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Summary: Why don't they offer 0 stars as a rating?
Review: Want to be a writer, but think you have no talent? Read Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook. It will inspire you to pick up a pencil and write a new bestseller. That this sappy, predictable, pathetic attempt at writing became a bestseller speaks volumes about the American reading public. High school students can out-write this man. Save your money. Don't even get it at the library, life is too short.
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Summary: Poo poo to the naysayers!
Review: I thought this book was an excellent love story! A fast read that I read on an airplane while flying across the country. It captured my heart and that's what's important to me. I think most people would love this story!
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Summary: The Most Amazing Love Story You Will Ever Read
Review: "The Notebook" is the most amazing love story I have ever read. I'm not usually one for those sappy love novels, but this one is quite different. It proves that true love can beat all odds, no matter what they are. It also gives a good insight to the aging process, and a very accurate account of Alzheimer's Disease. It was a very quick read. Once you start it, you won't be able to put it down until you have finished.
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Summary: Romantic entertainment
Review: A light romantic book that should be read in one sitting with a glass of favorite wine. Just an enjoyable experience. I want to marry either Nicholas Sparks or D.M. Roman (the author of Fried Calamari who shows great insight into a woman's mind).
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Summary: SHAME ON WARNER!
Review: Gimme' a break! What a horrible commentary on the state of letters when a book like this actually becomes a bestseller. Trite, sappy, poorly written, worse than the worst "romance." Next to Sparks, LaVyrle Spencer is Tolstoy -- REALLY! Shame on the publisher for publishing the book, promoting it like crazy to an unsuspecting public, then taking our money for it. It's simply not worth reading. Don't bother.
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Summary: Entertaining read
Review: The love story in this book is touching, and even though it is written to pull at your heart strings, it's also believable. It's nice to have a story that is not cynical about true love
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Summary: The only love story I will ever want to read!!!
Review: I am not much of a reader. I can read, and love to when I do it but I don't make a good habit of it. This book was suggested to me by a "friend" in the midst of a unusual relationship. Love stories usually conjure up in me trashy romances. NOT THIS ONE! This love story is true and pure. It talks of commitment, choice, and lasting love. It talks of how marriages and families and children should be. It speaks to the heart and the mind. In reading this book, it has not only helped me understand love and life better, but has saved what I thought was a failed marriage. I owe my marriage and the sure future of it in part to Nicholas Parks. It has given me the mature understanding of love I have ever had, and has allowed me to re-unite us in a way that couldn't have been done before. I have recommended this book to EVERYONE. If I have my way, it will be back up on the charts again! After loaning this book to someone in Canada, I am getting another copy for my wife to read. Thanks!
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Summary: Notebook revisited
Review: What intrigues me is the number of five-star reviewers who seem to think that folks like me who dislike this book are hopeless, heartless cynics who have obviously never been in love. I might gently suggest that a lot of these reviewers are confusing giddy teenage infatuation with the idea of being in love to real, mature love. Mature love is not about magically finding your one "soulmate" (to use the currently fashionable blather) among the six billion on this planet. (We're supposed to give up Santa and Cinderella at eight.) Rather, it is about caring, willful commitment to people we occasionally can't even stand. If, as a number of reviewers have suggested, this book represents deep insight into the "true heart of a woman", the feminists must be beyond despair, and there are going to be a lot of disappointed lives out there.What escapes a lot of enthusiasts for this book is that the author is essentially telling the poor drudges over at Iowa Writer's to forget their MFA's; if you want to be a successful (as opposed to great or even good) writer, get your MBA-marketing. Ironically (admittedly a distant concept to this author), that is exactly the advice philistine Lon would give Sensitive Poet Noah, while Allie sulks petulantly downstage right. Now, that's cynicism!
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Summary: Toothache sweet
Review: The story is so sentimental that readers should make a dental appointment on page one. The cookie-cutter characters march through calendar scenery with predictable results.
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Summary: sappy
Review: Poorly written. Sappy. The worst book I've ever read
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