The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
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Book Reviews of The Notebook
Book Review: The Best Book Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This past year I got the chance to see an exhilarating movie about a young couple's journey through their love. This novel begins with an older man telling a story of love to a regular, elderly lady in a nursing home. From this notebook he is reading, he tells the story of a young couples redeeming love. Allie and Noah spent a wonderful summer together but were torn apart when Allies parents make them move away from the small country town Noah has lived in his whole life. Fourteen years pass without any type of communications and their lives have both moved on. Allie is engaged to a rich, powerful lawyer, and Noah has just come back from war and is rebuilding an old house. It wasn't until Allie finds an article in the newspaper that she realizes she has to see Noah before she gets married. This begins the story of a love so deep, that it's unexplainable.
The Notebook is definitely one of the best love stories of all time, and although it can be sad at times, it is very heart warming. There hasn't been a single person who hasn't fallen completely in love with the story, as well as the characters. Nicholas Sparks describes them so greatly that you almost wish they were real people.
I loved this book and would definitely recommend this to anyone I come across because it isn't like any other love story. Nicholas Sparks truly captures your heart in this one because of the way that you aren't sure about the "who's going to end up with who" which really kept me reading. I can't wait to read the sequel, The Wedding, which will hopefully be just as good or better than the first.
Book Review: Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Summary: 5 Stars
THE NOTEBOOK is the romance novel of this generation!
Ali and Noah are two very different people, or characters, depending on how you think about it. Ali is from a wealthy family that thinks very highly of themselves, and Noah was raised by his father and has had to work for every penny he has. Which is not much. The characters come alive and it is almost like you personally know both of them. It's amazing! Ali takes a vacation to New Bern where Noah lives. As the summer progresses, their relationship grows stronger and stronger and they fall in love. They fight all the time, but for some crazy reason they are madly in love.
Then the summer ends.
Noah and Ali are devastated that she has to leave. Her parents won't let her stay because they think that she is too good for him. It's absolutely devastating. He writes her letters, which she never receives because her mother intercepts and keeps them. She thinks that Noah has forgotten her.
Then World War II begins.
Noah is deployed for a couple of years and comes home when the war is over. During this time, Ali gets engaged to Lon, a lawyer who her parents approve of because he is socially acceptable. Noah buys an old plantation and fixes it up, and he and the house wind up in the newspaper. So Ali decides that she needs to go see Noah before she gets married, even though she hasn't seen him in fourteen years. At their reunion, they realize that they never fell out of love.
Read the book to find out who Ali chooses, Noah or Lon!
Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
Book Review: A Love to Remember
Summary: 5 Stars
Two people from completely two different views of life come together in one romantic love story that will have your heart beating for more. Personally, I couldn't put the book down once I started it. This is a slow moving book that gives great detail in one love story that can make just about anyone cry.
Hearing so many good words about this book, I decided to read it and I'm glad that I did. Not being one for romantic love stories, I enjoyed this book as much as any other and possibly my new favorite.
I didn't care too much for the movie that was made from the book because of its missing detail and also because of its false add-ins and take-outs. But yet, the movie, as the book, caught my attention for its heart-warming feeling you get after you read, or watch it. The book doesn't say how Noah and Allie came together but the movie did and it made me feel more connected to the story.
As the story continues and the two unusual couple fall more deeply in love, it still pains me how they decided to end it one summer night. Their argument seems little but enough to tear apart their first "real" feelings of love. Noah fights for the love of his life back after a few years of writing letters to her but then he decides it is over and writes his final goodbye letter to only be hunted by his memory of her.
Nicolas Sparks has a way of relating most of his books to just about anyone's life. His detail is one to remember and I know that this book will stay with me forever for its character's strong words and affection.
Morgan
Book Review: What a Gift Mr. Sparks has Given Us
Summary: 5 Stars
This story opens in a rest home where Noah Calhoun spends his days visiting the love of his life, a woman who often doesn't know who he is, because she is suffering with Alzheimer's. Every morning he takes a notebook full of memories of their life together to her room, hoping these memories will trigger her memory. It is sad, this man who loves this woman so, this man who will not give up.
Then we flashback to 1946. Noah has returned from the war and bought a house in New Bern, North Carolina. The house was originally built in 1772 and he restores it in an attempt to get over that one long lost love he'd had. Though he hasn't seen her in fourteen years, he hasn't forgotten her. Then we flashback a little father to the summer of1935 and meet Noah and Allie Nelson and we see how they fell in love. Allie was only fifteen, Noah the ripe old age of seventeen.
Allie's parents didn't think Noah was good enough for her and the two lost touch, then came the war and though Noah often wrote, Allie never answered. And now we go back to 1946. Allie is about to be married in Raleigh and she reads about Noah and his house in the paper and goes to New Bern to see Noah. That eventually puts paid to the marriage to that other guy and our couple have a long life together, but sadly we go back to the present and Allie's Alzheimer's, where we see Noah and his endless, undying love for Allie. A love that lasted years.
If this book doesn't make you cry, than you're not human. What a story. What a gift Mr. Sparks has given us.
Book Review: An amazing story of love
Summary: 5 Stars
I always thought that this was a romance between young people and so it sat on my shelf until I was in the right mood for that kind of book. It sat there for quite some time until, recently, I felt the need for a change in genre and decided to pick it up. I couldn't put it down--it mesmerized me. The story is a romance between young people, but it's so much more than that. It's a true love story--not just a story about true love, but a story that defines love, clarifies it and shows the enduring power of it. This book is about love, faith, trust, hope and miracles. I loved it.
I don't know that there is anyone out there who hasn't already read this book, but, just in case, I'm going to try and avoid any spoilers. This story touched me so deeply that I'm more inclined to write about my emotions than the substance of the book itself. In some places, I felt my heart warm and happiness bloom inside me. In others, I cried so hard I had to stop reading because I couldn't read the words anymore. I didn't expect to feel this way over a story--not many stories have touched me this deeply--but I can't say enough about how much I loved it.
The Notebook was, in short, amazing. It made me feel and believe and wish and hope and dream. I realize now that I have this love in my life and I can only hope it continues to grow and sustain. Love won't be denied and it can create miracles.
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