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"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonlight, "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.
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, is truly a heart-warming love story. It is about Noah, a thirty-one year old man just out of World War II. He can't stop thinking about a girl he fell in love with when he was a teenager. Allie, a twenty-nine year old woman is about to get married, but before she does she has to take a visit back to the past. Nicholas Sparks does a great job at using point of view. Throughout the book, he lets you see what both characters in the book are thinking. He goes from Noah's point of view to Allie's point of view all within one chapter. It is nice way of writing because you get both characters' perspective about things. Sparks also does a great job at setting the scene. He describes the places very well and you almost get the feeling that you are really there. He also describes the feelings Noah and Allie are having very well. It's nice because it makes it easier to relate to the characters because you can relate them to your own feelings easily. The one thing I don't think Sparks does well is his predictability in the book. I wish that he had thrown us a curve ball and had Allie go with her fiancé. Instead he does the predictable thing and she goes with Noah. I also don't think that the
flashbacks work well with this story. I think they are confusing
and could be worked better into the story.
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