The Notebook

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Summary: Brilliant and touching
Review: This book was wonderful to read and to reflect upon. Better than Bridges of Madison County because it was based on a real life love. We should all be so lucky.

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Summary: Peuw! Peuw! Peuw! Peuw!
Review: This book stunk to high heaven.
Please! Who is supposed to believe these
paragons of virtue actually exist?
And exactly WHAT makes them the least bit
interesting? I found this book contrived
and phony, the characters
wimpy and shallow. I kept falling asleep as
I was reading this book. A painful read in all.

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Summary: Move over, Danielle Steel !!!!!
Review: As I found myself nearing the end of the book, I could feel my heart about to burst from my chest. It it brought sadness and tears, happiness and hope. Quick read for any taste.

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Summary: Wonderfully touching
Review: This love story definitely brought me to tears. After spending 1 1/2 years of reading self help, new age books, this was a nice diversion. You couldn't help but love Noah. He was strong, soft, and everything in between. His devotion and love for his wife was beautiful. The tragedy in their life was incomprehensible. This book was well written. I enjoyed reading it.

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Summary: I cried ...
Review: what a lovely story ... I stayed up reading the book from start to finish all in one sitting ... it is hopelessly romantic.

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Summary: A Christmas gift that fits all, Romantics that is!
Review: Christmas shopping was complete with the last purchases of "The Notebook". We included a copy of "The Christmas Cardinal" story from the Nov29-Dec 5 issue of TV Guide. This will also be included in the Nicholas Sparks Book Club info mailing packets. If interested just sent your request to my e-mail address. Happy Holiday Reading to All. Jo-Anne

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Summary: Call Matthew McConaughey's agent...
Review: Ok, so it reads a little like an ABC Sunday Night movie. Yes, it's not a "classic." But why do we read books in the first place? For an escape, to dream, to imagine, to be entertained. The Notebook delivers on all fronts. It's a one-sitting read, a great way to spend an evening -- and this is coming from a guy. Cynics and English professors need not apply. **Note to movie fans. Pray Keanu Reaves is busy.

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Summary: A silly book...
Review: Not much to say. A genre romance with a twist. How the sorts of books that are on the best seller list these days get there, I will never understand.

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Summary: For a good cry (hopeless romantics only)...
Review: My husband was worried when I hadn't stopped sobbing for several minutes after I closed the book. He is reading it now and, while he hasn't shed a tear yet, seems to be enjoying it. The book is an easy read, no doubt. But I resent the comparison to "The Bridges of Madison County" - which I consider sentimental trash about someone who risks what she has in a good marriage for a torrid little affair with a drifter (actually, it would've been a much more interesting book had it been presented that way!). The characters in "The Notebook" are at least responsible - to each other and to those around them. The angle of the Alzheimers is the story, not the relatively simplistic romance.

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Summary: Simply the worst
Review: I cant' believe I could read something worse than the Bridges of Madison County. Nothing is believable in this novel. I still wonder how the author could come up with that stupid end (without that it could have deserved a rating 2). There is more to love than sex, mr. Sparks, especially (and hopefully) after your hair starts whitening.