Message in a Bottle
by Nicholas Sparks
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Author: Nicholas SparksEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Print
Published: 1999-01
ISBN: 0446606812
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Vision
Product features:
- Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
- Now a Major Motion Picture by Warner Brothers
- Warner Books Edition, 1st Paperback Printing, February 1999
- ISBN-10: 0446606812, ISBN-13: 978-0446606813
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Book Review: TOTALLY A FIVE-STAR BOOK=)
Summary: 5 Stars
Theresa Osborne, a divorced single mom with a twelve-year-old son, takes a summer holiday at Cape Cod with her fellow co-worker Deanna while his son goes on a trip with his father David and David's new wife, Annette. During Theresa's visit, she found a message in a bottle while she was jogging at the beach. The letter inspired her everyway and touched her so deeply especially in a stage where she doubts if there is a decent man out there for her. After some investigation, she found out that the love letter was from a man from North Carolina who lost his wife Catherine in a car accident. Meeting each other for the first time, Garrett and Theresa soon found each other falling madly in love. Despite of their long distance relationship, their love each other grew and mature. However, Garrett enabling to forget his love Catherine finds himself confused over the two lovely women. Sensing this, Theresa also suspects his love towards her, which eventually led to a problem: whether their love will last. Not only was the problem with Catherine, the long distance relationship was something hard for Garrett to bear. Because of this, he demanded Theresa to move in with his in North Carolina, which made the conflict bigger figuring it was hard for both to move to either house. With grow of the problem, Theresa finally lets it out-to break up the relationship. Enabling to bear this, Garrett travels out to the sea with his Happenstance even though he expects to face a storm. Enabling to fight the power of nature, Happenstance and Garrett both dies in the ocean. Theresa who once was not able to understand Garrett in not able to let his love go, she soon realize the feelings of that truth by becoming in his shoe.
I really did like this book. For this project I read three times to get a clear understanding of the content and each time I read it, it didn't fail to make me touched by the love story. I think it is really amazing how the story first came out to portray Nicholas Sparks' father's love story. I guess from the experience that he had learned from his father, the book came out really successfully. Although in some parts it did sound unrealistic in some parts, the actualy text was verytouching and moving, which make it understandable why many people are emotionally connected with this book. I did too felt connected even though I never ever experienced the strong love and passion that both of the characters felt twice in their lives. I think this book must have really made people to encourage there is actually second chance of love somewhere but it all matters if you accept the love or not. Ending my point about this book, I personally believe that this book portrayed very well on if "love can be found twice in lifetime" (Sparks).
Summary of Message in a Bottle
Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when...If you thought The Notebook was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks's second star-crossed love story, Message in a Bottle. When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together..." It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends with "...am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret."
Garret may eat quiche, but no bother--before you can say "Look! I found two more letters!" Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat, The Happenstance. From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past--or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her "I'm a super churchgoing guy now that I've run out on my wife" ex-husband that she hasn't tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what's Garret's bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is.
Message in a Bottle has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike--it's sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter. --Rebekah Warren
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