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"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if you're in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further. The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago? We're not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesn't count. Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimer's, her beau uses "the notebook" to read her the story of the great love she's plumb forgot. The Notebook--film rights already sold, thank you very much--is a little glazed doughnut of a book: sticky- sweet, satisfying, not much nourishment. But who cares? Take an extra vitamin and indulge.
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In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper. Major ad/promo; first serial to Good Housekeeping; movie rights to New Line Cinema; Warner Audio; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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This review is from: The Notebook (Mass Market Paperback)
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
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Great summer read,
This review is from: The Notebook (Mass Market Paperback)
I was recently given three great books to read by a friend. The first was "Reading Lolita in Tehran," the second was "The Bark of the Dogwood" and finally, the third was "The Notebook." While all three couldn't be more different, they were nevertheless great reads in their own right. "The Notebook" is a story of two teenagers who fall in love one summer and how that summer changes them forever. As the reader, I related to this story because of the desire to have a love like these two people share. Their companionship, friendship, and loyalty is evident throughout the entire book and nothing is able to destroy it; not time, not distance, not even tragedy. Well-written and not too commercial, I'd highly recommend "The Notebook" along with "The Bark of the Dogwood" and "Reading Lolita."
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Even Good For Guys,
This review is from: The Notebook (Mass Market Paperback)
I was honestly surprised how touched I was by this book. I'm a guy. I'm divorced. I drink beer. I shoot hoops on the weekend. I don't go to "art films". I liked this book though. To be honest, it surprised me that I like it as much as I do. It didn't keep me up at night like "The Da Vinci Code" and "My Fractured Life" but it fully kept me coming back for more all the same. I guess what I'm saying is that it's a book guys can feel good liking too.
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