The Notebook

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Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss twelve bucks goodbye.
Review: He's flat-stomached, broad-shouldered, narrow in the hip. She has soft rounded breasts and a flat stomach, emerald eyes, high cheekbones, even! Noah and Allie, hah! This is Barbara Mattel and GI Joe Hasbro. Even Lon is practically an anagram for Ke..., well, you know. At least the dog has only three legs. In the future, the author should try for a tad more idiosyncratic verisimilitude in his characters. Like maybe giving Allie three legs. If you want this book in six minutes, listen to Harry Chapin's "Taxi" on the Heads and Tales album. But, buy it here, since the Amazon folks were kind enough to let me, as Lon would undoubtedly say, "vent my spleen".

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Summary: Made-for-TV material with not enough to exceed an hour
Review: I'm not sure what the big deal here is especially knowing that this has been a popular best-seller. This is one (long) declaration of love that leads us to a non-existent crescendo. A disappointing, but thankfully short and easy read.

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Summary: I CAN WAX POETIC
Review: Oh, Jeez. I'd like some bread with my cheese

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Summary: A fully wonderful, riveting, and heart - warming book!!
Review: What can I say anyone that loves romance will fall in love with this book. Not to mention fall madly in love with the main character in the book, Noah Taylor Calhoun. He is a hopeless romantic, a southern poet, and a an ordinary man that loves Allie Nelson with all of his heart and soul. After 14 years of being seperated and 14 years of remembering the best summer of their lives, Noah and Allie are finally reunited. The love they feel for one other is overwhelming both of them. As they remember what it was like to know who your soul mate is and who you truly love. One things stops Noah from confessing his heart ache love for Allie.Which is the simple fact that Allie has come back to tell Noah that she is engaged.You find youself caught up in this whole plot this whole love story and unable to come up for air. When you find out that after all of this Allie has been struck down with Alzheimers diease and can't remember even her name yet alone the man she is in love with you start to really feel the emotions envelope you. Noah tryes with all of his might to try and get Allie to remember the way it was...the way they shared they love and compassion for one another by simply reading to her each morning from his notebook. Reading her a collecion of letters they wrote back and forth to each other during the years of their lives. YOu will be suprised, sad, happy, angry, and most of all you will want to love someone with that much honesty and realness as Noah loved Allie..and as Allie loved Noah back. This book is one that you will find yourself never wanting to put down and never wanting it to finish. I loved it and you'll love it too!!

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Summary: I've lent this book to everyone of my GOOD friends
Review: The Notebook kept my interest and I simply loved it.I read it in 1 day and could not put it down. I did the mistake by reading Message in a Bottle first, and had no more tears. I loved Notebook and highly recommend it to everyone I know and don't know.

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Summary: I couldn't put it down... literally
Review: For a woman growing up in the Wilmington area, this really hit home. Message in a Bottle, pictorialized how wonderful a southern romance can be. Nicholas Sparks is the only author that has ever been able to put all 5 senses on paper and made me feel like I was experience them. (even right down to the steaks) It is quite obvious that Nichloas Sparks has had the incredible opportunity to experience eastern North Carolina like I have. If there was anyway that one could bottle up the emotions that this book brought out of me, it would sell like hot cakes!

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Summary: I want my 5 bucks back!
Review: This was the most predictable, crappy piece of drivel with ridiculous characters. How many times can this dopey author have the characters say I love you. No climax, awful writing, left me angry I spent my five dollars on this instead of a Starbucks Tall Late'.

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Summary: Predictable, unbelievable, and unrealistic
Review: Adequately written for the general public, yet way over the edge for believability. Admittedly tugged at my heart strings, but also pulled my leg.

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Summary: A very realistic love story. It did happen.
Review: My mother gave this book to me and the meaning as not lost. It is a wonderfully simple true love story that is based on real people and real facts. It contains no artificial dialogues or classical style of text. Just real people. It played in my memory and danced on my heartstrings for months. Be advised though. It is not a book for the literary stuffed shirts. In fact, it is only for the breathing and those who truly understand what real love and passion are. The classically uptight will be very disappointed. And yes! There are real Noah's out there ladies, as well as stories like his. I should know, I married one.

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Summary: Breathtaking Love Story
Review: The Notebook is the best love story I have ever read. It only took me a day to read and I loved every minute. Never have I read true love described with such heartfelt sincerity. I would recommend it to anyone who has been touched by the gift of feeling passion, intensity, and heart-break.