Who read the book?

[OCLUVA86]

right....but they really go into more after they haven't seen each other for 14 yrs instead when they were younger.i'm sure in the movie he isn't 31 and she isn't 29. i didn't see the movie yet but from what i saw they got some things from the book and put it in the movie...usually the book and movie aren't the same...

[Ninthwoman]

I think that after anyone sees the movie, they will treat it as a completely different work of art from the book that inspired it. It's so beautiful in and of itself.

[Allie]

I read the book like a week ago and it was the first time i've ever cried during a book. It was so bitter sweet. I loved it. I'm trying to get my mom and friends to read it lol

[OCLUVA86]

when did u start crying in the book?? i am up to the part when he takes her for a surprise..there on the boat together.

[Allie]

Oh that part was sweet I cried at the end. When it goes back to him finishing reading to her. The last few pages really got me going though.

[kazakichik]

i cried sosososoooo much at a walk to remember. but for some soooo totally beyond weird reason, i didn't cry at the notebook when i read it. don't get me wrong , it's a wonderful book i just didn't cry i mean , i was close to tears at maybe 3 parts but i didn't cry! i can't believe it! but at the movie i will most definetly cry, because if you see it and you don't make up what the characters look like you feel the emotion a lot more. i love the book, please don't say that i don't if i say this, but i did read the book very fast and i'll probably read it again tomorrow.

[Geekygwa]

For the most part, I was thoroughly dissapointed by the novel. I had been fortunate to see a preview for the film about two weeks ago, and I ran out immediately to get the book. There were very beautiful parts to it, but overall I felt it lacked the passion that I loved in the film. The sweetness was there between the older Noah and Allie, but to me their reactions as their younger versions seemed very unrealistic. I do cherish the film and it is one of the most breathtaking I have seen in a while. I can see that I am one of the few who feel this way, and this is only one opinon.

[Beaver]

Ninthwoman said:

What a wonderful way to experience the book - to be 17 and in North Carolina at the beach! Even though I know Charleston, South Carolina provided the film's producers with everything they needed (water, the river, the city, the countryside), I wish they had done at least a little of it in New Bern itself. It's so beautiful there, and it would've been nice to see the places that inspired Nicholas Sparks.

how much is the book?

[katryna]

I get what you're saying, Geekygwa. some of their responses in the book sounded far too cliche and unrealistic...but all of nick sparks writing is like that, and it was touching in its own sense.

i actually found alot of the book very slow and boring. it was a beautiful slow and boring, however. maybe i can't appriciate the parts with the older versions of nick sparks characters because i lack life experience and really can't relate. i like the parts where allie and noah are together, in the earlier years. same with in a walk to remember...whenever "old" landon would talk, i feel like saying "just get back to the story!" but the fact is, is that since all of the themes in mr. sparks books are everlasting love, the older versions ARE the story.

i can't remember where exactly i started crying...but i think i started getting teary eyed when noah and allie started talking after they come in from the rain...about how they tried to find each other, etc.

by the time allie was saying goodbye to noah and they kissed i was an emotional wreck and then the letter she reads...i was bawling my bloody eyes out, haha. i think i cried more at those points rather than at the end.

[Katie]

The book doesn't cost much, I'm a member at Barnes and Noble and they pretty much sell their books a lot less than most other stores. You can go here: www.bn.com

[Allie]

Hi Katie
I agree with you Kat it was beautifully slow and boring lol None the less a wonderful book!

[AznIntegra521]

i just finished it and I LOVED IT. So romantic. OMG i'd read it again and again.

[shellyboo1217]

i finished it last week... haha read it all in one day! it was hard for me to put the book down!

[AznIntegra521]

shellyboo1217 said:

i finished it last week... haha read it all in one day! it was hard for me to put the book down!

i no the feeling. When i get into a book i like, i cant put it down.

[grkANGEL85]

I was happy that I saw the movie first. I kind of knew what to expect with the book. I agree that the film had much more passion with young Noah and Allie. But then the book had more details on old Noah and Allie. In the book, I started crying when Allie was leaving Noah to go back to Lon. He kept saying to her, "stay with me" and she didn't! Then I cried again when she read his letter in the car. Basically, I cried through the rest of the book. The letters were so touching.

Beaver said:

how much is the book?

Barnes and Noble has a small paperback for $8, I believe. There's a large paperback for $12.95. I really wanted a hard cover, but they didn't have it. I got the book from my library, but I think I'm going to end up buying it