The Notebook

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Summary: disapointing
Review: I read this book first and then reda spark's other book, Message in a Bottle, and the two hardly compare. The ending really got slow and I lost interest. The way the book anded really just brought down what I thought of the book. But the search for true love rings aloud over the whole book so that made it tolerable.

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Summary: Way Too Syrupy
Review: What a bunch of sticky, gooey, syrupy drivel. Nicholas Sparks is a talented writer, but I'd like to see him employ his skills on a meatier story. This book is hugely successful, and I think that speaks for his WRITING as opposed to his choice of story. For truly gripping reading, turn to Uris, Vidal, earlier Follett, Kingsolver, etc. Sorry, Nick!

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Summary: In all ages this book is a perfect winner
Review: This book can touch your heart even if yours is a heart of stone. Nicholas Sparks's book can make you cry like a true believer of Allie. You read one line of this book and your heart will fill with memories and saddness and your eyes will fill with tears.

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Summary: What a waste of time!!!!
Review: This book has been written a thousand times before Mr Sparks was even born. It's such a common love story, a 12 year old could have written it. You don't even care about the characters because you don't get to know them, and every word is a deja-vu of third rate romance novels. Thank God it's so short!

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Summary: Absolutly outstanding
Review: This has got to be one of the best book I have read. The love and caring of the two people in the book is amazing. Nicholas Sparks is a wonderful writer that has a great ability to make you feel what the characters are feeling.

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Summary: A BOX OF KLEENEX WON'T BE ENOUGH!!!
Review: I love it!!!! It's just one of the few books that touches ones heart tremendously! Nicholas Sparks is such a great writer and I can't wait for his next novel. I read this before Message In a Bottle and I couldn't help but think of the love that lasted between Noah and Allie. I had to read it again after Message. I even recommended it to all my friends here and in the Philippines! It is so great and very romantic, yet is so simple. It makes me cry and will make everyone else cry as well, even after you have managed to set the book down!!! I just love this book and I've added it to my short list of favorites!!! Highly recommended for people who are in love, been in love, and want to be in love!!! Don't forget those BOXES of kleenex!!!!

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Summary: A novel never had such an emotional impact on you before.
Review: Nicholas Sparks reaches a part of your heart that real life can not, he branches your imaginations of true love in The Notebook. Until you read it, True Love does not esceed the level of psuedo moral talk shows and soap operas, and sour topics on Ricki Lake and Oprah. The pages of my book are wilted and bent and dried up from so many tears I have cryed into the pages time after time I have read it. There has never been such a book that has had such an impact on me, well on the side of The Giving Tree.

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Summary: A Heartwarming Story!!!
Review: After reading Message in a Bottle I felt that I had to read this book. My heart was genuinely touched by the story and the inspiration behind it. I recommend this novel very highly. This book will truly make you believe in the true love that lasts forever. I can't wait for the next novel by Nicholas Sparks.

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Summary: It was outstanding!! It made my heart skip a beat
Review: I found the story to be a wonderful heart warming novel. I could really relate to the feelings of the characters. There honesty with each other. There true feelings of closeness and the way they both loved each other so deeply. Like Nicholas Sparks mentioned, "Marriage these days just doesn't seem to last" it's extremely sad. This book was special to me because the characters had a true passion for each other which lasted a lifetime. For better for worse till death do them apart.I pray that Nicholas Sparks will keep writing such wonderful books that just take my breath away. I have never read any other books which touch my heart so deeply. It really fills that place in my heart that I always wished for. (everlasting true love). I really wish people could cherish love the way Allie & Noah did in the novel. What a great gift in life to be able to have. Life is all what you make of it. It was also inspiring to hear that Nicholas's wifes grandparents had lived such a wonderful journey in life together. May God bless them always.

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Summary: Written by someone who has truly been in love once
Review: None of the reviews so far have included my favorite passage from the book: "But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. Ant it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect." This passage was written by someone who has truly been in love once. I know, because I too have been in love once, a long time ago, and, even though it didn't work out, it changed me forever. There was no reason for the main character, or me, to try again. Nothing else could ever be that perfect. Real love, even if only once, is enough.