tend to lead to romantic relationships. Must read.
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Summary: Excellent, Excellent, Excellent
Review: Great read. Another book to read when the weather is bad and the kids are in bed. If you like unpredictable romance, then this is the book for you.
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Summary: I am hooked on Nicholas Sparks now...
Review: I admit it: I am a hopeless romantic. So of course this book was absolutely wonderful! Never have I cried this much reading a book. I've read some good books in my lifetime, but this one is the best yet. This is my first reading of Nicholas Sparks' novels, and I plan on reading more. :) Even though the last 1/2 of this book will tear your heart apart, it's a must-read for romantics like myself!
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Summary: An exellent book for young adults to read
Review: This cook is deffinatly not a waste of your time!! It is one of the best books that I have ever read.This book is ful of romance, and it is one that you can not put down.
The book is about a girl, named Treasa, who is strugling from a divorce with a man who was chaeting on her throughout their relationship. She works at the boston Times, and is a columnist. Shortly after teh divorce she gets really stressed out, and one of her good friends asks her to go on vacation with them. While they are on vacation, she is running throught the beach, when she finds a message in a bottle. The letter inspired her to meet the man who wrote the letter. treasa is determeined to find him, and get to know him, but is it love that will last forever, or wil something happen between the two of them that will seporate them forever?
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Summary: This book was great!!!
Review: I really love this book! I thought it was awesome. I had seen the movie version of it when the movie first came out, but I had forgotten what had happened. I read this book for an assignment, and I thought it was very good. I am not a person that usually cries over books, but this one really made me cry. I really like reading Nicholas Sparks's books. I think they are very well written. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone!
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Summary: Predictable, shallow, disappointing
Review: Message in a Bottle is mainly exposition-- long on melodrama and short on character development and genuine depth. The messages in the bottle that Teresa finds are supposed to provide the flesh and blood of their writer, Garret Blake. Instead, they are merely corny and cliched weepings of a shallow and maladjusted man. Teresa is no deeper. The love affair between Garret and Teresa is merely the set-up, by Sparks, for the tragedy. Garret never gets over the death of his wife, so of course he will have to die at sea--- his messages in bottles live on, of course. And then so does Teresa's message to the now-dead Garret. It's a novel full of glass bottles full of messages to dead people. Maudlin, sentimental, and predictable. In fact, the story is so shallow, no wonder Kevin Costner was picked to play the lead in the movie version.
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Summary: Hysterically funny!
Review: This goes almost to the very top of my list of the 10 worst books ever written! But it is SO bad that it becomes quite funny, so I would therefore recommend it as a comedy...of sorts.
I lost track of how many times Garret "collected his thoughts" and Theresa "replied coyly"--dozens surely. Did Sparks hire a neighbor child of 10 to ghost write for him? I ended up wanting to shoot both of them and put them out of their misery--Garret, you wimp, get a life! Theresa, you conniving manipulator, leave him alone!
I have a box of tissues, unopened, if anyone thinks they'll need it.
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Summary: I recommend it
Review: This is the first book by Nicholas Sparks that I have read. Basically it's about a divorced thirty something woman that finds an extraordinarily romantic letter in a bottle washed up on the beach. The letter was written by a man to his dead wife. She works for a newspaper, prints the letter, in time finds out who the letter writer is, where he is, and goes to meet him. The rest of the book is about the two of them, the relationship they develop, and the relationship with his deceased wife that he can't let go of.
Anyway... after I finished the book my mother in law read it. She loved it. Then we rented the movie. We both agreed the book was better.
So read it.. I'm going on MOnday morning to the library to check out more books by Nicholas Sparks. He's good.
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Summary: Breathtaking!
Review: I have read many books by Nicholas Sparks and this one, like the others, I couldn't put down! A story of love and loss, this is an absolutely wonderful book. I started reading it before bed to try to get to sleep and didn't end up putting it down until I was finished! Definately kept the tears flowing. A truely breathtaking story that shows the value of holding on to love, and also letting go when it is time. Wonderful! Must read!
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Summary: sad, boring and redundant
Review: I read A Walk to Remember and could not put it down. Yes, you will cry but it is worth it. It is a beautiful book. Next, I read A Bend in the Road. This was very good with a satisfying ending. I recommend the two above mentioned books. My last book by Nicholas Sparks was Message in a Bottle. The book goes on and on! First, you hope they break up. Then you think Theresa is a jerk and then you think Garrett cannot make a committment. Then when you aren't looking, the gut-wrenching ending hits you in the face like a bucket of cold water. I made the mistake of reading it prior to Christas and it was really sad. I didn't need to mourn and cry over the loss one of the characters. Wow! It was almost like the entire relationship wasn't worth the trouble since it was never going to work out. I would like to have a story written about Garret and Catherine...without the sad ending. If you are a fan, buy it. If not, read A Bend in the Road.
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