The NoteBook by Nicholas Sparks

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by Jyoti Babel | on January 20th, 2011 | 8 comments

‘The Notebook’ by Nicholas Sparks is a simple yet heart rendering love story. It will make you smile and cry often. It is about the belief that true love never dies or dims, it remains with you through the thick and thins of life. I will definitely recommend reading it.

The story starts with eighty years Noah Calhoun reading out his ‘Notebook’ to a lady who does not remember him, in a nursing home. It is the story of his life, his love story. He does it every day, in the hope that it with stir her memory and she will remember things from the past which she seldom does these days with only a few exceptions!

As he reads out his notebook, the story flashes back to his past to October 1946. It is the time when he had recently returned from war to North Carolina. To keep himself busy and to forget the adversities of war he spends all his time restoring an old plantation house, which he has recently purchased to its old glory. Despite his best efforts, his memory often slips to a time when he had met Allie, her love, fifteen years ago. He has never been able to forget her, the summer they had spent together. He has finally learnt to content himself with the memories and thinks that he would never be able to find her. And suddenly one day she turns up!

Allie is engaged to another man, Lon Hammond-A well know man and their marriage is just three weeks away. But she realises that the memories of her long lost love has never dimmed all these years and that is what makes her go back and meet him one last time. Things that followed the meeting changes their lives.

The story does not end there, in fact it is quite the beginning of their beautiful love story. The ending is not exactly a happy or a sad one but a mixture of the too which will make you smile and cry at the same time. True love is eternal but some times memories fade away, because there is always something that is not in our hand, some circumstances in life we can’t change or avoid. The love described in the story is profound. It is poignant love story that will move you deeply.

To quote from the book:

“I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I have led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me,this has always been enough.”

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Abhinav Thursday - 20 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>I have read this book and seen the movie also. Here is a link to the movie rating. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332280/
Vibha Thursday - 20 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>Read this long time back. This reminded me of 'Bridges of Madison County' - another compelling love story.
Jyoti Thursday - 20 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>@ Abhinav.. Thanks for the link..
@Vibha.. I loved the book and will loook forward to reading the one u mentioned here..
Hema Friday - 21 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>Both the movie and the book are my fav.. I ALWAYS cry and smile reading this! I can never get tired of this..
Jyoti Friday - 21 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>@ Hema: Haven't seen thew movie.. will do if I get the chance.
ManPreet Kaur Saturday - 22 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>well i never seen this movie or book before.. but now i m intrested in watch.. :)
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samantha.1020 Sunday - 23 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>This is one of my favorite books and one of my favorite movies. I just love it!!! Great review.
LindyLouMac Monday - 31 / 01 / 2011 Reply

>I remember reading this a long time ago! Though I did not realise just how long ago it was, until I checked this morning that it was originally published in 1996!