A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks

8.69

Rating: 8.69 | Votes: 13

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Submitted by: soccerchickkt from Mississippi
This book was "marvelous"! It had me smiling through the whole thing. I expected it to be more like the movie, but it definetely surpasses it by far. It's just so touching. It's easy to read so you aren't sitting trying to understand the sentence you just read. It's thoroughly enjoyable! Quite aplaudable!

One of Sparks' Greatest Love Stories
Review written by: monique ritter From
A Walk to Remember is probably one of Nicholas Sparks' greatest love stories - and if you're a fan of his work, you know that Sparks is not short on love stories. Though I am a huge fan of his writing, I sometimes feel that many of his books follow similar storyline structures and are sometimes predictable. However, this book is by far an exception! Right from the beginning, you are brought into Landon Carter's world of success and popularity and Jamie Sullivan's world as somewhat of a social outcast. Yet circumstances beyond their control bring them together and, soon after, they find themselves falling in love - certainly an unlikely romance. Okay, so I guess that sounds like a typical Nicholas Sparks' story, but I promise you this one will stand out above all others. The two teenagers, Landon and Jamie, are a perfect example of how opposites attract, but also prove that even teenage love can be real and life-changing as well. Though Jamie struggles to overcome her secret illness alone, Landon forces her to open up and allow for him to help her through her heartrending battles with leukemia. As I said before, this is an emotional and moving must-read novel by Nicholas Sparks. Just make sure you equip yourself with plenty of kleenex!

- Monique Ritter, Author of The Song Unsung

One of Sparks' Greatest Love Stories
Review written by: monique ritter From
A Walk to Remember is probably one of Nicholas Sparks' greatest love stories - and if you're a fan of his work, you know that Sparks is not short on love stories. Though I am a huge fan of his writing, I sometimes feel that many of his books follow similar storyline structures and are sometimes predictable. However, this book is by far an exception! Right from the beginning, you are brought into Landon Carter's world of success and popularity and Jamie Sullivan's world as somewhat of a social outcast. Yet circumstances beyond their control bring them together and, soon after, they find themselves falling in love - certainly an unlikely romance. Okay, so I guess that sounds like a typical Nicholas Sparks' story, but I promise you this one will stand out above all others. The two teenagers, Landon and Jamie, are a perfect example of how opposites attract, but also prove that even teenage love can be real and life-changing as well. Though Jamie struggles to overcome her secret illness alone, Landon forces her to open up and allow for him to help her through her heartrending battles with leukemia. As I said before, this is an emotional and moving must-read novel by Nicholas Sparks. Just make sure you equip yourself with plenty of kleenex!

- Monique Ritter, Author of The Song Unsung

A Book To Remember
This has to be my second favorite Sparks novel after The Last Song. I got interest in the novel after I watched the movie, and I was not disappointed at all. A very great read, and be sure to read with a box of tissues near you!

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Review written by: Cai Yixin Jeremy From
I never knew who Nicholas Sparks was before, never read his books. Maybe I have seen them on bookshelves but they looked to me as part of a literary land of sobs and love I have never cared about much in my life. It was horror thrillers, psychological thrillers for me. Nicholas Sparks never fell under those categories.

But one thing I did do was watch the movies that his books were the basis for. Not surprisingly, since I had a close friend who took in such movies like they were collectibles. The first movie I came in contact with, watched in earnest one stuffy, humid evening, was A Walk to Remember, which touched me with the innocence and tenderness of teenage love and the sadness and tragedy of unrealized life. It broke something within me and made me realize the potential of romance fiction, if done in a way that made the goals of the characters seemingly unattainable. Broken relationships, tight family circumstances that would hinder lovers, you name it. Such has been done before, but never in the way have I seen in A Walk to Remember.

So I started to hunt down the book. Got it finally on a day in town and I tore into it. Took no more than a couple of days and, yes, it does have its differences from the movie (or vice versa, rather). After finishing it and many times when I was knee deep in the story, I had tinges of regret, having already watched the movie. The movie spoiled many of the heart tugging moments I would have had if I never watched it. It does have much of the same tenderness the film had but this book feels like it has its own soul and life.

What can be said about Nicholas' descriptions, both about the characters and the locales, other than that they are surprisingly sparse for descriptions, allowing for much of the miscellaneous details to happen instead in our vivid imaginations. Perhaps that could be a technique he employs to allow for better resonance, but one could argue how this could simply be Nicholas' style of writing. He prefers to let the story be about heart matters. Emotional factors are far more important to Nicholas than the details of a character's clothing. However, whatever detail he put in there about the characters only serves the purpose of driving the story to an emotional level that Nicholas wants the readers to be. One perfect example would be the descriptions of Jamie Sullivan, the normal and yet immensely beautiful main character who manages to find true love (and it could be true, if you leave a little bit of room for disbelief). She turns from a perfectly normal looking girl to someone almost painful to imagine as a skinny, bony girl. This only brings the reader to tears, as it did for me.

Dozen of moments in the book can make your heart yearn to turn the pages, tender moments like Jamie and Scott falling in love, the degrees of love they go through, from bring friends to being co-actors in a play to being eventually together forever. Poignant love and special friendship are the important undertones for the book as it goes along at pages at a time. But one can't help to realize that the special relationship between Scott and Jamie isn't all that unlikely. Uncommon would be a better description.

Nicholas could have added a little more flavor in the dialogue too and that would have pushed A Walk to Remember to being a five star book. Instances when Scott could've articulate something more likely than a mere "I'm afraid, too" or "How can you say that?" What's worse is that this lack of depth in dialogue runs all through the book.

One thing: never watch the movie before reading A Walk to Remember. It made me cry and I'm not afraid to say that as a male reader. If there is a perfect introduction to the heartbreak and sobby genre (haha) or to Nicholas' work in general, this must be it. The premise seems interesting enough and it has the ability to gobble up chunks of your time while giving you an escape of unbridled romance. If it won over a hardened reader such as me, I guarantee it doesn't sound as corny as my review lets on.

sit down with a booklight bcz u can not put this book down
i loved this book soooooooo much Nicholas Sparks is on of my #1 authors.I recomend this book to anyone who loves a good love story.