Helpful Score: 9
Another compassionate story that touches your soul. Nicholas Sparks really knows how to tell a love story...
Helpful Score: 6
Great book about love and life. Sweet love story. A must read.
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This is a quick, easy read. It's a very sweet story about friendship and love - didn't make me cry, but I enjoyed it. I won't compare it to the movie since I found that the book and the movie really didn't seem to be very similar at all (in my opinion).
Helpful Score: 6
I have read this book a few times growing up, and I still love it. It is a very touching story, yet an easy read. I would describe it as a sad love story, yet lessons are learned throughout.
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Sweet. Compelling. I wish everyone could experience love as honestly and deeply as this 17 year old boy.
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A strong character keeps this story about the power of love moving right along. Everyone can relate to this story, which will touch your heart.
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A good clean read with a bit of a religious theme.
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Good, but way too sad.
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This was my first Nicholas Sparks book and is a great one to start with for people who are just getting into him.
This book is amazing. Such a wonderful story. Emotional and quite a page turner.
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Grab a box of tissues! Wonderful story! Read in one sitting!
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Very good, very emotional, but worth it.
Helpful Score: 2
Fantastic...as are all of Sparks' books!
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I actually enjoyed the movie more.
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Wonderful! Even better than the movie.
Helpful Score: 2
The book is much better than the movie!! Definitely a tear jerker!
Helpful Score: 2
Very nice story including a young man's maturing into adulthood. Very fast read.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a really good book. It was set in a different time than the movie, but it was good. I think I like the movie a tad bit more, which is rare!
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Yet another Nicholas Sparks classic. A young love between a high school senior and a minister's daughter in 1958.
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A great and touching book. If you don't have one on your bookshelf then here's your chance.
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Sad but really very good.
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This book was amazing..even so after I saw the movie. It's touching and inspiring.
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I couldn't put this book down! I read it in a few hours! My favorite Nicholas Sparks book by far!
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What a tear jerker! I really enjoyed this one too by Sparks. Unabridged - 4 tapes
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This was the first Nicholas Sparks book I read, it got me hooked. Excellent read.
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Touching,warms your heart
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This was an absolutely captivating story. Sparks makes you look through the eyes of a 17 year old and makes you realize why you love your spouse so much! I know this is what it did for me. I fell more in love with my husband just knowing the amount of love a heart can feel. Ended a little different than I wanted, though.
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"First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned." says the main character, Landon Clark. I found this a sweet lovely book; I read it in one sitting because as chapters ended I was just drawn into the next one. Writing was sooth and the story flowed nicely. By the ending I wanted wanted it to end as it did; in real life I am not sure the ending was right.
Helpful Score: 2
Very touching. Better than the movie, and a LOT different, even if the basic storyline is the same.
Helpful Score: 1
Really good story, and really sad also!!!!
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Seeing the movie made me want to read this book. While the movie made me (and even my husband!) cry, the book did not. Still, a sweet, tender love story and the beauty that lies within us and the power of one person to change another.
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This is a beautiful story about two people from different world's coming together and not caring about what other's think. It's a little sad, but a great read. I'd definately recommend it. It is a little different from the movie also.
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Based off the movie. This is a very good book, a really moving tale of love.
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A beautiful tale of everlasting love. Tragic and bittersweet.
Helpful Score: 1
What a great book... There where times when I had tears in my eyes.
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This is one of the most romantic stories ever, and is honestly much better than the movie!
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This is a sweet tale of young but everlasting love.. Nicholas Sparks knows how to tug at a reader's heartstrings. Set in Beaufort, North Carolina, the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs in April. This is the setting for a romance between a shy, almost ethereal girl of the town's Baptist minister and a young man in high school. This story has a tremendous depth that is in all of Nicholas Spark's books.
Helpful Score: 1
This book is different than the movie, but the story's heartbeat is the same.
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This is a great book! It made me cry it was so good. If you watched the movie...it really can't compare. The book was wonderful compared to the movie. The title of the book "A Walk To Remember" was a great title for the book, but there wasn't much of a walk to remember in the movie!
Helpful Score: 1
A well written tear jerker, with a message loud and clear.
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Love it! Of course way better than movie! The time setting difference makes the book so much better!
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In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities of adulthood. Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes in town: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.
Like John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Sparks maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and sentiment. While the plot may not be the most original, this boy-makes-good tearjerker will certainly reel in the fans. Look for a movie starring beautiful people or, better yet, snuggle under the covers with your tissues nearby and let your inner sap run wild.
Like John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Sparks maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and sentiment. While the plot may not be the most original, this boy-makes-good tearjerker will certainly reel in the fans. Look for a movie starring beautiful people or, better yet, snuggle under the covers with your tissues nearby and let your inner sap run wild.
Helpful Score: 1
The book was so much better than the movie!
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This book is awesome. Sad, devastatingly sad - but awesome.
Helpful Score: 1
You will laugh and really cry. Good for the heart
A story that will stay with you forever.
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This is the sweetest, saddest, most wonderful love story I've ever read. I couldn't put it down.
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Bittersweet...A tragic yet spiritual love story..
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really good- but sad- i cried
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One of the few books that has made me cry. Much better than the movie.
Helpful Score: 1
I read this book thinking okay it will be good, but once I read it I was awestruck by the sadness and love in this book. It is a great read for everyone.
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I'll remember this the rest of my life. Brilliant!
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This is my favorite Nicholas Sparks books. The story is touching beyond belief and left me looking for the Kleenex! One of the most wonderful romances I've ever read.
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I rea;;y enjoyed this book as I do all of Sparks books
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Fabulous!!!
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much diffeerent then the movie! great read!
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Such a sweet book about love, faith and sacrifice.
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This book was okay. Not as good as the movie.
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Wonderful story of love that lasts a lifetime. I couldn't put it down.
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another great read by sparks
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Hopefully no one has to go through this, but this was a very touching story.
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Nicholas Sparks is not my favorite author, but nonetheless I find myself reading one or two of his novels each year. I guess I need a romance fix every six months or so.
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This touching story of young love is so beautiful and sweet. It makes you rethink what most people would pass off as puppy love for sure. This is probably one of my favorite Sparks books. I have a good cleansing cry each time I read it. I am also reminded that love, no matter how short lived or how much it hurts when it's over, is always worth the ache.
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Great book writer
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Whether or not you have seen the movie, this beautiful love story will take you on an emotional journey of love, commitment, and a metamorphasis of its two characters. READ IT READ IT READ IT!!! You won't POSSIBLE regret it.
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Movie was good but the book is much better
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There was a time when the world was sweeter when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats...
Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he though he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart--- and the joy and pain of living.
From the internationally bestselling author, Nicholas Sparks comes his most moving story yet.
Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he though he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart--- and the joy and pain of living.
From the internationally bestselling author, Nicholas Sparks comes his most moving story yet.
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I thought this book was a little corny, but I'd recommend it to fans of romance novels
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This is such a great story. Even though I had seen the movie and knew how the story would end, it was still as emotional as if I had no previous knowledge of the plot.
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Another tear jerker, easy read.
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great romantic read
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my favorite author
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Fantastic. If you like a tear jerker this one's for you.
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This is a wonderful story of a teenager's personal growth, maturity and unconditional love. I give it my highest recommendation.
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Well first I saw the movie and so then I had to read the book. They were both good I don't know which one I liked better. BUT NO THE SECRET OF THE BOOK IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK. This book is totally appropriate- mainly a Christian book but oh well, the moveie was directed by a 'gay Jew'. Anyway, both are very good.
>>much love
>>much love
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A wonderful book. A tear jerker at the end.
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great book-the ending is unexpected.
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A fabulous book by a fabulous author. Sparks fans...this one won't let you down.
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Good book, easy reading. You can sort of figure out the plot before the end of the book. For those of you that like a good "cry" book, you'll love this one! Not of the same outstanding caliber of work like the Message In a Bottle, or even more so The Notebook!
Good reading nonetheless!
Good reading nonetheless!
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If you loved Message in a Bottle and The Notebook, you will love this book too.
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A truly enjoyable read. Loved the characters and felt involved in their lives from the start. Touching, romantic and inspirational. A truly moving story that will touch you deeply.
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easy to read; great story and autthor
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I read this book last nite! It was really good! I have never read Nicholas Sparks before but I will definitely look for more. It was very touching!
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I haven't read a Nicholas Sparks book I didn't like. This tale of a small town romance and subsequent heartbreak (but not what you would expect) is a great, quick read.
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Another "marvelous" novel from Nicholas Sparks about young love surviving trials. A short read, hard to put down, and flows excellently.
Five out of five!
Five out of five!
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Sparks knows how to make you cry. This is a wonderful book. It's and emotional Journey from the beginning.
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This book showcases two very different characters who fall in love with each other unexpectedly. Has a young and innocent feel and a very surprising turn. Most likely to make you cry like a baby. Such a wonderful book by a wonderful author.
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even better than the movie and moves you to tears by the end
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The last paragraph in the Prologue sums up this book. "First you will smile, and then you will cry -." I started reading this book and couldn't put it down. It is a great book with a wonderful message. Makes you want to look at your own life.
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This is such a beautiful, sweet, "everlasting" love story that I could not put down. Nicholas Sparks is so good at tugging at your heartstrings!!! This is a book you will always remember!!! You will enjoy this!
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Straight up romance / coming-of-age story about first love and loss. Could easily be classified as YA.
Sparks telegraphs the conclusion pretty early on, and it can't come as much of a surprise to any reader when the Big Challenge looms between the young sweethearts. There's a nice fillip at the end which is left satisfyingly vague -- each reader will have to decide exactly what is being said.
Sparks telegraphs the conclusion pretty early on, and it can't come as much of a surprise to any reader when the Big Challenge looms between the young sweethearts. There's a nice fillip at the end which is left satisfyingly vague -- each reader will have to decide exactly what is being said.
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I've read part of this book, but not all. Too romantic for me, but it's well written! Great condition.
Love everything by Nicholas Sparks!
Great love story!!
Terrific Nicholas Sparks book!
Love anything by Nicholas Sparks
Great book! I loved it!
Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com
Landon Carter is now 57 years old and he is telling his love story from when he was a senior in high school. He still remembers the events of something that he thought was just a friendship as if it was yesterday.
Jamie Sullivan was a minister's daughter, who wore boring brown sweaters every day, always tied her hair up in a bun, and always had her Bible with her. She is the girl that you would think of when you would imagine the person who gets made fun of in high school. She had never been on a date in her life, and Landon was one of the more popular boys in his high school.
Landon didn't have a date for homecoming, so he decided that he would ask Jamie because she was too sweet to say no and wouldn't have a date yet. When he asked, she said "promise me that you won't fall in love with me."
After a horrible night at homecoming, Jamie asked Landon to play the male lead in an upcoming Christmas play that was performed every year, and was a very big deal in the town. Landon didn't really want to, but Jamie talked him into it because she was playing the lead female and her father had written the play -- and Jamie wanted the play to be very special. After about two months of constant rehearsals, the play was performed and the town knew that this had been the best year ever. And Landon had to admit that it went well, and that he was falling in love with dorky Jamie. But there is a secret that Jamie was hiding from Landon. What could it possibly be? And why did she tell Landon not to fall in love with her?
This is another powerful love story from an author that makes you believe in love. Read this amazing novel to find out the secrets of Landon and Jamie.
Landon Carter is now 57 years old and he is telling his love story from when he was a senior in high school. He still remembers the events of something that he thought was just a friendship as if it was yesterday.
Jamie Sullivan was a minister's daughter, who wore boring brown sweaters every day, always tied her hair up in a bun, and always had her Bible with her. She is the girl that you would think of when you would imagine the person who gets made fun of in high school. She had never been on a date in her life, and Landon was one of the more popular boys in his high school.
Landon didn't have a date for homecoming, so he decided that he would ask Jamie because she was too sweet to say no and wouldn't have a date yet. When he asked, she said "promise me that you won't fall in love with me."
After a horrible night at homecoming, Jamie asked Landon to play the male lead in an upcoming Christmas play that was performed every year, and was a very big deal in the town. Landon didn't really want to, but Jamie talked him into it because she was playing the lead female and her father had written the play -- and Jamie wanted the play to be very special. After about two months of constant rehearsals, the play was performed and the town knew that this had been the best year ever. And Landon had to admit that it went well, and that he was falling in love with dorky Jamie. But there is a secret that Jamie was hiding from Landon. What could it possibly be? And why did she tell Landon not to fall in love with her?
This is another powerful love story from an author that makes you believe in love. Read this amazing novel to find out the secrets of Landon and Jamie.
I think I would have liked it better if I had been a teenager when I read it. It's a sweet and innocence story, but a little too sappy for my current tastes.
This is the story of boy who meets a girl and falls in love with her only to find out her secret at the end. Good book!
and I kept hoping it would get better. I'd read THE NOTEBOOK and Loved it! This story is not nearly as good. I believe perhaps you just have to be a teeny bopper to enjoy this one. Maybe I was just in a rotten mood. You read and and see what you think. It's definitely NOT his best.
Fabulous!!!
LOvED THIS BOOKED..then i watched the movie and fell in love with it great read :)
I love this book and at the end, I had tears in my eyes. This book showed so much. It is by far my favorite book. I belive Nicholas Sparks worte this book to many young people showing them they can get through a heartbreak when instead you could be going through a heartache. I absolutly loved this book and I beleive everyone should read it.
It was an ok book for a fast read. Funny in places and great lessons learned early in life. Love Is.......
Cute book. A bit different from the movie.
Nicholas Sparks seldom disappoints, and this book is no exception. More wonderful than the movie, this books is a wonderful, romantic story...
Loved it great read!
Just fabulous! Sobbed like a baby!!! Great story!
A twist of fate makes Jaime his partner forthe Homecoming dance and life would never be the same. Keep tissues handy
A sweet story. Predictable but typical Sparks. Can't go wrong with him for a quick read.
Great life lessons here. Very good book. UNABRIDGED, 5 hrs,4 cassettes, read by the author, Nicholas Sparks
A beautiful tale of young love. Everyone should read this!!
Amazing read!
wonderful book
I couldn't put this book down when I read it. It was a very good love story and a good tear jerker. The book was far better than the movie.
This is a bittersweet tale of young love and loss, upon which the movie was based. Told very well...touching.
What a great book - I felt it was a tad bit better than the movie.
I read this in less than 3 hours! I loved it. I had never read this author before. Now I'm hooked!
A great book! couldnt put it down.
Totally awesome book! Captures your attention from the very beginning. Excellent read!!!
Great book. Kept me interested. I have liked all of Nicholas Sparks books that I've read.
Very strong book with some interesting things happening in it.
Sweet story. Good cry material!
This was my first Nicholas Sparks book that I read. I loved every word of the book. I finished the whole book in one sitting while I was on a airplane. The book was such a good book. Everyone should read this book!!!
I enjoyed this book though it was predictable.
Great book. Highly reccommended, though this book is VERY religious and mentions the Bible a lot. It IS sad, but a touching story overall.
Not one of my favorite Nicholas Sparks books, very perdictable. I was not going to finish it..But I made it through.
A good, sappy book that is a quick read. I figured out what the title was referring to early into the book--but it was still engaging. When I say sappy, I mean a sweet tear-jerker -- perfect for a sappy-sapper like me.
Excellent book. It was a great read and really made me appreciate more, the health of my children and the love for my Husband. I wish the ending was different....but it was still an excellent book.
This is one of my favorite authors.
Thins book is one of my all time favorites. Far better than the movie.
I really enjoyed this book!
Great book. Very moving.
Incredibly moving story - that makes you grab your box of tissues. Well written and recommended.
This is one story that I can honestly say was a better movie than it was a book. I think the movie showed the emotions, the revelations and evolution of the relationship as well as the enduring love better or at least as well as the book. The book was a quick read and I read it after watching the movie, which is one of my favorites. I was very disappointed that the book did not develop characters and the relationship in more depth. That being said, I still respect the heart of the story and agree that it is an inspiring tear-jerker that shows us the inside of a young boy's heart and of true love.
laugh out loud funny in places - it is well-written.
I loved the premise of the book but the writing wasn't great. It sounded like a fourth grader wrote it. Nonetheless it was a good read.
Unexpected in a very good way, but also sad or bittersweet
About the author: Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors: one can count on him to deliver a great story along the lines of a Hallmark movie, consistently good, enjoyable and fun. The only drawback to his books is that they are very much along the lines of boy meets girl, girl doesn't like boy, and boy overcomes girl's concerns. So read his books with time between them, and they won't run together.
Do you need to read in order? Each book (so far) stands on its own so you can read them in any order
Triggers: bullying of school kids, cancer, illness, major character death
A fantastic story about a couple of high school kids, who didn't like each other very much at the beginning and their very unlikely love in a small North Carolina town back in 1958. If it doesn't make your eyes water at least just a little bit, you have no emotions.
About the author: Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors: one can count on him to deliver a great story along the lines of a Hallmark movie, consistently good, enjoyable and fun. The only drawback to his books is that they are very much along the lines of boy meets girl, girl doesn't like boy, and boy overcomes girl's concerns. So read his books with time between them, and they won't run together.
Do you need to read in order? Each book (so far) stands on its own so you can read them in any order
Triggers: bullying of school kids, cancer, illness, major character death
A fantastic story about a couple of high school kids, who didn't like each other very much at the beginning and their very unlikely love in a small North Carolina town back in 1958. If it doesn't make your eyes water at least just a little bit, you have no emotions.
Great story--hard to put down.
Excellent book.
one great book from the best writer!!!!!!!!!!
A sweet tale of young but everlasting love...Nicholas Sprks knows how to tug at a reader's heartstrings.
this is a great love story
Another excellent love story. Landon falls in love with someone he never would dream about. Miracles happen to all.
enjoyed this a lot.
Great as expected. I love Nick Sparks.
A great read, very hard to put donw.
not one of my favorites, but OK
One of my favorite authors
Oh this was a very good book! Easy and quick read. Cried at the end!
Read the book in one day. I loved the movie, thought it to be sweet so i requested the book and it was what I expected. Just a cute, sweet, easy to read book.
A sweet tale of youngbut everlasting love.
" A sweet tale of young but everlasting love....Nicholas Sparks knows how to tug at a reader's heartstrings. A good cry!
I really like this author. This book was a nice quick read, but it definitely did make me cry.
Check out other books I have posted on this author. One of my favorites.
A great book for Young Adult readers.
Nicholas Sparks proves once again that is books are great reads..
Very good book.
This book is entertaining and heartwarming. A quick but pleasurable read!
One Of my favorite books. I've read it over and over
WHAT A LOVING STROY OF ABSOLUTELY TRUE LOVE AND A HORRIBLE DISEASE
A romantic tale unwinds and will touch your heartstrings.
Another great one by Nicolas Sparks!!
One of the best books I have ever read, I think all teenagers should read this book. Learn what true love really is.
The writing was just so slow I could not even get past the first chapter. Started to read The Lovely Bones instead and never looked back.
The book's a million times better than the movie!
i love this book. Nicholas Sparks showed me a new way of how to love. With as much passion and as much of my soul as possible..
Yet another great feel-good book by Nicholas Sparks. This has some similarities to the movie and is very well written. It makes you truly admire the love that this young couple feels for each other.
Typical Sparks, short and emotional and well written.
Fabulous; one of my favorites. I cry everytime:)
it was a good book
Wonderful book, I giggled and I cried.
great book
Young love. Painfully sweet.
This book was wonderful! A love story about two teenagers from completely different worlds who fall for each other! It was heart wrenching at the end, but i loved it! I love Nicholas Sparks, he really knows how to make you cry!
Book was okay. Loved the movie way better
A classic Nicholas Sparks book. If you are looking for a coming of age love mixed with some romance, you've found it.
ahhhh i laughed and cried and cried some more!!!
Another great book from Nicholas Sparks.
Clearly a winner. While it has some things in common with the movie, don't expect to read what you saw. Some things are different; mainly the setting.
A bit too rambling for my taste, but also not quite my genre.
Great book
Great book!!
One of the very best from Nicholas!!!
Even if you've seen the movie, as the saying goes, the book is ALWAYS better than the movie!!
There was a time when the world was sweeter...when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats...
Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister...Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living.
Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister...Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living.
Excellent Book again by Nick Sparks
I love all of Sparks books. This is very good!
A good love story. Excellent condition.
Book has a corner chewed a little,but other than that,is in good condition.
I am the only one who believes the bride lives at the end and does not die. The husband say's at the end he believes in Miracles. Nicky Sparkes is like that. Don't let Hollywood change the ending. I really do think she lives and does not die.
Great book.
Larger Print book - approx 14-16 pt. font
This ISBN is for the Special Crossings (Book Club) Chrsitian Edition.
The book I have, has a different cover.
