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Forward: I'm no book reviewer, so pardon this if it sounds at all like a 16 year old girl did it.. because she did. Take this as you will because I'm telling it like it is and how I see both the book and the movie. How they interact them both together and how the book ultimately overcomes the book by many obstacles in the end.
In 1958, during his senior year at Beaufort High School in North Carolina, Landon Carter never imagined that he'd end up falling in love so deeply as he did, let alone with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of his church's Baptist Minister. Landon was always played out to be the bad guy of his very small town, but in the case of Jamie, you ultimately realize that she was the one to change him forever. She saves him in a way from the thinkings he had and showed him that you find love in the strangest of places and none the less, learn from them and take that teachings with you the rest of your life. This is a timeless story about faith and the love that lives in all of us. It shows the innocence of a true first love and how it changed one man forever.
In the prologue to his novel A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks states the very affective pledge of "first you will smile, then you will laugh, and then you will cry," but sure enough his statement is true. His emotions just pour out of the story and you stay with Landon and his story every step of the way. Through his first encounters with Jamie, all the way til the end and it feels like you're experiencing all these things with him as he's telling them. It is really a very powerful story with great themes of hope, faith, and the eternal effect of our first love that we carry with us even after that love has long been gone.
Before reading this book I saw the movie in the theater and I was amazed by the story and just how well the characters agree with one another. Each character has a story to tell and by watching the movie you are able to see that thru the actors and their chemistry, but the only difference is from actually reading the book is being able to see how true Landon's feelings for Jamie are and how they actually come about because in the movie they grow from him spending time with her reviewing his lines for the play. In the book it is a totally different story all together and since the movie is -based- on the book, I take it into consideration. If you haven't read the book I highly recommend it mostly because the story is told so beautifully and it will make you want to read it over and over again because you are reminded of the innocence of that love that Landon and Jamie share everytime you read it. It always give me the sense of hope that love will come when it's time for it to come, no matter how prepared you are to face it and it will ultimately change you forever.
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I saw the movie before the book and loves it. So last mounth I read it and it was SO(!!!) good!
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