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Summary: Good book, but beware......
Review: I enjoyed Nicholas Sparks' other two novels very much. This book was very good, but you really need to have a positive outlook on life to read this. The first part of the book was like any other typical love story. In the middle of the book, you are brought into the present of the main characters in their seventies and eighties. the rest of the book drags a bit, and focuses too much on the feebleness of the two main characters. This is the part where you will need the whole box of kleenex. The end of the book made me feel happy for the main characters, but depressed about my own impending aging process and where it will someday lead. Believe me, you will feel like you need a prosac for the rest of the day. If Sparks focused a little less on the detailed aging process of the characters, I think this book could have been as much of a romantic heart-warming love story as his other two books.
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Summary: Terrible book
Review: This book really really really is one of the most terrible books I've ever read. I first read Message in a Bottle because the previous tenant of my apartment left it. And now I know why. I decided to give Sparks another chance with The Notebook, since it seemed to get such great reviews. I was very disappointed. First of all, the characters in both books are shallow, the dialogue is just retarded (worse than a first-date conversation). And not to mention the ridiculous similarities in both books. Both female characters must be from the family since they both experience serial orgasms during the 'height' of the love scene in the novels. Oh, and what about the fact that during the first romantic night characters from both books were 'surprised at how quickly they finished their beer'? I mean, the wording is almost exactly the same in both books. Did Sparks cut and paste? Granted that these are trivial details, but it shows Sparks' lack of imagination--hardly a novel... Please, Nicholas Sparks, go back to your drafts and produce something that won't result in me kicking myself for spending the money to buy the book and for wasting the time to read it.
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Summary: This novel is a bad soap opera in print
Review: This book is simply horrible. I hoped the story would match the warm feeling I got when I first picked up the hardcover edition and looked at the beautiful jacket. It never happened. Yes, the plot is mundane and predictable and the cliches are numerous and the dialog is shallow and unimaginative, but the overriding dissapointment for me was the consistent lack of depth in the characters. At the end of the story I still knew almost nothing about them. I found myself wondering if Mr Sparks will someday look back on this work and be embarrased, as I certainly was for him.I guess if you are one who is deeply moved by the plot, romance, dialog and characters of daytime television soap operas, this story may just satisfy you. If you don't fall into that category, I recommend you spare your time and money and save a tree by avoiding this book.
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Summary: The Notebook is the best novel I have read in a long time.
Review: A friend lent me this book to read and I could barley put it down. I would be up until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning reading. The Notebook is the best novel I have read in about 9 years. I just bought A Walk To Remember, and I can't wait to get started on it. The Notebook is the first book I have read by Sparks, and will continue to seek his work. If you are looking for a good novel to sit back, kick your shoes off, and enjoy then may I suggest this one!
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Summary: Wow what a book
Review: Two years ago my teacher recomended this book to me. After reading it. I convinced three other people. Now the total has reached twenty. I love this book I couldn't it put it down. Even after reading it five times. This book still has the power to make me cry.
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Summary: Powerful love story of time and age
Review: I just want to let the author know how he touched my heart with this love story. I could not put it down. I started it that evening and finished it at 2:00am. It was the most touching story. He has a way with words and details. It is a great love story but so sad that age comes to all but that true love will indure through it all. Thank you for this tear renching book that lets us know love is alive.
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Summary: Please return my $4.95 and four precious hours of my life
Review: Hideous drivel--trees died for this? I am shocked that so many people liked this book. I bought it in desperation at an airport and couldn't give it away afterwards. A child of ten could write a more compelling story. The dialogue is cliched and awful, the plot is a joke. Fans of this book, branch out! There are plenty of well-written love stories out there.
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Summary: This book was great , and I recommend it to everyone.
Review: To start off with I'm not much of a reader, but I had to read a novel for school. My teacher highly recommend this great book, and so did my mom, so I decided that maybe I should just start it and see if I liked it. Amazingly, I could not put this book down. I'm only 15 years old, with a very busy social life and I sat down and read this book over a period of only one weekend. The Note Book is filled with so much passion and romance. It wasn't hard to read but it was very intricate and creative. I told some of my friends about this book and I got about 3 or 4 people interested in reading it as well. The whole plot of this story is so sweet and compassionate. People that read this book will see the way that love is meant to be. This book has inspired me to read more love stories, and just to read more.
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Summary: The Notebook makes you wish love was really that deep
Review: The notebook is a romantic novel that will fulfill a woman's dreams, if her idea of the perfect guy is someone poetic, devoted, empathetic, and passionate. Noah, the main character, and narrator of a fraction of the story, is hardworking, considerate, and sensitive to a woman's desires and feelings. Even though Noah and his wife were young at heart when they met, they grow to be mature adults in two separate parts of the world. Mutual contact is not made over any of those years of separation, but one day the flame of young love burns down their paths again and severs their lives forever. Nicholas Sparks, the author of the Notebook, gives the reader a false sense of hope; that a guy as wonderful as Noah actually exists. At times I found myself wanting to meet Noah, and just talk to him. When I finished The Notebook and dried my tears, I wished I had not read it, just so I could read it again for the first time.
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Summary: Too romantic to be true!
Review: A love story for those who still believe that love can last a lifetime. Good reading for someone very romantic, but if you are a down-to-earth person, this book is definitely not for you.
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