For all the Nicholas Sparks fans out there, this novel is a must read. The Notebook is a great piece of work and s major tear jerker. Sparks has done it again - even though being a love story, 'he uncovers the secrets of the human heart' with the ongoing background of war, family issues and friendship. The best part about the book is that it really makes us believe that true love can last forever. The starting is a bit confusing since we don't know how the love story starts from the hospital, but it encaptures the mind of the readers anyway. I love each and every part of this story - the romance, Noah's deep love, Allie's confused-what-to-do mind :P and of course, the way Allie asks Noah to keep a 'notebook'. What is it about ? Well, you'll have to read and find out. But I'm sure you'll love it :)
4 Hearts :) You can't find a flaw in Spark's writings :)
Romantically happy :)
Dawn <3
Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...
Wow. What. A. Book. It was kind of life-changing. Well, figuratively speaking, that is. It's a simple story of a boy who unexpectedly falls in love with a girl who's diagnosed with leukemia. The protagonist, Landon Carter, tells us the story from his point of view and does the time travel thingy - you know, tells us of the past incidents. He is an average guy with no special qualities and he's known Jaime Sullivan - the daughter of the reverend - for a long time. But due to the normal 'cliques' tendency, he never talks to her and just considers her a weird girl who wears the same brown sweater everyday and keeps her bible with her always. Everything changes when he becomes the school president, takes her to a school dance and takes up drama and he gets to know her. He walks her back to her house and she asks him to do the lead role in the play. After the play, he wonders how he could fall for her, but by then, she was all he could think of. When he confesses that he loves her for the first time, she tells him that she has leukemia. His whole world seems to fall apart but she gives him hope and confesses that she loves him too. She says the only way she was able to hold up so long was because of him. He spends more time with her, but feels like there was more he could do. Then he realizes that he must fulfill her wish - to get married in a church full of people and for her father to walk her down the aisle. On the day of the wedding, the church was bustling with people and her father says that he can share the happiness his daughter gave to him with another person too. The story ends with Landon, who is 57 years old, ending the story by telling us that he still wears his wedding ring and saying the miracles do happen.
The whole story is a complete package of some humorous lines coupled with the confusion inside the narrator's mind. The change in the narrator can be sensed by the reader. Also, the background of the story - the school with cliques, peer-pressure, etc. - is also something we all can easily relate to. It leaves a great impact on the us and left me teary-eyed. I would give it 4 hearts. A lovely book all in all and recommended to all romance-lovers. :)
Love,
Dawn ^_^
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