Message in a Bottle

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Summary: Somebody please kill me with a brick.
Review: Oh, dear God, the melodrama. The story was interesting until Sparks gets the main characters together, and then the story degenerates into what other readers have (accurately) describe as a soppy mess. Hearing this on NPR may put me off Radio Reader for good. I don't know how Dick Estelle can read this without cracking up.

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Summary: Nicholas Sparks knows how to read a Woman's heart.
Review: I find myself eager for Sparks next book! I feel I am somewhat behind the curve, as I read "The Notebook" about the time the "Message in a Bottle" was released in hardback. I bought "Message" in the airport on my way out of town. When I read a Sparks book, I become totally consumed! I am a romantic - I admit that and this author knows how to touch my heart. If only my husband could write letters like Garrett!! I was disappointed that Theresa published his letters, but more disappointed that she did not tell him up front! Regardless, it is truly a wonderful story. Perhaps a little impossible, but what's wrong with that? Garrett's dream (if you've read the book, you know the one I mean) made me cry out loud!!! I finished the book at midnight (against the advice of my friend!) and had to watch HGTV in order to get it off my mind! I will be Sparks fan from this point on.

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Summary: It was a different kind of love story.
Review: My mom told me to read it so I did. I thought it was a different kind of storyline, but neat. It was very romantic but,at times, predictable. And also very sad.

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Summary: Incredibly Bad. Don't Buy It.
Review: This guy obviously had only one good book in him. Characterization is horrid, voice uninspired, plot stupid.

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Summary: Emotionally-driven and his best yet!
Review: I have read both Nicholas Spark's books and this was his best yet. It is one that gives a ray of hope: you CAN indeed fall in love again. To me, the characters were credible- it's like I know these people. I felt for Garrett, tormented by demons of his beloved Catherine. I wrestled along with him. I understood Theresa's frustration of having to share him with Garrett's dead wife. I wait excitedly for his next novel!

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Summary: TWO WONDERFUL AND FULFILLING STORIES, MY HEART CRIED!!!!!
Review: I NEVER HEARD OF NICHALS SPARKS UNTIL A FRIEND AT WORK GAVE ME A "THE NOTEBOOK" TO READ. WELL I'M NOT ONE FOR SAPPY LOVE STORIES. BUT WHEN I STARTED THIS BOOK, I COULD NO LONGER PUT IT DOWN. EVERY CHANCE I HAD IT WAS READING THE BOOK. AT ONE POINT I WAS RIDING THE TRAIN TO WORK AND BROKE OUT IN TEARS WHEN I READ THE ENDING. THEN I BOUGHT "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE" ONCE AGAIN, COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!! MY HEART TRULY BROKE AND I CRIED AT THE VERY END (ALTHOUGH I WISH IT ENDED DIFFERENTLY) NEVERTHELESS, IT WAS A COMPLETE SURPRISE, BECAUSE I THOUGHT FOR SURE I HAD AN IDEA ON HOW IT WAS GOING TO END,INSTEAD I WAS IN FOR A COMPLETE SHOCK!. THANK YOU MR. SPARKS FOR TWO INCREDIABLE BOOKS, WHEN WILL THE NEXT ONE COME OUT???

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Summary: High hopes shattered.....
Review: Over all I enjoyed this book, I have read the Notebook, which was a beautiful lasting love story. This book, however left me feeling empty, I wasn't drawn closely enough to the characters to admire there depth of love or conviction towards one another. Something just didn't crab me to feel compassion for two lost souls. I hope one never lets money or success dictate one's true blessed gift of writting to allow to succomb to deadlines, wings of best sellers, I look forward to Nicholas's third book, I thank you for the Notebook, a work well praised and deserved.

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Summary: A refreshing love story in this day of sex , lies etc.
Review: Maybe it was timing... maybe it was my frame of mind... but this was a wonderful story of idealistic love which seems to be so lacking in the world today. The author's sensitivity is obvious throughout as it was in the Notebook. I didn't want it to end. Mostly I read Mystery novels, but for a change of pace I read "Message" and sobbed my way through it, wishing I had a letter written about me in that way.

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Summary: This novel sent me on an emotional roller coaster.
Review: Message In A Bottle by Nicholas Sparks is one of the most romantic novels ever written. This book sent me on an emotional roller coaster. After both having failed relationships, one due to death and another due to divorce, two people are brought together by what seems to be fate...My favorite quote from the book goes something like this, "There are winds in our life. Some gust with the fury of a hurricane and others barely fan one's cheek. It is these winds that carry us through life. You my darling, are the wind that I did not anticipate and you have guested with more fury than all others. You my dear are my destiny. A must read novel!!

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Summary: Sparks renews faith in the matters that truely matter.
Review: All too often we forget the things in life that truely matter the most. Author Nicholas Sparks takes us to that place in our own hearts and minds where we must examine our own existance. The charaters in his books 'The Notebook' and 'Message in a Bottle' are granted a three dimensional life complete with daily frustrations, family dilemmas, and scenes so well written we can see and smell them with littel effort. Bravo to Sparks for braving a world of cynics to prove not only once, but twice that people can be touched through the written word.