Are You Listening To Your Heart? (The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks)

Member Name: rosebud49

Product:	The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
Date:	15/10/01 (857 review reads)
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Advantages: very easy to read, shows what love can do, love sometimes can be confusing

Disadvantages: none, a very moving story

Once again Nicholas Sparks weaves a spell of romance and mystery around you and he does it in such a way you can't put the book down until the last page.

This is a story of two people Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson. Noah lives in New Bern, North Carolina and Allie is from out of town and will just be in town for the summer with her family. Noah goes to town looking for his friends Fin and Sarah. When he finds them at the festival the town is having there is Allie with them. Well, Fin introduces the two and from there sparks fly. Noah and Allie spend a lot of time together and fall madly in love. Allies mom is against this.

When it is time for Allie to leave with her family both her and Noah are broken hearted. Noah writes to Allie but gets no response so after two years he writes her one last letter and it is a good-bye letter.

The next thing it is fourteen years later and Noah has not married and is still in love with Allie. Allie has been seeing a man, Lon, who is a wealthy lawyer and after four years they are getting married. Three weeks before the marriage is to take place Allie sees a picture of the house that many years ago Noah told her he was going to buy and rebuild. With the picture is a story and it brings up some old feeling for Allie.

She decides to go back and let Noah know she is getting married even though they have not communicated for fourteen years. They find that they still are in love but therein lies the problem for Allie. She does love Lon but she also loves Noah but in a stronger and more passionate way. Now she has to make a decision and this after spending some days with Noah.

This book is by the man she ends up getting married to (which ever one it is) and it is told from a notebook that he has kept all these years.

I don't seem to remember which man she marries. Folks you'll have to read it yourself to find out.

The one thing I will say this book
is a story that will move you to your very soul. It could be classified as a tragedy but it would have to be how each individual who reads it views the story. You will have to make up your own mind on that one. I myself classify it as both a tragedy and a very moving love story.

The reason the story moved me to my very soul is because here are two people that have loved each other for long years and yet that love is still burning after so many years. The author does a excellent job of bringing together the situations that come about and what Allie and Noah do about them.

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