The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Genre: Drama and Romance

Recommendable (out of 10): 10/10

Slogan: A bittersweet and irresistibly romantic love story.

WOW! This book is unbelievably good. Its about a poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences. In a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man named Duke begins to read a love story from his notebook to a female fellow patient. The story begins at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, local country boy Noah Calhoun sees seventeen-year-old heiress Allie Hamilton for the first time and immediately falls in love with her. She continuously refuses his persistent advances until their well-meaning friends lure them together; they then get to know each other on a midnight walk through empty Seabrook.

Noah and Allie spend an idyllic summer together. One night, a week before Allie is to leave town, she and Noah go up to an abandoned house called The Windsor Plantation. Noah tells her that he hopes to buy the house, and Allie makes him promise that the house will be white, with blue shutters, a walk-around porch, and a room that overlooks the creek so she can paint. They intend to make love for the first time, but are interrupted by Noah's friend Fin with the news that Allie's parents have the police out looking for her. When Allie returns home, her disapproving parents ban her from seeing Noah again. Allie fights with Noah outside and the two decide to break up. Allie immediately regrets the decision but Noah drives away. The next morning, Allie's mother reveals that they are going home that morning. Allie frantically tries to find Noah, but is forced to leave without saying good-bye. The Hamiltons then send Allie to New York, where she begins attending Sarah Lawrence College. Noah, devastated by his separation from Allie, writes her one letter a day for a year, only to get no reply as Allie's mother keeps the letters from her. Noah and Allie have no choice but to move on with their lives. Allie continues to attend school.

This book is highly recommendable and I'm sorry if i have written to much to give out any spoilers. But this book is so fantastic! this is just a bit of what happens in the first few chapters but the book carries on. I think every body should read this. And Nicholas Sparks is a genius.