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Summary: do not read this book
Review: I already wrote one review advising people not to buy the book. The writing is bad, the characters are boring, the story is trite. It is the second-worst book I ever read. The only reason it got 2 stars instead of 1 is that the final segment was somewhat charming. I explained why. People then proceed to accuse my review of being not helpful. It's not supposed to help decide TO buy the book, but NOT TO buy the book. It's a bad book, trust me! Are only positive reviews helpful ones? Look and see how many others wrote the same thing I did! I'm trying to save you a few bucks here. If you MUST read it, check it out from the library. Don't spend money on this crap. You want to read some good southern literature - read Lee Smith, Pat Conroy, Fred Chappell, numerous others. Stay away from Nicholas Sparks. He still has some maturing to do as a writer. The book reads like an *average* high schoolers creative writing assignment.
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Summary: Keep the Hankies Handy!
Review: For a wonderful story of love and devotion, I highly recommend THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks. The story, taken from the life of the author's wife's grandparents is the story of Noah and Allie who initially meet just before World War II. Most of the story is told in flashback as Noah is reading it to someone in a nursing home over 50 years after the initial meeting.This is so beautifully done but I must warn everyone to have the hankies ready!
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Summary: This is what true love is made of...
Review: This book stirred my soul. It will be a Christmas gift given to those I hold near and dear. I wish that it had been made into a movie as was Nicholas Sparks "Message In A Bottle".
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Summary: NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL
Review: this story is a love story not a romance novel. it is beautifully written. and touches the hearts of women AND MEN. anyone can and should read it if they want a glimps at true love. the best of all his work. but the others are wonderful too.
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Summary: do not read this book
Review: I looked up this book to review it because I think it's the worst book I ever read. No wait, that was the one time I read a Danielle Steele book. Anyway... The writing is like cardboard, dry and stiff, and that's how you leave emotionally. There is nothing engaging about the romance - which is the most unromantic love I've ever read about. It may have been a good story written by someone else. I give it 2 stars because the segment at the end is more engaging and touching, unlike the main bulk of the book, but still even that part should have been much better. Bad writing.
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Summary: What a bunch of sap!
Review: I thought this was one of the most over-written, overwrought books I've read in some time. Talk about saccharin-sweet! Yuck! I will give the author some credit for his description of living with someone with Alzheimer's. That was about the only credible part, in my opinion. I was glad this was a short book; otherwise, I would have flung it into a far corner with a foul oath!
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Summary: Noteworthy!
Review: Sparks presentation of this bittersweet love story really moved me. It has been a long time since a book like this has affected me. The story tells of Noah and Allie's summer experience when they were still teenagers and discovered love. Their parting was brought about by Allie's parents who thought that Noah was not good enough for their daughter. After more than a decade, Allie comes back to Noah to tell him that she is engaged to a prominent lawyer, yet is still drawn to Noah, her "dream". Sparks weaves this story fluidly. He descibes scenes and situations vividly that the reader sees himself in the story. A light, fast-read, beautiful love story.
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Summary: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks isbn 0446605239
Review: It's brings to people of all ages, thoughts of what will happen in there lives, and if not to make them aware of all the wonders of a lifetime. They may be sad or they may be happy. We aren't aware that others around us experience the same things in life that we experience. But we learn it is how we handle them that is important. Two of my special friends read this book and cried saying it is the best they have read. What an impression it makes on our lives.
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Summary: to fast, to desultorily and to shallow
Review: Actually I thought this would be a nice time-passer after seeing Message in the bottle and that for a second time I would be able to escape into emotional trip. But the story was too foreseen, caracters and whereabouts of story were similiar to that in Message. Again there was water, this time a river, and Allison is a painter as Catherine in MITB. There were to many similarity with MITB that this novel can stand fo itself and give something new and on the other hand that old romantic passion. I was specially mindful to letters, for a search of that little moments that MITB made my life more genuin. But those were nothing comparable to ones in MITB and though I read it in several hours it has left me a taste of a bitter orange. If you would like to read beautifull, subtile love story, try Herman Hesse's Gertrud
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Summary: Too Much Sugar, Not Enough Substance
Review: At the heart of this novel is a lovely and romantic story. However, a book needs more than a nice plot to make it a good read. Sparks seems unable to let his characters develop naturally. Instead, characters are introduced for the sole purpose of assuring the reader that the protagonist is a good and generous fellow, then quickly dropped. Add to this Sparks' bland narrative style and you're left with a story that feels hollow. This novel could have been so much more, but I finished the book feeling like I had been the victim of a cheap attempt to tug my heartstrings.
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