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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks is a beautiful love story that breaks your heart. In the novel, Noah is a man of honor and integrity who fights in a war. His heart belongs to his young love, Allie, a girl from a well-to-do family. The story is written like a diary taking the reader back to the days of their childhood romance and forward to the trials of present day. If you have ever known love and let it slip away, this story will touch your heart and inspire your belief in fate and love. Also recommended: THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez
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Summary: First Novel For Sure
Review: Since first novels only introduce us to the writing abilities of their authors, it is no surprise that this novel propelled Sparks onto a prolific writing career, with much better novels. The Notebook will tear at your heart strings, despite its slow pace and failure to touch upon the events that shaped the characters...these teens appear to have never grown up, even though Noah was shipped off to war. Such harrowing experiences should have hardened his character, but there is no evidence of that in his reunion with Allie, which disappointed this reader, since it is unrealistic that the experience had no bearing on his future character or his relations with others. Though it is a first novel with many trite plot lines, I will recommend it for those seeking romance and happy endings.
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Summary: Read Sparks!
Review: This book is wonderful. The best fiction I've ever read! I recomend all of Sparks' writings. He is simply the best. The Notebook is however, his crowning achivement.
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Summary: Over-edited and too clipped, but still good!
Review: This novel is too short for the reader to become involved and sufficiently engrossed enough in the story. With romances, and especially a romance that spans over 50 years, the reader needs time....and text. There are too many ideas that have been cut-off for the sake of editing, as Nicholas Sparks readily confesses. In all fairness, this was Nicholas Sparks first novel, and he did feel pressure to bring it in under a certain amount of pages....which may have suited his publishers and editor, but leaves the reader very unsatisfied. In general, when you are spanning the decades in a sweeping romantic saga, you cannot put the story into one of the shorter novels, without ideas becoming half-expressed and squelched, and there are many half-expressed thoughts that the reader longs to be fleshed out more, especially when the characters are so memorable and the story so touching. Whole chunks of time are missing and glossed over, leaving a feeling of incompleteness. I can make allowances due to this being Sparks, first novel. And, I am looking forward to the sequal "The Wedding" which is currently in publication. What's good here is the love between the two senior citizens, even though there aren't enough scenes of it. The book drags a bit through the first part, until you get to the part where they are seniors and absolutely cannot put it down. I just wish that would've been the whole part, or significantly more. Not enough authors focus on senior issues, or even whether seniors' romantic love is just as valid as young love. The fact that Nicholas Sparks was willing to delve into this is wonderful, and he beautifully captures the feelings of the elderly in love. I just hope the sequel to the "Notebook".....the current "The Wedding" , by Nicholas Sparks, fills in some of the gaps that were edited out here.
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Summary: An Emotional Journey
Review: Highly recommend. It made me realize our life is not a stage rehersal, it happens daily. We must not let today slip by without grasping what truly matters....
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Summary: best modern day romantic novel yet!!!
Review: I finished this book in three hours and cried most of the way through. I simply could not put it down and still get teary eyed thinking about Noah and Allie. This is a must read for anyone who has ever been in love or looking for true love. Anyone can relate to this story in one way or another. It leaves you with a fresh outlook on life and a renewed understanding of what is important in this world. Love never fails...
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Summary: Longlasting Love
Review: One of my favorite books, especially the audio version using narrators with soothing southern accents. Sparks proves all over again that love can be enduring and exciting at the same time. Bittersweet story that'll stay in my memory for the rest of my life.
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Summary: Captures the Heart
Review: No, this book is not for people who love violence, [physical activity], and fast action. This book is for the tender hearted. It is about loyalty, something sorely lacking in this world today. Loyal-love. Nicholas Sparks has a problem with going on and on sometimes in his books - finish the book, it's already been said! But you excuse that with the Notebook. You really don't want it to end. And you leave the book wishing that there were more such stories in the real world.......... To really appreciate this book you should listen to it on tape or CD. The readers do a great job and make it come alive more...like having someone read to you. I loved this book...
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Summary: Fab love story that will make you sigh and cry........
Review: I was not a reader of Nicholas Sparks but I picked up this book for a quick read at the beach.... Once I started the first chapter the pressure started building behind or on top of my chest and the tears welled in my eyes until I read and cried for two full hours. I couldn't put this book down it was so good. Sometimes a girl just needs a good cry and this is the book to give it to you. I cried for Noah's happiness, his loss, his pain, his regret, his kindness, and most of all for his simple love of one woman. This is a story of love lost and found. You absolutely can't help but fall in love with Noah and Allie. A wonderful book. I wish I could say I will buy and read all of Mr. Sparks books but I am not sure my husband can take me crying from cover to cover.
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Summary: One of my all time favorites!
Review: Such a great book! Makes you cry and laugh! MUST READ!!
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