Nicholas Sparks' second novel (after the Notebook). A classic love story.

Re-read; read for the first time in high school. This was the first ever Nicholas Sparks book I read. I wanted to re-read it before I read Two-by-Two because that remains the last Sparks book I haven't read so wanted to revisit the first book of his that I read. He is by far a favorite of mine and cannot wait for more books from him.

I underestimated this novel, assuming it would be boring based on its publication date. However, I was proven wrong. In all my years of reading, I had never shed a tear over a novel before. Yet, the last few chapters pierced my heart, leaving me in tears and my pillow wet.

The ending was painful.

Letters , the thing fascinating about love letters is the marks; deep and long lasting , it leaves not only upon reader's mind but on writer's too . The pain of writing is greater even when inked with love , tender love.
I have been found of writing letters like this , though i gave a failed attempt . When i came across the name of the book, it was a perfect treat .
" note book " is the book for which author is quiet famous for. But this novel is different from typical love stories.
Single mother in mid life crisis finds a letter enclosed in a bottle at the sea. Her eagerness to find the writer leads her fall for him. She is hesitant of accepting the love , as fear of loosing fills the distance between her place (Boston) to his (Wilmington).

A must read for teenagers to have insight what it like to be "moving on" with life when someone leaves us when love is needed the most.

Abandoned! I’m just not into the romance genre. My inner cynic just jumps up and down saying “no way would he/she behave that way”. I can’t override my sense of disbelief.” I gave “Message in a Bottle” a go because it had a promising beginning, but romance writing is romance writing; I’m just too practical to be intrigued by it.

4.5/5

I was looking for a good book to bring on my summer vacation about a week ago and staring at my book shelves for more than thirty minutes, I had no clue what to do. I usually pick a few books that catch my eye and suit my mood and I guess I just get a feeling for the right one. But this time, I was very uncertain just like I had been about everything that day. Eager to suppress these emotions, I decided to bring a random book. Something I would never do, that's for sure, but hey, never say never!
Anyway, I landed my eyes on this gem without knowing what I was getting myself into. This is the story about pure love from a realistic point of view, I'd say. Not many things in life turn out the way we want, but that's the beauty of it. Actually, what an extraordinary story! Perfect amount of sensuality, humor, events, descriptions and it's definitely not predictable. So easy to read, yet so thought provoking.
At one point, I had to close the book and just, think. Think about what love means to me, my expectations, past experiences and how it constantly challenges and changes us. Needless to say, I found myself connected to the pain this author wanted to portray. I usually don't cry, but I was so touched that the tears kept rolling down my cheeks long after I had finished reading the last page. Overall, a great book! Turned out to be the perfect choice for me.

Hace mucho que leí este libro que digo mucho muchísimo era de mis primeros libros de romántica que leía y no recuerdo mucho sólo lo de la botella y el mensaje que me gustó pero el final fue horrible me dejó con una sensación horrible de vacío por eso JAMÁS le volví a dar otra oportunidad a Nicholas Sparks, sólo a sus adaptaciones de las películas que me parecen mejores que sus libros jajaja

Message in a Bottle

This book is amazingly romantic and emotion wrecked. It poor my heart out. A great book to read when life is against you, when you've lost someone very dear. It will make you cry and give you hope at the same time.


"The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few hours before the rain began to fall. Like all bottles, it was fragile ans would break if dropped a few feet from the ground. But when sealed properly and sent to sea, as this one was, it became one of the most seaworthy objects known to man. It could float safety through hurricanes or tropical storms, it could bob atop the most dangerous of riptides. It was, in a way, the ideal home for the message it carried inside, a message that had been sent to fulfill a promise."




Personal note:
I found very old a copy of this book. The cover is folded, the pages are colored in time and bend a lot. You can see this book is read by many. The book came all the way from USA and ended up in a Dutch Free Little Library. I cherrisch this book with my whole heart. My little gem.

Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks

Message in a Bottle is the second romance novel written by American author Nicholas Sparks. The story, which explores the romance theme of love after grief, is set in the mid-late 1990's, then-contemporary Wilmington, North Carolina. The 1999 film Message in a Bottle produced by and starring Kevin Costner, is based on this novel.

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «پیامی در بطری»؛ «پیغام اقیانوس»؛ «نامه ای در بطری»؛ نویسنده: نیکولاس اسپارکس؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز ششم ماه نوامبر سال2015میلادی

عنوان: پیامی در بطری؛ نویسنده: نیکولاس اسپارکس؛ برگردان ارمغان جزایری؛ نشر تهران، البرز، سال1378، در317ص، شابک9644422295؛ چاپ پیشین این کتاب با ترجمه سرکار خانم نفیسه معتکف در390ص، توسط انتشارت لیوسا، سال1378، در390ص؛ با شابک9645634083؛ چاپ دوم سال1380؛ چاپ سوم سال1387؛ چاپ چهارم سال1395، در392ص؛ شابک9789645634085؛ منتشر شده است؛ با عنوان: پیغام اقیانوس، مترجم البرز آذرکیوان؛ تهران، سوگند، سال1386، در323ص؛ شابک9789647532655؛ و با عنوان نامه ای در بطری؛ مترجم چکامه چاوشی، ویراستار بهاره شیرازی؛ تهران، آوای چکامه، سال1399؛ در303ص؛ شابک9786008173700؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده20م

پیامی در بطری؛ حدیث جدال، با سرنوشت دو انسان سرگشته است؛ «گارت» غمگنانه، پیام عشق و دلدادگی جاودانه ی خود، به همسرش «کاترین» را، در بطری‌هایی به آب می‌سپارد؛ همسرش سه سال پیشتر، در تصادفی جان باخته است؛ فرسنگ‌ها آنسوتر، «ترزا» زنی که می‌کوشد، زندگی خویش را، وقف تنها فرزندش نماید؛ یکی از بطری‌ها را می‌یابد؛ «ترزا» مقاله‌ نویس است، و خیانت همسرش، سبب جدایی از او شده است؛ «ترزا» پس از خوانش نامه، و پی بردن به عشق بی‌آلایش نویسنده‌ اش، آن را در روزنامه چاپ می‌کند؛ عده‌ ای از خوانشگران؛ طی تماس با دفتر روزنامه، می‌گویند، آنها نیز، نامه‌ هایی همانند و با همان مضمون، پیدا کرده‌ اند...؛ و؛

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 02/02/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ 20/12/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

I read this immediately after A Bend in the Road so Garrett's wife's death is very similar to Miles' wife but here there was no mystery but lot of love and sadness. The story starts while a success columnist who at 36 is divorced with a 12 years old son is vacationing and comes across a message in a bottle and the content is so full of raw emotions that she can't help but cry. And soon somehow it finds way to her column and soon she finds there are other letters which people found similarly to her and curious she wants to meet the guy who has so much love in his heart. So she finds the guy Garrett with the help of her Boss/Friend Diane who was a kick-ass character whom I liked a lot, Theresa not so much.

This book is seeped in emotions and like most/all of Sparks's books in set somewhere around North Carolina there are sea, beaches, boats and vacations and flings and romances along the way but like so often happen the reality and egos soon come between them and then there are the understanding and misunderstandings they have to go through all in all it was a typical Sparks book which is also tinged by tragedy here and there and I am already kinda getting over it but when I have promised myself to go through as many of these books as possible then I shall do so.

May be if you are still missing the Sparks in your lives then pick one of these books maybe you will find something to love so love and read and love and enjoy and just keep on reading.

People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.

The plot was good I think but the book in totality lacked the cohesion or fluidity. I am no fan of his way of writing, but if you've got it, you can read it in a stretch lying down, under a table-lamp before going to sleep.
The novel starts as it does, but the urgency in Deanna’s character forcing Theresa to go meet Garrett and see if he is the love of her life looks sad and bad. The Garrett person is already in pains and to go down there, meet him for your own gains is very selfish.
Then, their experiences together, their so immediately falling in love with each other felt unreal because it appeared that the chances of everything falling in place so soon does not happen so easily in real lives. Garrett who couldn’t think of anything without Catherine in his minds suddenly steered in path of finding of love again in his life is just fictitious. I don’t deny the possibility but it was a bit tacky. Rather, the inabilities of Garrett fighting his feelings for Catherine and Theresa simultaneously later have been displayed aggressively.
I got bored with it while Garrett and Theresa were trying to figure out their lives together, how they wanted to live their lives. It got way too descriptive and even then Garrett was showed to have not thought of everything in anticipation when he asked Theresa to move to Wilmington.
Frankly, I was worried I was not getting tears in my eyes until the last. Yeah, this novel will bring tears in your eyes. I didn’t like the climax. It felt like even God was willing to skip on dealing with the complications in people’s lives and it was easier to remove him from her life. But, the sequences of actions enveloping the climax were adequately written. The last letter to Catherine to make it reach Europe made it a bit cheesy but okay, another for Theresa to forgive him. Truthfully, the letter he wrote to Theresa sounded the best of all and what she had written to him in the last owing to moving on welled up my eyes.
I don’t know if it was intentional but I liked the way she signed her letter ‘T’ and not Theresa so that even if anyone found out about it, they wouldn’t know who the sender was and she wouldn’t be caught in the vicious circle of what she had created when she went to contact him.

پیامی در بطری داستانی است که باور ما را در مورد سرنوشت تقویت می‌کند که عاشقان راستین بی‌توجه به زمان و مکان می‌توانند یکدیگر را بیابند. ترزا، روزنامه نگار، بطری دربسته ای حاوی نامه ای عاشقانه در ساحل پیدا می کند که باعث می شود مسیر زندگی اش به کلی تغییر کند. او نامه را می خواند:
کاترین عزیزم، دلم برایت تنگ است. همیشه دلتنگم، اما امروز از همیشه بدترم؛ زیرا دریا نغمه سرایی می کند و آواز سر می دهد که زندگی من به تو بسته است...