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Loading... Message in a Bottleby Nicholas Sparks
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I would love this book, if only it weren't so sad. Nicholas Sparks is one of the most romantic authors out there, except for that part at the end of each book where he rips your guts out. It's a fatal flaw. I would read more of his work, but I just don't think I can take it - the knowledge of certain and expected pain to come. Guess you have to decide whether it's worth it to you. Gone With the Wind is a great story with a sad ending too. I think it's a question of just deserts. Scarlett and Rhett, at some level, deserved their fate for being willfully stupid throughout so much of the book. Nicholas Sparks' characters are all very nice people who try hard. They never deserve what's coming to them. (  ) annie1378 | Dec 26, 2009 |  While on vacation in Cape Cod, Theresa Osborne runs across what appears to be a bottle laying on a beach. Unexpectedly she finds what appears to be a love letter. She thinks nothing of it but as time goes on, she begins to find even more letters once she goes back to her hometown, working at her job as a columnist writer. Next thing she knows, she's flying to North Carolina, determined to find the man known as Garrett, who wrote all the beautiful letters so many people besides her found lying on beaches around the eastern coast in the past three years...A definite must-read, I could hardly put the book down! ^.^ (  ) kissmeimgone | Nov 19, 2009 | What a wonderful, awe- inspiring story. I will say it is full of surprises. I saw the movie after I read the book and the movie doesn't even begin to measure up to the book. This is a very tender, romantic story, a must read for those who have a weakness for love stories (but make sure you have a box of kleenex nearby)! ( ) mamagworld | Sep 29, 2009 | This was a wonderful book! It was very romantic and just really wonderful! I don't want to give anything away so that is all I'll say, but read it! ( ) swilliams1203 | Jul 30, 2009 | Predictable and emotionally manipulative. Hardly worth the time. (  )1  materbach | Jul 15, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Garret may eat quiche, but no bother--before you can say "Look! I found two more letters!" Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat, The Happenstance. From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past--or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her "I'm a super churchgoing guy now that I've run out on my wife" ex-husband that she hasn't tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what's Garret's bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is.
Message in a Bottle has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike--it's sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter. --Rebekah Warren
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