Is it better to have love & lost or better to never have loved at all …?

Not my favorite Sparks novel but I connected with the main character Theresa and felt everything she went through.

Pass the Kleenex please.

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After finishing Message in a Bottle, I am completely speechless. I was unable to put the book down and so eager to continue to learn what will happen next. Nicholas Sparks is my favorite author and after reading this book, I'd say this is his most touching novel I've read so far. A woman, Theresa, is recovering from a divorce. One day, while she was on the beach, she finds something that'll change her life forever. She sees a bottle with something inside--it's a letter. She reads it and tears begin to fall because the person who wrote this letter really loved his significant other. This someone was Garrett. After many events, Theresa and Garrett meet and they develop something so beautiful. Theresa is falling for Garrett but she's still protecting herself from getting hurt because she knows Garrett isn't over his wife, Catherine, who died 3 years ago. Theresa had 3 letters Garrett wrote and he found them. They end up having a big argument and Garrett leaves. Theresa went down and they decided to end their relationship because things aren't working out. Sparks writes in 3rd person omniscient and readers can see that they both don't want to end like this. The ending is the best part and you'll have to read it to feel it. This novel has emphasized how important your significant other is, how it'll feel to loose them, but most importantly, to always keep and love them with all your heart. Nicholas Sparks was able to make me see another side of love. I'd recommend this book to everyone because it's a really great book. This book was powerful enough to make me tear up.

Siedzę i ryczę.

So cute and romantic. This book only reinforces my love for Nicholas Sparks! I cried like a total baby at the ending, like I typically do for most of his books. Couldn't get enough of this one. And definitely WAY better than the movie, the movie honestly sucked. Worth the read!

Just like many, if not most, the movie did NOT do justice to this book. Nicholas Sparks wrote a very detailed, vivid story of Theresa and how she found Garrett through clues in the letters that eventually were found offshore. The difference lies in that the characters described in the book were more human, they were much more flawed, but definitely real. The movie portraied Garrett as a victim of the circumstances that was lied to and that somehow did not have any say in what occurred. It also projected Theresa as someone that was easily thrown into searching for Garrett for the purpose of "knowing what kind of person would right romantic letters," which seems like a lame excuse. I mean, realistically speaking, how many people would go out of their way to seek, find and become intimate with, the author of a romantic letter?
One of the most interesting descriptions is that Theresa later finds herself in the same situation she found Garrett in when they first met, and did not understand.... a lesson embeded everyday life.

Written in a very simplistic way, one story line, nothing going on but the conversation or action currently on the page. I can see how it could easily be made into a movie as it is very low on content and high in maudlin emotion. Being a romance it has to have some silly language, in this case the overuse of the word "tightening". Take this line, "The breeze was blowing through her hair, and the sight of it made something tighten in his stomach." If that isn't enough to get you giggling, take these lines, "There was something mysterious and different about the way he acted, something masculine. And that made him unlike anyone she'd ever met before." Am I the only one who thinks this is funny? Despite myself, I've been eyeing corked bottles. Should I send a message in a bottle?

O poveste de dragoste care împletește speranța cu durerea. Care-ți rupe sufletul și te cutremură.

Read this book while vacationing in Cancun in 1998. Read the final page watching the dawn on the beach. Perfect experience!

If I remember correctly, it was one of my favorite books during that time. The book made me compelled to write a letter and throw it out to sea, which I never did.

It's a heartfelt story that should be read. However, it's not memorable because after all of these years, I am not interested in reading it again. It's a one-time-good-book read. If you like Sparks's writing, then I highly recommend this book. If you enjoy stories about how two people don't know about each other, but it's fate that they should be together, get this book. If you're into sappy love stories, get this book. Otherwise, don't. :-)

... the woman was too stunned to speak

"Weit wie das Meer" hat mich unglaublich überrascht.

"Das Leben geht oft ganz andere Wege, als wir erwartet haben, nicht wahr?" S. 114

Auch, wenn ich persönlich viel jünger, als die Protagonisten Theresa und Garret, bin hatte ich von Anfang an eine Verbindung zu ihnen.
Nicholas Sparks hat es tatsächlich mit seinem Schreibstil geschafft, mich komplett an dieses Buch zu fesseln. Die Geschichte ist so sanft, leidenschaftlich und poetisch und gleichzeitig sehr emotional und tragisch, dass ich gar nicht in Worte fassen kann, wie schön und wie traurig zugleich diese Liebesgeschichte ist.

"Nichts, was uns viel bedeutet, ist leicht." S. 128

Dieses Buch ist eine absolute Herzensempfehlungen, denn diese Geschichte da ist ein so schnell nicht mehr los!

"Einmal, als ich ihn einen Unmenschen nannte, erklärte sie mir, dass er, solange ich an meinem Zorn festhielt, immer noch Macht über mich habe, und so begann ich, gegen meine Wut anzukämpfen." S. 161

I loved reading the story. I watched the movie first and I admit it was a mistake. I expected the book to be fast paced too but it wasn't. Even the story is very much different. (SMH). But I guess, that's the best part of being a bibliophile, to be able to know the characters personally; and feel for and with them. I loved the deep and poignant characterization! I deducted one star only because of those too many conversations which lead the story nowhere. This thing can be edited. And I've observed this to be a recurring trait in sparks' novels.