... 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 living in a nursing home and is ill but spends his day reading to a lady friend who had Alzheimer’s ... Read review
Advantages: Wonderfully written, gripping and full of emotion and love Disadvantages: Made me cry again!
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 ... ...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 ... more
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 living in a nursing home and is ill but spends his day reading to a lady friend who had Alzheimer’s and does not know who he is. He reads to her from his notebook about a lovely young couple called Allie and Noah.
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 the run down house which he and Allie both fell in love with as he plans to renovate the house just like they had planned. After a lot of hard work and money the house is finished and there is an advert in the newspaper showing off Noah’s achievement.
Allie has moved on with her life believing that Noah has done the same as he had not heard from him since she left after the summer they spent together and she is now engaged to Lon. Lon is a nice man who is a very popular lawyer who treats her very well but Allie has her life turned upside down when she reads in the newspaper of Noah’s achievement in finishing the house and after some time she decided to pay him a visit telling Lon she needs a break from all the big wedding plans and she also wants to go antique shopping.
After some deliberation Allie turns up at Noah’s house and Noah is completely shocked as he has always dreamed of this moment but he soon finds out Allie is with another man and he soon thinks that they can never been together. The pair spend time together and soon realise just how much they still love and feel for each other. Will Allie give up her rich life to spend the rest of her life with her one true real love and just who is the elderly man reading in the nursing home?
I think Nicholas Sparks has done a fantastic job with this book and after reading it I can quite see why they made a film about it. The way he managed to put the story across were excellent and he had me feeling so many different emotions throughout the book. Yes I did cry like a big baby at the end despite knowing and also easily would have been able to predict the outcome but it still really got to me. He managed to put across in words just how much Noah and Allie felt and loved each other which is a massive achievement I feel for a man!
The book is very easy to read in I found I was not wanting to put it down and it did infact only take me 2 days to read the whole book. I did find that there were a few differences with the book and film and for some reason I found that there was so much more to the story after we returned to the elderly man in the nursing home and the lady who he was reading to. I do not remember so much of this from the film and I did enjoy how the book developed the elderly characters slightly more than the film. I was not able to form my own images of the characters and the settings for the book as I did watch the film first which for me was a shame as I would have liked to have made my own characters and images for the wonderful setting which are described to us.
The book which I have is the paperback edition which does have a chapter at the end of the book from another book which Nicholas Sparks has also written called The Wedding. I did not read this chapter because I will definitely be purchasing this book aswell as I did thoroughly enjoy this one and found his writing style to be excellent.
The retail price for the book is £6.99 but it is available cheaper on Amazon and EBay and I do recommend this very highly. For anyone who had neither read the book or seen the film then I would say that I recommend reading the book first so you are able to make your own images and setting which I do enjoying doing more than seeing them on the screen.
Other titles which Nicholas Sparks has written include:-
The Wedding The Guardian Message In a Bottle A Walk to Remember The Rescue True Believer At First Sight
I will definitely be looking out for these as I think he is now one of my favourite authors. If you would like any further information on this or any of Nicholas Sparks’ books then please visit www.nicholassparks.com
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
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Advantages: A well written book to take to bed and relax with Disadvantages: The ending...Sad getting to that last page
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
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Advantages: A quick read, heart-warming Disadvantages:
...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
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Advantages: Romantic, escapist fiction, made me cry like a baby! Disadvantages: A bit simple and clunky, in typical Sparks style
...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 ...
elliepotten 26.09.2008
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Advantages: Heartrenchingly touching Disadvantages: Desperate need to invest in Kleenex tissues!
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
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Advantages: Heartwarming, true to Sparks' style, bitter-sweet story. Disadvantages: Bit cheesy and predictable at times.
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Advantages: kept me interested till the end Disadvantages: a bit short for my liking
I have just finished reading this book and thought that I would tell you about it. It actually made cry at the end and books don't generally do that to me. I even had to email a friend to tell her to read it as well, I found it that touching.
First the basics, it is by NicholasSparks, who is probably most well known as author of The Notebook, the hit movie from 2004 that starred James Garner. The Wedding is the sequel to The Notebook and looks at the lives of one of the daughters that Noah and Allie had. It is published by Time Warner Books and the cover price is £5.99. The story is 311 pages long.
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Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned form the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. It is a story of miracles and emotions that will stay with you forever.
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