Message in a Bottle

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Summary: Very good romance novel
Review: when i first started reading this book i cried so hard. i had been reminiscing about the past of mine.message in a bottle will sure fill your heart up. ladies out there dont just go for one man. fish from every dock. if you know what i mean. when she started joggin on the beach it reminded me of when i was 4.

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Summary: Message Sinks
Review: Sparks' "Message in a Bottle" makes for dreary reading. His imagery is extremely dull and trite at best. He fails miserably in his attempt to capture the intense emotions (if any) between the main characters. Without defining the essence of the characters, all sense of emotion is suspended and evenutally lost, making it difficult for the reader to relate to the characters. From beginning to end, the characters are as bland as the boring lives they lead. The story moves along, unambitious and undetermined, just like the characters situated in this story. This is one "message in a bottle" that should have stayed in the bottle.

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Summary: Trite, Contrived and Boring, Boring, Boring
Review: Message in a Bottle started out beautifully. I was enthralled...for about one chapter. Before I knew it, this book was sailing across the room towards the trash. One of the worst books I have ever read. The dialogue was contrived, the characters unbelievable, and annoying. Don't waste your money.

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Summary: cry...cry...cry...
Review: I just finished reading the book and couldn't stop wondering "what if.." The book was wonderfully written including the content of the letters. I wish though the ending would have been more of a happy one and not something like the trend of The Horse Whisperer. But then again I still loved it.

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Summary: Try the postal service next time
Review: I found Message in a Bottle to be an easy read which was not quite believable. I think if Theresa loved Garret as much as she claimed she could have found a solution to bridge the miles between them. I thought it was really heartless of her letting the poor guy chase her in the car like that begging her to listen. Consequntly, my sympathy for her was a bit diluted in the end. As for that I found it almost laughable that Garrett would risk life and limb simply to through a bottle in the ocean to a dead woman he wants to put behind him.Think about it he could have gone the normal route and used the postal service.

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Summary: a must read
Review: I just finished reading "Message in a Bottle" and can't seem to stop thinking about the book. It was a great book and I finished it in less than a day. I couldn't seem to put it down. The ending was so surprising, I was shocked but it made the book more memorable. If you like The Notebook or Bridges of Madison County, you're going to have to get this book

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Summary: Heartwarming
Review: Not since "Bridges of Madison County" have I read a book that can stir the emotions of the heart the way "Message in a Bottle" does. It is a story of hope,love and inspiration and has renewed my faith that it is never too late to find true love. It will make you stop and think about the people in your own life that you may take for granted. We only live one life-that we know of. This novel reminds us how precious that life really is. I could not put it down.

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Summary: I HAVE NEVER WEPT SO OPENLY AT A BOOK
Review: As I started reading I needed something to fill my time, 7 hours later, the book was finished and tears spattered my shirt. Theresa and Garrett are two people who could have easily been my friends, and I found myself giving them advice, that of course, was never taken. This is only a book for truly romantic people who believe that somewhere there is such a thing as true love, and that once we have loved so deeply, we are able to do so again.

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Summary: 284 Online Reviews?! What else is there to say?
Review: I can't believe that I stuck it out with this book. I promised myself I would finish the book before the movie came out so I guess that was my motivation. I will definitely see the movie since Costner is in it. As for the book, save your time and money and check out the movie instead. This book had screenplay written all over it and was so poorly written I can only guess that the publisher was banking on the name Sparks. It begged for rewrites and the author uses the same cliches over and over again. He also can't write from a woman's perspective to save himself. I hope the dialogue is seriously improved in the movie. Unlike others, I didn't mind Garrett, but Theresa was a joke and a half. The story is too much of a ripoff of Sleepless in Seattle without the Ephron touch and a believable female lead. I gave this book one star for the story alone which in better hands could have been quite compelling. Sparks, take your money, count your blessings and run. Do us all a favor and not hack out a new book.

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Summary: Fuss about nothing
Review: Friends of mine loved this. I thought the premise was kind of cute, though far-fetched, but the book went on and on, badly written (which was fortunate, because I found I could skip wide swaths of the really mediocre dialog and not miss a thing, managing to blow through it in only a couple hours). I can't figure out how the two main characters fell so in love based on the really banal conversations they had from start to finish (a case of serious physical chemistry, I guess). I felt like I was reading the sort of awful dialog that I might have written myself had I made the mistake of trying to write a book. Overall, not worth the time. Maybe the movie will be better, but I don't think I'll feel a big need to see it.