Review
If you thought The Notebook was a tearjerker, get out the hankies, pull up a chair, and get ready to have your heart monkey-wrenched by Nicholas Sparks’s second star-crossed love story, Message in a Bottle. When Theresa Osborne takes a much-needed summer holiday at Cape Cod, she finds a lot more than a break from the hustle and bustle. On an early-morning jog along Cape Cod Bay, she comes across a corked bottle with a scrolled-up message inside that reads, “My Dearest Catherine, I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. . . ” It bobbles around in the same vein for several more paragraphs and ends w
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Message in a Bottle is a unique romantic story and a fine novel. It all starts when Theresa Osborne is vacationing in Cape Code and comes across - you guessed it - a message in a bottle. The message is from a man “Garrett” to his wife about his intensely felt love. Osborne, a middle aged divorcee with little romance in her own life is intrigued enough to start searching out others who may have found similar messages. As she collects them, she herself falls in love with Garrett (although she has yet to admit it to herself) and decides to search for him. She finds him in a small, North Carolina town and the romance emerges. But of course - they are such different people that problems crop up. He is a widower feeling guilty and not over his wife and a small town kind of guy. She’s a big city gal with a career. But the relationship develops with ups and downs nonetheless. Sparks is excellent in fully developing the personalities of his characters and building empathy in the reader. He has done a fine job here. If you didn’t like the movie - read the book anyway. It’s much better.
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Not one for romance novels or any of this lovey dovey stuff, reminds me of those Mills and Boons Books
I rented the video as a change from action/thriller and I have to say I never cried so much in my life! It was a beautiful film and I had to set about looking for the book as I know how Hollywood likes to ‘butcher’ some well written novels ie Grisham and the book was even better than I expected! Read the novel and you will not be disappointed. Even though are some story discrepancies between the movie and novel. Whilst I knew the ending was coming I still cried. It makes you believe that true love exists and you can love again. The cynical people will believe what they want. But why Mr Sparks did you let hollywood have its wicked ways with your book. . . .
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Message in a Bottle is one incredible book. The plot of the story is whimsical and will have you dreaming that maybe someday you’ll find a love as strong as these two characters in this novel. Basically this is one sad book, and the people who rate it low, are only doing so because this book doesn’t have a cheerful “happily ever after” ending. While I read the book, especially the end, tears slowly streamed down my face as I tried to understand why the story went the way it did. The fact that Garrett was able to love his wife with so much emotion, just shakes you to the core because it comes to the point of obession. Message in a Bottle is a story about a woman named Theresa Osborne, a newspaper columnist, who finds a bottle washed up shore one day. She proceeds to read the letter inside and there a history of unforgotten love unfolds. Garrett Blake, trying to cope with the lose of his deceased wife, Catherine, writes letters to her and send them out to sea, hoping that one day they’ll reach Europe. As the story progresses, Theresa finds Garrett and they give into the emotions that are growing between them and fall in love with each other. But Garrett isn’t ready to let go of his deceased wife yet, so the problem is introduced. . . read the story and you’ll be crying but still happy at the same time. This book teaches us about the aspect of love and how it’s possible to love once more even though you think that you’ll never be able to love again. And the fact that love is solid, and so much stronger than simple lust. Recommended.