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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446606813
Edition: Mass Paperback Edition
ISBN: 0446606812
Label: Vision
Manufacturer: Vision
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 1999-01
Publisher: Vision
Studio: Vision
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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
Product Description:
The author of the runaway "New York Times" bestseller "The Notebook" pens a tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courage it takes to love again. When a 36-year-old single mother finds a love letter in a half-buried bottle while jogging along the shores of Cape Cod, she decides to take a dramatic leap that will forever change her life.
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Message in a Bottle was truly captivating! It tells a story of how love was lost by a divorce and a death but was regained after finding a beautifully written message in a bottle. In my opinion, The Notebook and Message in a Bottle are both great. Without Nicholas Sparks I don't know what I would do.
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anybody want to read a bedtime love story? curl up with your better half, as i often do little past 11 pm, and just read the last 20 pages of Message in a Bottle...better still, let the female voice sound out the words, as if to dance by, and watch magic happen! her eyes will be misty, and using me, my eyes will rain gently, and we embrace love that we have just created... short time given out, and all night dreams you both share, till morning breaks. then at days end, find another Sparks novel, and sail to the stars once again...
Charlie
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I loved it...but it tore my heart up...But of course, any Nicholas Sparks books are worth reading. this is no exception!
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Woah. This is an amazing book. It takes the typical message in a bottle routine and makes it a beautiful love story. Now i will say that as with all Nicholas Sparks books the ending is disappointing, but also as in his books, he makes it right. 5 stars i cried my makeup off once more while reading the stylings of Nicholas...
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This is by far my favorite Nicholas Sparks book. It's a story about a lonely woman who suddenly finds a message in a bottle while walking on a beach. She is at this time going through love problems and is staying with a couple of her close friends. When she finds this message in a bottle her friend intrigues her to go and find this gentleman. When she finds him they get off to a rocky start but then they begin to fall in love. The end takes a sudden turn that I was not expecting at all! When I finished the book I cried for 3 days and even now (years later) I still get tears in my eyes. This book is amazing and the emotional ties the reader can build with the characters are unbelievable.
This books is 1000000 x's better than the movie. If you like Nicholas Sparks, you will love this book.
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