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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Nicholas Sparks has written another incredibly emotional tug-of-war of a novel. He is the master of the modern romance and one of the best male romantic authors around. He reaches a woman's heart the way D.M. Roman (the author of Fried Calamari) reaches a woman's mind.
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Summary: Just a warm evening read, nothing exciting.
Review: I loved the movie "Message in a Bottle" but didn't read the book. I purchased and read "A Walk to Remember" and it was okay. My girlfriend ordered "The Resue" from her book club, and she loaned it to me. I read half of it on Friday afternoon, then finished it Saturday night before going to bed. I would have to say that Sparks did do his homework when he wrote about the speech problems of the little boy, Kyle. It's always good to know that a writer does his reseach well. I kept reading the book until it was finished because I wanted to see what Taylor McAden's problem was. I think I almost had it all figured out from the start, but I never second guess the plot of a writer's novel. I read it through and then make up my mind about the story. I've read better books than "The Rescue", but I have read a lot worse. I think Sparks is talented and I will probably read his next novel. One thing we don't have to second guess about Sparks, he's writing his novels himself and not spitting out ten or twelve novels a year, like some authors claim to be doing.
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Summary: New Nicholas Sparks Reader
Review: This is the first Nicholas Sparks book that I have read and I must say, I am Hooked! It has been a very long time since I read anything that actually made me feel something. It is very moving and let's just say, have the kleenex handy. I agree with another reader who was dissapointed in the sex outside of marriage between the two principle characters, but was impressed that he did not need to go into great details about what went on between them. That is why we have imaginations. I would still recommed this book to anyone who wants to run the gammit of emotions.
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Summary: The best Sparks book yet
Review: I placed a reserve copy on order, and it arrived on Saturday. I couldn't sleep that night, and I started the book at 2 a.m. BIG MISTAKE! I couldn't go back to bed until I finished the book - at 7 a.m.! The book is tremendous. Not only does he write tight stories, with live characters and human problems, he incorcorates a problem not normally talked about in novels: speech delay in children. I identified with both Taylor and Denise, and ached for them. I was crying and laughing and pushing them along. The loss, the goals achieved... how can you not fall in love with these characters? Great job once again, Nicholas! When's the next book coming out?
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Summary: Great beginning, but YAWN! through the rest of it.
Review: Unlike his other books, this one was not worth my money. The first 50 pages I couldn't put it down. After that I was fighting to stay awake. There is only so much thinking outloud I can take. What a disappointment from a great author.
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Summary: Almost Great!
Review: I have been a Nicholas Sparks fan since The Notebook, and still think that is his best work. Message in a Bottle was mediocre, and A Walk to Remember was mediocre at best. The same thread runs through all of them, and it gets a bit tiresome. I was very disappoined in the fact that Denise and Taylor resorted to pre-marital sex. Why can't our modern day writers tell a story without this immorality? There are a lot of people, even in real life, who can and do save this for marriage. So why can't the fictional ones do the same?
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Summary: Emotionally Gripping
Review: Emotionally gripping, The Rescue hooks readers with interesting characters in emotional struggles. If you liked his other books, by all means read this one. Slightly predictable, but nevertheless a heartwarming and satisfying story.
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Summary: Good, but not the best
Review: The Rescue was a very entertaining book, however I didn't feel that it was of the same caliber of work as the three previous books by Mr. Sparks. The other books seemed to have almost a magical quality about them and this story didn't. It had the characters suffering with problems for so long, and the resolution came so quickly that it just seemed hurried and it didn't fit with the rest of the story.
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Summary: Another great book by Nicholas Sparks
Review: I've read all of his books and this one is just as good. Not as heart tugging as A Walk to Remember, but equally well written. He is definitely a "one sitting" author and I've always read his books straight through. Looking forward to his next.....
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Summary: As a Sparks Fan, I was terribly disappointed
Review: I have been an avid reader of all of Nicholas Sparks' novels since he was first introduced to me. I must admit sadly, that The Rescue was very mediocre writing at best. I finished this novel in 2 1/2 hours and absorbed every word along the way, but really did not care in the long run about any of these characters. I think Mr. Sparks may have fallen in to a cookie cutter trap as he designed his story, as i felt as if I read this same scenario 300+ times before and in any average Harlequin romance. It does take a rocket scientist to find out where the story is heading after page one of the text. If you read Sparks novels at all, you know the plot: Boy Meets Girl (usually after a tragedy or a mjor event) Boy falls heads over heels for Girl Either loses girl or throws her away for some petty reason. Someone ALWAYS will die (Inevitable in any Sparks novel) This may sound remedial enough, but this is what I felt I was faced with as I read this novel, no better suited for anyone over 18. This is heart tugging, shameless manipulation by the absolute master of his genre. Read "The Notebook" or "Message in a Bottle" for better examples of this writer.
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