Sparks-I think Your Name is Fake.
The Lucky One
By Nicholas Sparks
# Pgs: 416
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Overview:
After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he experiences a sudden streak of luck — winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph — his lucky charm.
Back home in Colorado, Thibault can't seem to get the woman in the photograph out of his mind and he sets out on a journey across the country to find her. But Thibault is caught off guard by the strong attraction he feels for the woman he encounters in North Carolina - Elizabeth, a divorced mother — and he keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate love affair, his secret soon threatens to tear them apart — destroying not only their love, but also their lives.
Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, THE LUCKY ONE is an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love.
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Review:
It's true that this book has been out for a while now, and if you don't know that it has been made into a movie well... now you do.
I read a couple of Nicholas Sparks' books mostly because my sister is obsessed with this author. I have to admit, while I'm not completely into the whole dramatic, mushy-gushy romance types of books, this wasn't half bad. In fact, it seemed to have just the right amount of everything. The horrors of war, the disgust that came with reading through the mind of a bad cop, the life of a single mother just trying to survive...
The book didn't turn out any of the ways I thought it would as my own choices would've strongly differed... but then again, I've never been in the position that some of these characters have been. It was saddening towards the end, and slightly misleading, but I'll let you read those chapters and decide for yourself.
This wasn't a perfect book, definitely not one of Sparks' best, but it was still able to evoke enough emotion for me to cry at the end and... I'm really not a crier. Some of you are probably going to disagree with me, but as I've stated, this isn't really my type of book. And it was good, just not good enough to make me want to read another of Sparks' books. I guess I'm not really the fan my sister is.
I guess I'd have to rate this as a two or three out of five.
Sorry Sparks, but this book just didn't really do it for me~
~and I think your name is fake dear Nicholas Sparks. You write romance books, so like when true lovers kiss and feel the "Sparks" flying, perhaps you expect the readers to too? Feel the "Sparks" fly, that is, when reading your books.
Yup. I think your name is fake.
I read a couple of Nicholas Sparks' books mostly because my sister is obsessed with this author. I have to admit, while I'm not completely into the whole dramatic, mushy-gushy romance types of books, this wasn't half bad. In fact, it seemed to have just the right amount of everything. The horrors of war, the disgust that came with reading through the mind of a bad cop, the life of a single mother just trying to survive...
The book didn't turn out any of the ways I thought it would as my own choices would've strongly differed... but then again, I've never been in the position that some of these characters have been. It was saddening towards the end, and slightly misleading, but I'll let you read those chapters and decide for yourself.
This wasn't a perfect book, definitely not one of Sparks' best, but it was still able to evoke enough emotion for me to cry at the end and... I'm really not a crier. Some of you are probably going to disagree with me, but as I've stated, this isn't really my type of book. And it was good, just not good enough to make me want to read another of Sparks' books. I guess I'm not really the fan my sister is.
I guess I'd have to rate this as a two or three out of five.
Sorry Sparks, but this book just didn't really do it for me~
~and I think your name is fake dear Nicholas Sparks. You write romance books, so like when true lovers kiss and feel the "Sparks" flying, perhaps you expect the readers to too? Feel the "Sparks" fly, that is, when reading your books.
Yup. I think your name is fake.
Loved this book! Liked it much better than the movie. Making the transformation took so much away from the glory of the book itself. Making it a movie was a mistake in my perspective.
ReplyDeleteI thought the book was pretty good, it managed to make me bawl my eyes out, though it's not Sparks' best. There's nothing really special about the movie, it didn't make me cry, but Zac actually kinda looked hot in it. ^^
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