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Σε μικρότερη ηλικία είχα τρελαθεί με τη ταινία. Τώρα δε μου έκανε την ίδια αίσθηση.
Σε μικρότερη ηλικία είχα τρελαθεί με τη ταινία. Τώρα δε μου έκανε την ίδια αίσθηση.
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The Notebook
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A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories. . . until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments, and fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters.
Did You Know?---
The Notebook was only the third novel in recent history to spend over a year as a hardcover best-seller?
One of the poems by Walt Whitman quoted in the novel is entitled "To a Common Prostitute?"
The title for the novel was chosen by Theresa Park, Nicholas's agent?
Did You Know?---
The Notebook was only the third novel in recent history to spend over a year as a hardcover best-seller?
One of the poems by Walt Whitman quoted in the novel is entitled "To a Common Prostitute?"
The title for the novel was chosen by Theresa Park, Nicholas's agent?
254 pages, Paperback
First published October 1,1996
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254 pages, Paperback
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December 1, 1999 by Grand Central Publishing
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9780446676090
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0446676098
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English
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Allison Nelson
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Lon Hammond Jr
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Anne Nelson
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About the author
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Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 million copies in the United States alone.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), The Wish (2021), and Dreamland (2022), as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twenty-fourth novel, Counting Miracles, will be published on September 24, 2024.
Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars. The Notebook has also been adapted into a Broadway musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.
Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4×400 meters, as well as US High School National Records in the 800 Medley and 1600 Medley. Click to watch the Runner's World video with Nicholas.
The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 2011, to provide scholarships and fund educational programs for underprivileged and disadvantaged youth. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), The Wish (2021), and Dreamland (2022), as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twenty-fourth novel, Counting Miracles, will be published on September 24, 2024.
Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars. The Notebook has also been adapted into a Broadway musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.
Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. He co-founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4×400 meters, as well as US High School National Records in the 800 Medley and 1600 Medley. Click to watch the Runner's World video with Nicholas.
The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 2011, to provide scholarships and fund educational programs for underprivileged and disadvantaged youth. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.
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De las pocas historias en las que puedo afirmar que la película es mejor que el libro mismo.
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bye what was so epic about this trash?
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Descobri agora, apesar de já me ter acontecido antes, e por diversas vezes, o quão horrível é tentar ler um livro enquanto se chora. O final deste livro é terrivelmente triste, mas é apenas a vida a acontecer, não é? Lemos imensos livros com um final feliz, mas na verdade não se trata do final! Existe muito mais pela frente que tem de ser vivido e nem tudo é bom e agradável. Existem tristezas, doenças, separações, perdas... Eu gosto de pensar nas personagens dos meus livros como estando sempre felizes e a terem uma vida perfeita, mas essa é uma ilusão de quem se refugia nos livros para evitar pensar na própria vida. Eu costumo responder a quem me questiona o porquê de eu ler apenas livros com finais felizes (o que não corresponde de todo à verdade, pois seria difícil prever o final de cada livro) que para tristezas já me basta a minha vida. E isso não passa de uma ilusão...
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Ove godine sam konačno odlučio da eksperimentišem i nisam se pokajao zbog moje odluke da krenem u konstantnu šetnju kroz žanrove. Prvi put u životu sam pročitao muzičku biografiju koja me je fascinirala, što me je dodatno motivisalo da nastavim u smeru ekspeimentisanja, pa sam tako došao na ideju da pročitam i ljubavni roman, žanr za koji sam mislio da nije moja šolja čaja. Čitajući Sparksa, ponovo sam se uverio u svoju teoriju; knjige se dele na dobre i loše. Ako je knjigu napisao Nobelovac, to ne mora da znači da je dobra. Isto tako ne mora da znači da su svi ljubići leglo patetike. Beležnica mi je dokazala da sam bio u pravu.
Nikolas Sparks je idealan primer da pisac ne mora da bude mnogo kvalitetan kako bi vam se knjiga svidela. Da se razumemo, Sparks ne može da se uporedi po kvalitetu sa Išigurom ili Safonom, ali niko mu ne može osporiti činjenicu da je vrhunski pripovedač koji piše jednostavno i razumljivo, a nekad su nam baš takve knjige potrebne da malo odmorimo mozak od nekog težeg štiva. Dovoljno je samo da vas pisac uvuče u priču i drži vam pažnju sve vreme, što moram priznati da Sparks radi perfektno. Ono zbog čega me je najviše kupio je vešto izbegavanje da upadne u patetičnu zamku. Taman kad pomislite da u nekom romantičnom momentu ne može više da izbegne "srceparajuće" rečenice, on tu odjednom zakoči i nastavi dalje u pravom smeru. Genije! Oduševljen sam kako opisuje izlive emocija. Njegovi junaci se vole jako i sasvim je dovoljno da to osetite kada Noa kaže Ali da je talentovana umetnica i da ne sme da odustane od slikanja pokazavši joj njenu sliku koja mu stoji iznad kamina u kući.
Priča počinje u staračkom domu. Stariji gospodin, koji je na zalasku života, čita priču iz svoje beležnice jednoj bolesnoj gospođi o siromašnom momku Noi Kalhunu koji se tridesetih godina prošlog veka zaljubio u lepu bogatašicu Ali Nelson. Od tog trenutka počinje njihovo najlepše letovanje u životu koje će ostati samo lepa uspomena u godinama koje dolaze, jer su njih dvoje po rečima njenih roditelja "nespojivi spoj zbog društvenog statusa" , ali ne i osećanja. Znamo koliko je ova druga stvar moćna i zahvaljujući njoj će se ovo dvoje ponovo spojiti posle četrnaest godina. Provešće nekoliko dana zajedno želeći da se ponovo upoznaju i nadoknade izgubljene godine. To će ih ponovo zbližiti, ali nažalost, nešto više od prijateljstva Ali ne može da ponudi Noi, jer je verena za poznatog advokata. Ipak, njihovo neočekivano zbližavanje, nateraće je da preispita svoju odluku, jer kako kaže Noa, "u bračnu zajednicu se ne ulazi polovično, ako si čak i jednim svojim delićem nesigurna, onda nemoj". Noa je taj delić koji joj odjednom kvari planove.
Verujem da je većina čitala knjigu ili gledala film u kome su Rejčel MekAdams i Rajan Gosling odglumili savršeno. Ako niste, molim vas da ispravite tu nepravdu. Pored filma "Mostovi okruga Medison", mislim da ne postoji bolja ljubavna priča. Neću preterati ako kažem da je Beležnica moja omiljena ljubavna priča na filmskom platnu. Što se knjiga tiče, tu ne mogu ništa da kažem, jer je trenutno jedina koju sam pročitao i samim tim nema konkurenciju, ali nema sumnje da će ih biti još u narednom periodu.
Nikolas Sparks je idealan primer da pisac ne mora da bude mnogo kvalitetan kako bi vam se knjiga svidela. Da se razumemo, Sparks ne može da se uporedi po kvalitetu sa Išigurom ili Safonom, ali niko mu ne može osporiti činjenicu da je vrhunski pripovedač koji piše jednostavno i razumljivo, a nekad su nam baš takve knjige potrebne da malo odmorimo mozak od nekog težeg štiva. Dovoljno je samo da vas pisac uvuče u priču i drži vam pažnju sve vreme, što moram priznati da Sparks radi perfektno. Ono zbog čega me je najviše kupio je vešto izbegavanje da upadne u patetičnu zamku. Taman kad pomislite da u nekom romantičnom momentu ne može više da izbegne "srceparajuće" rečenice, on tu odjednom zakoči i nastavi dalje u pravom smeru. Genije! Oduševljen sam kako opisuje izlive emocija. Njegovi junaci se vole jako i sasvim je dovoljno da to osetite kada Noa kaže Ali da je talentovana umetnica i da ne sme da odustane od slikanja pokazavši joj njenu sliku koja mu stoji iznad kamina u kući.
Priča počinje u staračkom domu. Stariji gospodin, koji je na zalasku života, čita priču iz svoje beležnice jednoj bolesnoj gospođi o siromašnom momku Noi Kalhunu koji se tridesetih godina prošlog veka zaljubio u lepu bogatašicu Ali Nelson. Od tog trenutka počinje njihovo najlepše letovanje u životu koje će ostati samo lepa uspomena u godinama koje dolaze, jer su njih dvoje po rečima njenih roditelja "nespojivi spoj zbog društvenog statusa" , ali ne i osećanja. Znamo koliko je ova druga stvar moćna i zahvaljujući njoj će se ovo dvoje ponovo spojiti posle četrnaest godina. Provešće nekoliko dana zajedno želeći da se ponovo upoznaju i nadoknade izgubljene godine. To će ih ponovo zbližiti, ali nažalost, nešto više od prijateljstva Ali ne može da ponudi Noi, jer je verena za poznatog advokata. Ipak, njihovo neočekivano zbližavanje, nateraće je da preispita svoju odluku, jer kako kaže Noa, "u bračnu zajednicu se ne ulazi polovično, ako si čak i jednim svojim delićem nesigurna, onda nemoj". Noa je taj delić koji joj odjednom kvari planove.
Verujem da je većina čitala knjigu ili gledala film u kome su Rejčel MekAdams i Rajan Gosling odglumili savršeno. Ako niste, molim vas da ispravite tu nepravdu. Pored filma "Mostovi okruga Medison", mislim da ne postoji bolja ljubavna priča. Neću preterati ako kažem da je Beležnica moja omiljena ljubavna priča na filmskom platnu. Što se knjiga tiče, tu ne mogu ništa da kažem, jer je trenutno jedina koju sam pročitao i samim tim nema konkurenciju, ali nema sumnje da će ih biti još u narednom periodu.
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مذكرات حب
وأما من يرى أن روايات الحب لا بدّ أن تكون مُلئى
بكل ما يُندي الجبين ويخدش الحياء،
فليقرأ هذه الرواية
هذه الرواية قمّة فى النقاء والرقىّ
ومن النوع الذي لا يخشى الأب وجودها فى منزله
ذلك الحب الذى جمعهما والذى استمر -خاصة الذى استمر- لهو معجزة فى هذا الزمان
يتوقف اللسان عن الكلام أمام روعة البيان
وأما من يرى أن روايات الحب لا بدّ أن تكون مُلئى
بكل ما يُندي الجبين ويخدش الحياء،
فليقرأ هذه الرواية
هذه الرواية قمّة فى النقاء والرقىّ
ومن النوع الذي لا يخشى الأب وجودها فى منزله
ذلك الحب الذى جمعهما والذى استمر -خاصة الذى استمر- لهو معجزة فى هذا الزمان
يتوقف اللسان عن الكلام أمام روعة البيان
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EXCERPT: His best friend these days was Gus, a seventy year old black man who lived down the road. They had met a couple of weeks after Noah had bought the house, when Gus had shown up with some homemade liquor and Brunswick stew, and the two had spent their first evening together getting drunk and telling stories.
Now Gus would show up a couple of nights a week, usually around eight. With four kids and eleven grandchildren in the house, he needed to get out of the house now and then, and Noah couldn't blame him. Usually Gus would bring his harmonica, and after talking for a little while, they'd play a few songs together. Sometimes they played for hours.
He'd come to regard Gus as family. There really wasn't anyone else, at least not since his father died last year. He was an only child; his mother had died of influenza when he was two, and though he had wanted to at one time, he had never married.
But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast begins the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned from the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.
Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes.
MY THOUGHTS: I had just written this review, hit enter . . . and it disappeared - 'Poof!' So here we go again . . .
Although I am not particularly fond of the story, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks holds a very special place in my heart. This was the very first book that my now husband ever gave me. I like to take it out every now and then and reread it, not because of the story, but because of the precious memories it inspires.
Books can do that. Bring back wonderful memories. If I was rating The Notebook on that alone, it would earn 5 stars plus from me. But as for the actual story, it earns a little over three stars. It is a bit too sweet for my taste, but perfect for those times when you want a read that you can enjoy without having to think too much.
BTW, this is not the book he would choose for me now. He is the romantic in this relationship. He cries every time he watches 'Titanic'. I have yet to sit through it.
***.2
THE AUTHOR: Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually.
DISCLOSURE: I own my copy of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, published by Grand Central Publishing. It definitely isn't in pristine condition; it is well traveled and well loved. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
For an explanation of my rating system, please refer to my Goodreads.com profile page or the about page on sandysbookaday.Wordpress.com
This review and others are also published on Twitter, Instagram and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Now Gus would show up a couple of nights a week, usually around eight. With four kids and eleven grandchildren in the house, he needed to get out of the house now and then, and Noah couldn't blame him. Usually Gus would bring his harmonica, and after talking for a little while, they'd play a few songs together. Sometimes they played for hours.
He'd come to regard Gus as family. There really wasn't anyone else, at least not since his father died last year. He was an only child; his mother had died of influenza when he was two, and though he had wanted to at one time, he had never married.
But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast begins the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned from the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.
Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes.
MY THOUGHTS: I had just written this review, hit enter . . . and it disappeared - 'Poof!' So here we go again . . .
Although I am not particularly fond of the story, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks holds a very special place in my heart. This was the very first book that my now husband ever gave me. I like to take it out every now and then and reread it, not because of the story, but because of the precious memories it inspires.
Books can do that. Bring back wonderful memories. If I was rating The Notebook on that alone, it would earn 5 stars plus from me. But as for the actual story, it earns a little over three stars. It is a bit too sweet for my taste, but perfect for those times when you want a read that you can enjoy without having to think too much.
BTW, this is not the book he would choose for me now. He is the romantic in this relationship. He cries every time he watches 'Titanic'. I have yet to sit through it.
***.2
THE AUTHOR: Sparks lives in North Carolina. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually.
DISCLOSURE: I own my copy of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, published by Grand Central Publishing. It definitely isn't in pristine condition; it is well traveled and well loved. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
For an explanation of my rating system, please refer to my Goodreads.com profile page or the about page on sandysbookaday.Wordpress.com
This review and others are also published on Twitter, Instagram and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
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