The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

After seeing the film of this book I really wanted to read this so I could see how well the film was adapted and if it missed anything out. I was very pleased when I received this as another birthday present as I though hubby had forgotten I was after it. I cannot believe though that I knew exactly what was coming at the end of the book but it still made me cry like a baby! The book starts with us being introduced to an elderly gentleman who is ...
...We are then taken to the story which he is reading from his notebook and find out that Allie and Noah at teenagers who meets and spend the summer together and fall deeply in love with each other but soon Allie is moving away so the pair end up separating and despite Noah constantly writing to her he never gets a reply. Noah never forgets Allie as he goes about his life and soon he is fighting in the war and working hard to save enough money to buy ...

sewbizzie 07.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

The notebook from Nicholas Sparks is a success story tremendely beautiful and real... Nowadays, an old man is visiting a woman who has Alzheimer, he always bring with him a notebook, and everyday he reads it to her, to make her remimber: In the early 40's, the beautiful love story beetwen Noah Calhoun, a locksmith and Allie Nelson who is having holiday in a city of the north of California, where lives Noah. Though the difficulty to be together, ...
...Allie is a girl from the city, daughter of rich parents, from a higher social class than Noah, the locksmith, and when Allie's parents discovered what is going on beetwen them they'll do everythind to separate them even to keep the letters that Noah was writting to Allie when se came back home on the end of her holidays... Allie thinks that Noah doesn't respond to her letters and doesn't want to know about her anymore, so she went to study to New ...

sweet_baby 11.02.2005 · Read full review
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The book was actually a gift from a friend who said it was a must read from her favourite author. Well, she was right. I'm not usually a novel reader but this one was amazing. Once i started reading, i could not put the book down. I just did not want the book to end. Full of romance and emotion. A must for any woman (or even man). A truly amazing love story that will have you in tears (especially the ending). It begins with 'Duke', an old man who ...
...of the other patients, especially when it comes to an old woman know as 'Hannah'. She suffers from Alzheimers Disease. Every day that 'Duke' visits 'Hannah', he brings along his notebook to read her...It tells a story of two young people by the names of Noah and Allie. It goes through the journey of Noah and Allie and how they find love, but lose it when Allie moves away with her parents. (Although the love between the two was never really lost, ...

LUKGemini 07.11.2005 · Read full review
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...New York Times Bestseller. The two central characters of this story are plagued by memories of a passionate summer romance from the past. This book will have you believing in the power of love. That there exists, somewhere in the realms of our reality, a love, a caring so deep as to be both timeless and ageless - ever enduring. Nicholas Sparks' writing is simply lyrical and each chapter keeps you guessing what the outcome will be. A very easy read ...
..."we sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste for silence is pure. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking." "...Life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived ...

cherroxi 07.08.2000 · Read full review
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...him. He tells her the story of Noah and Allie, a young couple who fall in love and spend one beautiful summer together before Allie's family leave town again. Fourteen years later, Allie is engaged, but is drawn back to Noah in an attempt to find out whether this was true love or whether he has forgotten her. Although he is older and wiser, he is everything she remembered and they fall in love all over again. But will she choose her new life with ...
...with her soulmate, the gentle and hard-working country boy? The book only took a day to read, but more than once I found myself waking up from the novel's thrall with tears rolling down my cheeks. Though the language is simple, even clumsy, it does allow the emotion and the love between the characters to shine out with a radiance that transcends the words on the page, making it more moving and electrifying than ever. It reminds the reader of the ...

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I kept wondering what the story was about - until I reached half way, then began to realise ... a man's love for his woman. Set in this magical of all decades, the 1940s, Noah meets Allie - his lifelong love. A touchingly familiar drama unfolds under Sparks's brilliant writing style, about a rich city girl and a poor country lad. That much is predictable - with parents her trying everything in their power to put a stop to the union. Understandably, ...
...knowing the others' heart longs to be reunited with the other. What makes this a gut achingly real read is the sacrifice Noah makes - watching his beloved's memory fail while suffering the affects of Alzheimer's Disease. He is duty bound to revive his beloved's memory by reading her, her Notebook, evertime she makes a 'come back' to the present. I've read other sad stories, but none as poignant as this one. Makes my heart wrench - even now - remembering ...

BESTherapies3 19.02.2005 · Read full review
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Picked up the notebook along with the dvd of the same, and was thoroughly mesmerised right from the start!. What a wonderful book, romance, intrigue, emotion, all rolled into one. I would recommend this book to all the ladies (and gents) out there who love a good old fashioned love story. The book starts in the present day, and an old man living in a nursing home who vists the other inpatients and in particualr a lady known as "hannah" who is suffering ...
...Allie and Noah. The story goes on to tell us the journey Allie and Noah make in their relationship, the summer Allie's family stay in New Bern. How they fall in love so deeply and how the summer ends with Allie moving away to start college in New York. Of how Allie's mother intercepts mail from Noah to Allie for a year, because her daughter is too good for him, of how Allie cries every nite for a year upon hearing nothing from Noah................ ...

balletgirl 06.11.2005 · Read full review
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...picked this book up in the libary about three years ago and I must have read it 10 times since. Before this I wasn\'t really into reading, at school if we had to read a book I\'d either go and get the film or just look up on the internet, but this book started my love for reading again. \'THE NOTEBOOK\' is one of the best books you\'ll ever read. The thing about Nicholas Sparks is though, he has quite a soppy writing style and he always makes you ...
...woman with alsimers. He tells the story about life, love and overcoming all obstacles to stay happy with your true love. If you\'re thinking about seeing the film first I wouldn\'t, it wrecks the style that this book is written in. Nicholas Sparks intended for you to feel how you feel when reading this book but I think the film lacks the same emotion that the books does, also the director of the film changes the ending in the film, but I much prefer ...

DixieChick10 17.08.2007 · Read full review
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...book from beginning to end. The characters were so clearly defined and I felt it was one of the best bookI have read all year. I liked the fact that in the sex scenes which in most books today are prolonged and embarassing, were done very tastiful. The characters are wonderful, from the older ones to the younger characters. You are transported back into the 1950's and you can't put this book down as you thirst for what happened next. It took me about ...

filmlover23 17.08.2004 · Read full review
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