Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Pros: Nicholas Sparks love story
Cons: Need more tissues!

I first "read" this when my sister-in-law and I were taking our infant daughters on a four hour trip to Mackinac Island. We rented a couple audio books for the road. This was the first one we listened to. In the beginning, we were laughing, having fun,...

Pros: Touching love story, deals with an issue facing many elderly today
Cons: Gaps in story that could have been filled in

The book opens with an elderly Noah Calhoun on his way down the hall of what is obviously a nursing home. He is approaching the sound of a crying woman, while nurses murmur among themselves wishing him luck. As he reaches the crying woman, he pulls out...

Pros: Nicholas Sparks has a very compelling writing style.
Cons: My gosh! It ended before I was ready for it to...

I saw that Nicholas Sparks released a new book, The Wedding and upon reading the dust jacket, I discovered that it used The Notebook as background material for this new storyline. Ut ok. I couldn't remember The ...

Pros: Sensitive, perceptive, touching
Cons: None

Every so often I come across a book with a story that is so moving I am unable to put my mind to anything else once the last page is turned.

It will leave me in a type of thought-provoking, subtle melancholy from which I prefer to...

Pros: Wonderfully written, heart warming, a touching story of love.
Cons: nothing.

I don't normally read romance novels, in fact The Notebook is the first romance novel I have ever read. I had always believed that they weren't entertaining enough and would never hold my attention the way my beloved mysteries or horror novels ...

Pros: short, deep, emotional
Cons: too short

I am going to start this review by saying that I love Nicholas Sparks writings. This book in particular. I had heard a lot of good words about this book about a year ago, and decided to check it out myself. In need of a fabulous love story, I...

Pros: Engaging love story, a brilliant tale in such a short book.
Cons: none

It was my first Nicholas Sparks book. My sister passed it on to me after one of her friends read it. Then I passed it on to one of my best gal pals. Eventually the book made its way through at least eight pairs of hands. Then the movie came out and a ...

Pros: Clear Writing, Compassionate
Cons: None

Nicholas Sparks had captured the power of love and the belief in love in the semi-biography of the lives of is wife's grandparents in this novel The Notebook.

The book starts and ends in the same place with the intervening pages telling...

Pros: A lot of emotion, good story.
Cons: I didn't want it to end, and I didn't have enough tissues!

Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson meet when they are in their teens. After spending one night at a local festival they are inseperable, spending every waking hour with one another and their sleeping hours dreaming of each other. Things become serious ...

Pros: The whole story!!
Cons: to short

I really loved this book, it took all of one day to read. No kidding there is only 226 pages of a love story.

It begins near the end. Noah Calhoun is reading from his notebook to an elderly woman. The story is a love story...

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Pros: Touching Love Story
Cons: Vague in the middle of their lives.

One day while in the library I decided to pick out a book based on the size of the book. (less than 1.5" binding)
Why? I am a somewhat slow reader, and have a hard time finding the time to read a large book in the 'check out' time specified. ...

Pros: Easy-to-read, heart-warming, and romantic.
Cons: A little campy, sometimes reads like a romance novel.

Noah Calhoun is a thirty-something, World War II Veteran who has reached a level of financial security by doing all of the right things. Working hard. Being honest. Loving his parents. Fighting for his country in a time of war. Allie Nelson is a ...

Pros: A wonderful love story with twists and turns
Cons: Not long enough

A few years ago when I was working as a legal secretary for a company, a woman that I had met and whom I had come to really like told me about this book. Well actually, she was on her lunch break and when she came back she was crying. I asked her if...

Pros: Well written prose, believable love story, hard to put down.
Cons: Ending is lacking

Nicholas Sparks’ quintessential love story, The Notebook, is a quick and compelling read if not great American literature. One reviewer liked it to a “glazed doughnut”. An apt comparison. However, even if you’re nutritionally contentious like me, you...

Pros: Beautifully written, timeless love story, wonderful characters.
Cons: None.

Ali & Noah came from the same place, but their backgrounds could not be more different. Ali's family came from money and Noah's family struggled to find it. Thus, their love would not be accepted and they were forced to deal with the issues at hand....