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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446693806
ISBN: 0446693804
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first love.
In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities of adulthood. Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes in town: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.
Like John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Sparks maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and sentiment. While the plot may not be the most original, this boy-makes-good tearjerker will certainly reel in the fans. Look for a movie starring beautiful people or, better yet, snuggle under the covers with your tissues nearby and let your inner sap run wild. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
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There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....
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Landon Carter is a boy who doesn't really know God at all. When he realizes he might be the only guy in the school without a date to the homecoming dance, he pulls out his yearbook for help. For some reason, he keeps coming back to the picture of Jamie Sullivan, a plain, ultra-religious minister's daughter. A date with Jamie might earn him some ridicule, but it would be better than going stag. So he works up the nerve and asks. Jamie's answer? She says yes, on one condition. She makes him promise that he won't fall in love with her.
Landon isn't a bit worried about falling in love with Jamie Sullivan.
The dance goes okay. A few days later Jamie asks him a favor. She wants him to take the lead role in the play. Landon has no desire to do such a thing, but the way Jamie puts it to him, he'd be the biggest jerk on earth to say no. The more time Landon spends with Jamie, the more frustrated he gets. If she'd just try a little, she could be normal. But Jamie is anything but normal, and that's why Landon can't help but break his promise.
This book has a couple mild curse words in it. But it is one of the best love stories I've ever read. Here is a girl who is being exactly who God created her to be. Most the kids write her off as a nerd, but Jamie is the real deal. And when a guy gets to know a girl who is real and confident and who knows who she is, that is the most attractive thing in the world. Most girls don't get that...ever. But God designed each of us to be who we are, not to pretend to be someone else. Jamie gets that. She also gets the bigger picture. That God might use her to bring others to him. This story has a heartbreaking twist, but if we can remember that we were not created for this world but for the next one, it is truly a very happy ending. I love this book!
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this book gets your attention and keeps it to the very end. I have a hard time reading books that start out slow and don't go anywhere. but that is not the case with this book . If you haven't read it you should it is a very good book.
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Hard to believe that after seeing three Nicholas Sparks movies, this is the first book that I've read by him. This is also the first book that I've read AFTER seeing a movie. It's always been the other way around. I've never been interest in reading a book after seeing the movie. I mean, why would I?
Being a romance writer, and having two of his movies, A Walk to Remember, and The Notebook, on my list of all time favorite movies, I craved to read the written words. I aspire to write such novels one day. With that in mind, I set out to read, A Walk to Remember and right after it, The Cliffnotes.
The book was very good, so good I couldn't put it down and on the second day of reading it, I stayed up well past midnight to finish it. I even cried, though I had known the whole story. I was surprised at how different the book was from the movie...both in good and bad ways.
In the end, I would have to say that both the movie and the book stand alone. Both were brilliant, wonderful stories, each bringing something different to the final product.
I've just started the Cliffnotes and can't wait to get a glimpse into how an author created such a masterpiece. I plan on reading The Notebook, next. It will be interesting to see how different the novel if from the movie, as this one was.
All in all, A Walk to Remember will remain an amazing story that will resonate in me forever, with characters that came alive and will never leave me.
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The story is familiar but the execution of the story is extra-ordinary and memorable. Stories likes these stir up the emotions and makes you appreciate the people around you.
Don't let the simplicity of the story fool you. Simple stories like these are great. There are many romantic novels/books that can endure the test of time such as "The Notebook", "The Bridges of Madison County", etc. "A Walk to Remember" is one of these books.
Stories like this have enduring lessons such as:
* People can change to the better
* True love overcomes any differences
* It is better to find quality love in a limited time rather than a generic love that drags on.
Nanay: Lessons From a Mother
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This was my first Sparks novel.
My problem was the characters and the world Sparks lays out here is so cliche that I simply didn't believe it. The characters are so one dimensional. These are teenagers, yes it's 1958, but they are still teenagers. They don't act like teengaers, they don't talk like teenagers, they are so thought out and planned, that they are fake. A young boy who is not particularly liked by the minister (the worst this boy does is eat peanuts in the graveyard if that makes him a rebel we're all in for it) falls in love with the minister's daughter (that in and of itself is cliche), but if you present something like that in a new way it could be amazing, and this book COULD have been but wasn't.
The minister's daughter was so amazingly good, she seemed not to exist at all, but more of an ideal. He asks her to the dance and she says, only if you promise not to fall in love with me. (It gets worse from there.) Usually in stories the minister's daughters are wild, because frankly, when you are raised so comformally it's how one usually ends up. As human beings, we struggle to find our OWN sense of who we are, not who our parents tell us to be. Instead, when she isn't being wholesome, helping lost puppies and delivering food to homeless and gathering supplies and money for the kids at the orphanage, she wanders the school and the town with Bible in hand speaking politely to anyone and everyone that comes into her path. It was just completely one-dimensional. There are some amazingly wonderful people in this world, I happen to know a few, but I also happen to know they are HUMAN beings, and they have flaws. Father Cavanaugh smokes like a train and when he's not in church, he can cuss like a sailor, but he's beautiful. He's a real person. She just wasn't real. She seemed more of a creation. I just didn't buy it. I didn't care about her, because she was an invention, not a true character.
I LOVE when two characters unexpectadely fall in love with each other. Billie Letts book "Shoot the Moon" was one of those. An amazing book, two characters fall in love, they are both good people, yet NOT perfect. None of us are...we all have imperfections (sometimes its those that make us truly unique), we can never be just ONE way.
Are all his books like this?
I recommend these instead:
Billie Letts "Shoot the Moon"
Anne Siddons "Nora, Nora"
Sarah Willis "Some Things That Stay"
Lesley Kagen "Whistling in the Dark"
Margaret Atwood "Alias Grace"
Charles Frazier "Cold Mountain"
Jennifer Weiner "In Her Shoes"
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