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Summary: It was the most amazing love story I have ever read.
Review: I though it would be the run of the mill love story. Was I ever mistaken. From the very beginning, Sparks held my heart in the palm of his hand.
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Summary: I know this kind of love and wish it for my daughters
Review: I have read the Notebook several times and each time I fall deeper in love with my husband. Nicholas Sparks has put into words the love I feel for my husband and the love I feel from him. A must read. I think of this book often. I have extra copies to give to my daughters when they grow up!
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Summary: Sweet....
Review: The book was romantic and touching, although also a bit trite and simplistic. The general theme makes it an incredible story.
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Summary: Buy it, someone will love it.
Review: Primarily, upon listening to the tape I quickly discovered a lack of story continuity along with strained believability character wise - secondly the word drawings became tangled, and then a bit sticky - thirdly I had to make a decision... finish the tapes or turn on the car radio. If you knew our local stations it would be perfectly clear why I continued with the tapes. The story, plot, characters, etc... may be thin but a strange ambiance enshrouds the very pretty story the further one bears into reading/listening. I understand the strong positive attraction of many to the story and also the strong rejection of others giving a spread of 1 through a very strong 10 rating. A bit of quick math and a simple means applied to the results and the book wins very easily. Look for the mediums in the ratings by the readers reviews. There are so few that they are nonexistence. Many readers review screens pages downs of ratings in the 10's, then one or two ratings of 1's. Something powerful is happening here. It is called "A successful piece of prose". No matter the writer's style or seemly lack of prose ability, the popularity remains. So those with a rating of 1 with gnashing teeth, spittle flying and stamping of feet will not change any of those tens. If these ratings are any indication, the 1 givers are in for quite a shock at their next book club meeting. If you like straight forward, old clichés, (sometimes I do), feeling twisting, tear pulling writing with a basically pure non-knee-jerk nerve jangling story line, get the book. You may like it. If you don't, there should be some twenty odd people in your immediate vicinity that will love it. --This text refers to the cassette edition of this title.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Sparks tells a wonderful story that seems so real. The words that Sparks write paint a beautiful story in you mind. It's a book that you can't put down until you know what happens to the two lovers. You feel each characters pain, happiness, and want. Just seeing the cover of the book or hearing the title makes my heart skip a beat and brings a tear to my eye! I recomend this book to anyone that is in love, wants to be in love, or who has seen love.
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Summary: Heart touching story made my Day
Review: I found the Notebook to be a touching heart warming story. After the plodding read of Cold Mountain by Charles Fraizer it was good to read a book that at least used quotation marks. I thought Mr. Sparks did an excellent job of conveying what the characters were feeling. I loved this book and I don't really care much for Romance novels. I certainly would not put it in the same category as the Danielle Steele drivel that other reviews have. Maybe some readers need to take off their jaded glasses and give this one another read.
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Summary: Were there such things as tea bags in 1946?
Review: I really like a good love story and I usually find that the books that make me cry are some of my favorites. Somehow The Notebook falls far short. I question the accuracy of the time period. I think perhaps Mr. Sparks interjected too much into his grandparents' love affair, equating it with what a modern day affair might be.
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Summary: Touched My Heart
Review: What is it with the reviewers who trashed this book? Have you not one romantic bone in your heart? This book is honest about what it is - a story of two people who find each other again and have the courage to let their love guide them instead of giving in to external forces wanting to keep them apart. By taking a risk and honoring their love, they have almost half a century together of a love that is rare and precious and beautiful - through good times and tragic ones as well. Is this book full of action and suspense and mystery? No. Is it chock full of witty dialogue? No. Sparks has told his story simply (for which he has been unjustly criticizecd) and beautifully. Often the best told stories are the ones told without the reader needing a thesarus by their side to decipher the author's overblown prose. To see the love Noah has for Allie in her illness along with the pain he goes through at her deterioration is is heartbreaking. I liked this being told from the man's point of view. As far as Allie having moments of lucidity due to Noah's love, I have seen stranger things happen in the years I have worked in the helping professions. Sparks never tries to say real love will cure this horrible disease, he is just saying that soul deep love can perform all kinds of miracles - even if only for a brief time. I would have liked to see their reunion and some of the years with their children. I still give this book a ten, though because it touched my romantic heart. For those of you that want "literature", get a reading list from your nearest high school's English Lit class. For those of you that want "realism", read the newspaper. And, yet, there are those of us that know love like Allie's and Noah's does and can exist - some of us are living it now. I feel really sad for those of you that do not have this in your lives and can not bear to read it in a book.
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Summary: ABSOLUTLY WONDERFUL!
Review: THIS BOOK HAS TOUCHED MY SOUL.IT GIVES HOPE AND SHOWS THAT LOVE CAN SURVIVE.
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Summary: Pulled at my heart strings - loved it!
Review: I read the reviews of the other readers and I can't believe the criticism people gave this book. Lighten up people! It's just an enduring love story...if you read the inside of the cover you would have gotten the jist of what it was about and saved yourselves the time...I myself, enjoyed it for what it was! Just a touching love story.
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