The Notebook

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Summary: Simple love story
Review: This is a simple love story. A true tear jerker, I admit. I was crying so hard at the end I couldn't see the pages. This is not a book to be analyzed, (I agree with the others), it is just a book to enjoy.

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Summary: a beautifully sad love story
Review: left me with a great feeling which I cherish.

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Summary: The epitome of romance
Review: I kept thinking that I couldn't believe this romantic heartfelt story was written by a man. I did ponder Noah's manliness and Allie's womanliness. Fourteen years ???? But I kept with it to the bitter end and it was. If these two elderly people could have recognized each other, caressed and departed this life together spiritually it would have been a great culmination of two lives woven together. Instead, we have a nauseating picture of two elderly decrepit people in mind and body looking for sexual fulfillment. I guess love equals sex to Mr. Sparks and he is too young to understand the altruistic love and feelings that the elderly can possess. He's missed a lot. Corny ending. Maybe only the great know how to end a good story.

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Summary: The Best Love Story in a long time...
Review: This book is beautiful. I have just finished reading it for the second time, and am amazed at all the info I missed! The bond between Noah and Allie is amazing and shows the power of true love. I was more than satisfied with the development of characters and believe that Nicholas Sparks only wrote the information he felt needed to be shared. Sometimes you dont want the writer to tell the "Whole Story" because then you can think of your own details in your head. When the story takes a turn into the lives of the older characters I was sad to see that all they had shared was gone... yet in some supernatural way BOTH could remember it. This is definitley a classic Love story.. not a romance but a love story none the less. It is Beautiful, and you have to truly understand it to appreciate its deeper meaning. It is short, but sweet, and captures your attention immediatley. Read this book, and have tissues ready!!!

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Summary: An utter waste of intellectual time
Review: Sparks' book is trite, predictable and completely one dementional. Granted, I love the idea of true love and its ability to survive in modern times, but I also read for enriching dialogue, convincing charaters, and original thoughts into matters that so many authors have already contemplated. This book just doesn't cut it.

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Summary: Best quality of love...
Review: When I closed the book at the end of the page, my eyes were in tears. When my grandfather was suffering from Alzheimers, my father was telling me that it is a gift from a god to be able to go back to his childhood before his final day. I read this book in Japanese because the expression was so beautiful, and now I am trying it in English. It is also touching emotionally as it did in Japanese. Beautiful book! Don't miss it!

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Summary: Better than The Bridges of Madison County!
Review: Anyone who has feelings will love this book. This is simply a great story from beginning to end. Noah's love for her is so pure, every woman should be so lucky. I am so tired of readers who think every book must be analyzed to death. Sparks didn't write this story so it would be picked apart; he wrote it to entertain. And that is exactly what it does! Read it today. If it doesn't break your heart a thousand times I am sorry for you.

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Summary: OH, TO BE LOVED LIKE THAT!
Review: TOO SAPPY? Well, I guess if your self-involved, self-centered, living totally in the ME generation, taking no thought for others except for what you can GET from them, then yes, I guess it would seem alittle sappy. But TRUE LOVE is what this story is really about, it's not just here when the times are good, or when it's only good for you, it's for the long haul, to the end of that life, even when it's fading and far away. I loved every word, was swept away by every loving gesture and watched my husband cry as he read it to me. THANK YOU NICHOLAS!

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Summary: Nicholas Sparks must have a great agent and publicist.
Review: After skimming through the 189 or so reviews I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought this book was a total waste of time. Luckily, I got it at the library (sorry, amazon.com). Trite, poorly developed, unrealistic are mild terms for this poorly written book. Skip it, folks, and read some Anne Tyler.

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Summary: Staying In My Heart
Review: I cryed from beginning to end! It is a wonderful story.