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: This is a can't put down book. A real tear jerker.
Cons: Not long enough, when is the sequal?

I recently read an epinion on this book that inspired me to go out and get this book at the local library. The epinion spoke of love, romance, and inspiration. I just had to read the book.

I was definitely not disappointed in what I read. I...

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...