إنها أجمل و أعظم قصة حب قرأتها في حياتي !!


" عندما أراك ، يا عزيزتي ، في الصباح قبل أن تأخذي حمامك ، أو أثناء وقوفك في مرسمك و الألوان تغطي ملابسك ، و شعرك متشابك و عيناك مرهقتان ، أدرك أنك أجمل إمرأة في هذا العالم . "

" عليك أن تتيقني من أننا لن نفترق
لأن روحنا واحدة ؛
فعندما يظهر الخيط الأولى من الفجر
يضيء وجهك ، فأقترب منك
لأبحث عن قلبي . "

" يتحول الحب في هذه الساعات الأخيرة و الرقيقة
إلى شيء حساس و نقي ،
و يأتي ضوء الصباح بأشعته الناعمة و القوية ؛
ليوقظ الحب الصادق . "

Someone mentioned to me that she likes that I also review/record books that I've read and don't like. Well, this book is right up there for me.

Back when guyczuk was in 4th grade, his teacher came to me one day, saying I had to read this book she'd just read. It was the best book EVER and she stayed up all night to finish it, crying as she read. Being the sort of mother who likes to see what makes her son's 24 year old teacher (who spent more time on the internet planning her upcoming wedding than she did teaching) tick, I borrowed the book.

I. Hated. It.

Sappy, tugging at your heart-strings, sentimental, pap. Totally unrealistic situation for an Alzheimer's patient, too, and I know from Alzheimer's, trust me. Things just don't happen like that, and I could not be charitable enough to engage the willing suspension of disbelief mode. If the writing had been good, I could have given it credit. But let's not go there.

My dislike for the book had 3 consequences:

1. I decided to give Sparks one more try. Nope. My opinion didn't change. You've heard of do not call lists? He's on my "do not read" list. I only BookCross copies of his book I've been given. Won't even pick them up second hand.

2. When the film of this movie was made here in Charleston, I had the chance to be an extra. As much as I would have liked that experience, I turned it down. And yes, I have NOT seen the movie.

3. One day I was in Books-A-Million. There was a huge crowd of women fluttering around an author. He was a clean cut, preppie-ish kind of guy (I remember that his blue shirt had an unfortunate white collar.) When I found out it was Nicholas Sparks, doing a book-signing, I tried to skirt around the crowd. His handler stopped me.

"Don't you want to meet the author?"

"No thanks," I replied.

"But he's rather good. Have you read his books?"

"Umm. Yes, but I'd rather not meet him."

"You've read his books and don't want to meet him? Why not???"

"I'd rather not say," I said, trying to break the iron grip she had on my arm.

"He'll sign one for you."

"No thank you."

At this point, my struggling to get free caught the author's attention. He rose from his signing table, the red sea of women clustering around him parted and he came over to me. He was quite polite, and attentive, and inquired why I was so adamant about not participating in the book signing. Again, I demurred. He insisted. Did I like his book? Well-- no, not exactly. He pushed for details. I'd had enough and let loose with what I thought.

To give him credit, he didn't blanch though his handler did, and I actually heard a hiss from one of the ladies in the crowd. He thanked me for my opinion, and said he would rather have someone who vehemently disliked his book that someone who said it was so-so. At least he'd stirred a strong emotion in me. To this day, that is the only thing I like about Nicholas Sparks.

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Es el primer libro que leo de Nicholas Sparks y debo decir que me sorprendió. Pensé que eran historias muy melosas y que todas se parecían entre sí entonces nunca quise darle una oportunidad.
De esta historia tampoco he vista la pelicula, justamente por la misma razón por la que no leía los libros.
Es un libro muy corto que se puede leer en una tarde y cuenta, resumidamente, la historia de Noah y Ally desde que se conocen de jovenes hasta ya ancianos. Los protagonistas ya desde jovenes toman muy enserio en amor que se sienten y por esto la historia se diferencian de otras porque no hay caprichos sino que es un amor maduro.
A lo largo del libro vemos como tienen que superar los obstaculos para poder estar juntos. Lo que más me gustó fue como los superan pues demuestra la seriedad de la historia.

История за неугасваща любов. Единственият любовен роман, който ме е трогнал така и който ще остави следа дълго време.

1 star

n  In a Wordn: boring

n  Initial thoughtsn

*Opens book*
*Reads book*
*Wonders if watching paint dry might actually be more exciting*
*Closes book*
*Yawns*

n  The Storyn

We’ve all seen the movie right? So it's that... but with all the emotion sucked out of it.

n  Prosn

The beauty of lifetime love was represented in this story. The kind of love that leaves you falling in love with that person every day no matter what life brings your way. Like, real life love.

n  Consn

The romance was a snooze fest.

So here’s what I expected from this book...

Lots of inner turmoil and heart-wrenching romantic gestures…. Also, kissing in the rain… sexy tear filled kissing in the rain. Like the kind of ugly emotional kissing where you can’t tell whose tears are whose or where your soul ends and his begins. I expected to be rendered an utter emotional mess by this book!

This is not what I got

I don’t know if it’s Spark’s writing style or the perspective of the story or what. But I felt incredibly detached from everyone and everything in this story. Seriously, I should have been a blubbering mess! I wanted to be heartbroken and feel struggle and longing and pain and really and truly the only emotion I felt was boredom.

It went beyond meh and into the realm of “Please make it stop I can’t handle the extreme nothingness of this book anymore”.

n  In Conclusionn

I would suggest watching the movie and maybe using the book as a doorstop.

A good quick read. I enjoyed the telling of this book. I saw the movie first and I like the ending of the movie better. I thought the ending of the book was strange and cheesy. The relationship of Noah and Ally is better in the book. This is a classic love story. Noah is the main character and falls for Ally. They have a beautiful relationship and his love is pure and deep. It is a short book and you can read it in one or two sittings. This is an enjoyable read. If you can't stand any kind of mushiness then you might look elsewhere. Noah is a poet and I love the poetry peppered throughout the book.

Primero vi la película y me emocioné con el final. Guardaba un recuerdo precioso de la historia hasta que un buen amigo me dijo que la peli tiene una escena (cuando Noah se cuelga de la noria y amenaza a Allie con tirarse si no le da una cita) que es la antítesis del romanticismo. Noah manipula a Allie coaccionándola y eso no es romántico... eso es algo muy tóxico.

A raíz de la conversación con mi amigo me surgió la duda de si Nicholas Sparks también escribió la misma escena o no. He leído El cuaderno de Noah y no hay noria ni nada similar.

La novela es cortita, el amor entre los protagonistas es indestructible y me volvió a ocurrir que la parte en la que ambos son ancianos me pareció mucho más conmovedora y emotiva que cuando ambos están en la flor de la vida. Amor sempiterno ❤.

Favorite Quotes

I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.

"A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on god days, for falling in love.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

And when her lips meet mine, I feel a strange tingling I have never felt before…and suddenly a miracle…and I discover a forgotten paradise, unchanged all this time, ageless like the stars. I feel the warmth of her body, and…I allow myself to slip away. I close my eyes and become a mighty ship in churning waters, strong and fearless, and she is my sails.

I liked this as much as I could like any book that contains the word “loins.”

•2,5•
Σε μικρότερη ηλικία είχα τρελαθεί με τη ταινία. Τώρα δε μου έκανε την ίδια αίσθηση.

Does such true love really exist? Nicholas Sparks, all I can tell is that your wife Cathy has been lucky to marry you!I cried like a baby.Yes, true love will return to you, maybe not in a very perfect condition, maybe with a fiancee, maybe not with a good heart, but surely it'll return.

So, I didn't love this book, even though every other girl on planet earth does. Here's the deal: it's an old guy at the end of his life, showing how undyingly committed and in love he is with his elderly wife, who is dying of Alzheimer's. Sweet, right? Except here is how he shows his love: every day, he reads her the story of their love. It involves hooking up as teenagers, then being apart without communication for years and years, yet yearning for one another while sleeping around with other people, then getting back together to fornicate like crazy and cheat on her fiance and break up her soon to be wedding. If that is not eternal and undying love, I don't know what is. There is no way you can go wrong picking a life partner if you are horny and running away from responsibility and commitment, as this book clearly shows. That is the only way to find a man who will love you and change your diapers for you when you get old.

Okay, so he wasn't changing her diapers, but you get the point. I try to go with the romance of the book, and it is romantic in the eldery love sort of way (hence the 3 stars, because I figure eventually they grew up), but I can't help but think the main characters are sleazy. The end. Throw tomatoes at me now.