I knew I would regret reading this.

I have watched the movie and its always been my favorite. Somehow I was never able to read the book, mostly because I always cry harder when I read than when I watch a movie. I still thought I would be able to stay dry eyed as I this time knew how it would end. Oh my how wrong was I. Nicholas Sparks seems like a nice guy, he even warned me about the crying on the very first page.
Still I wailed like a baby. A Walk to Remember is such a beautiful story and its only 170pages long! It has got to be my favorite romance novel. I fell for Landon just as he fell for Jamie. Quickly and unexpectedly.

I only picked up this book from the library because they didn't have the specific books I was looking for in, so I walked through the aisles and randomly selected a few so the trip wasn't a waste. When I saw it on the shelf, I remembered that someone a while ago had recommended that I read it and "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks, and because books are almost always better than the movie versions, I decided to give it a shot.

I actually liked the movie when I saw it. I am a sappy girl like that sometimes. I don't read romance novels, and I don't watch chick flicks like they are going out of style, but Dirty Dancing will always be one of my favourite movies, because I grew up watching it over and over. So, sometimes I fall in love with a sappy story.

In some ways I prefer the movie to the book, which might be only because I had seen it before I read it. I struggled with whether to give it two or three stars, because I felt like it was more than just "ok", it was decent, but when I look back at other books I had given three stars to, I really did not feel like it was on par with them. I would have probably loved this had I read it when I was thirteen or fourteen. Maybe I have gotten more cynical over time, or maybe it's just that I would have related more at that age, I don't know, but as sweet as the storyline was, it just didn't pull on my heartstrings like it clearly was meant to. I know I teared up during the movie, but the book didn't do it for me for some reason. I don't think it was because I already knew what was going to happen - it would have been pretty obvious where it was heading had I not ever seen the movie, and I have re-read books before and still been as touched as the first time. I think it just fell slightly short in capturing the tender moments, and that is where the movie was able to pick it up and elaborate.

I wouldn't recommend it necessarily to anyone, but I also wouldn't suggest to someone that they shouldn't read it. I've definitely read worse.

This book is a masterpiece. In 240 pages, Sparks gives us all the feels. Every time I read it, I weep. On your first time through, there are all the surprises in the plot that keep you reading and reaching for the tissues. Then you reread and the anticipation makes those earlier bits so much sweeter and meaningful. Since I first read this book about 20 years ago, I keep comparing the other books from Sparks to this one. So far there have been some good ones--most with many more pages. None has compared with the story of Carter and Jamie from 1958. This is one I treasure. I hope you are as blessed by the reading as I have been.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ I Corinthians 13:13

Hated it. First and last Sparks book for me. Tried way to hard to go for the tear jerking moments.

Nicholas Sparks is one of the many favorite authors I have. I have read many of his other novels and instantly fell in love with all of them, so this certainly won't be my last book by Nicholas Sparks. If you have any other recommendations of Nicholas Sparks books that I should read, please feel free to let me know!!!

A Walk To Remember was so heart touching and left a lump in my throat, as I continued to read but also as I finished the story. I knock myself over for waiting so long to read this novel. At first, I wasn't really catching on to the story but then I started reading more and it finally sunk it as to what was happening and made more sense to me. When that normally happens i automatically put the book down, but with A Walk To Remember I couldnt, I just had to keep reading.

A Walk To Remember is told in the point of view of, 17 year old Landon Carter.
Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan are two 17 year olds, seniors in high school. Landon isn't an athlete, he doesn't play any instruments, he doesn't exactly know what he wants to do with his life after high school, so he submits an application to UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Jamie is not what you think of a 17 year old to be, she's such a sweet kind hearted person, loves the bible, loves to help people out even when they're extremely rude to her.

I often found myself a little teary eyed, smiling, and laughing while reading A Walk To Remember, I felt so bad for everything that was happening to Jamie, and wanted to just reach into the book and hug her. At first I thought Landon was a jerk but then the story went on and the things he did, made me change my mind about him. All I can say is that you must read this heartfelt novel.

Nicholas tells you that you will smile and then cry in the end and even if you try, you will not be able to prove him wrong.


See Landon falling in love with a girl he had never expected in the seventeenth year of his life.The teenage love story takes a turn when a secret that Jamie had kept from Landon is revealed.

Keep in mind the title of the book, it will further help Nicholas in fulling his promise to make us cry.

And at the very end of the book, you will cry again but not the for the reasons before.

Ugh - really, don't waste your time.

first book of 2016 is a reread! I haven't read this book in a really long time. I forgot how short it was, it took me about an hour and a half to get through.

I still love it as much as I remember. Yes, its different than the movie, and I watched the movie first, many years ago...but the book is great, and its probably my favorite Sparks book to date.

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Is is me or do you just hate when the movie add things that wasnt there in the book.

Read this years ago, watched the movie years ago. Re-read this today, re-watched the movie today. Currently sitting with a tub of mint chocolate ice cream, a swollen face, and puffy eyes, unsuccessfully trying to control my runny nose with my chest feeling like somebody just put their hand in and took my heart out - very roughly. I love this book so much. I dont think I cried this much even when I was slapped by my mum five times in a row, nope.

**4 Stars**

A Walk to Remember is a sweet, lovable, romantic story that will tear at your heart strings.

I'm sure many of you know that the majority of Nicholas Sparks’ books are tearjerkers, aiming to make the reader fall in love with the novel, only to break your heart in the end. It's the first Nicholas Sparks book I read and I’m glad I started with it because it was beautiful.

This is a love story, where instead of the good girl falling for the bad boy, it's the other way around. Landon is not the kind of boy you’d expect to like Jamie, the quiet girl who always carries around a Bible with her. But nevertheless, destiny brings the two together in an unexpected way.

I have seen the movie adaptation years ago when it came out, so I already knew the story, but I also know the saying 'the book is always better than the film', so of course I had to read it at some point. It's such an easy book to get caught up in and I didn't want to put it down until the end.

I like the book better than the movie.

the struggle of jamie and langdon for their love over death...sounds cliche, but i think the book is the second best romance story next to Love Story by Erich Segal.

try to read it at 2 am in the morning when all you hear is silent and you'll get into the story until you burst into tears...

i smiled.
i cried.

nice.