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Nights In Rodanthe.
Yesterday I read Nights in Rodanthe, as part of an attempt to better myself and my mind over the Summer holidays, and I'm just going to say that this book affected me so profoundly that I'm disturbed. I cried my way through the last 20 pages, and the pages were blurred because I couldn't see through the tears. So suffer your way through my incredibly emo review of Nicholas Sparks' book, recently adapted for film.
Summary: Recent divorcee` Adrienne Willis agrees to look after her friend's seaside North Carolina inn for the weekend, with the only visitor being another middle aged divorcee by the name of Paul Flanner. In typical fashion, the two fall madly and inexplicably in love over the weekend, sharing their experiences with each other and healing in the process. Unfortunately, fate tears them apart as Paul eventually leaves to pursue a doctors-without-borders type deal in Ecuador, where he hopes to rebuild his relationship with his son. *SPOILERS* Although the stay was only to be for a year, and every great romance isn't without tragedy, Paul dies in a mudslide to save his son, and Adrienne is left abandoned yet again, recounting her story to her recently widowed daughter some 14 years later.
My Thoughts: I'm not one for romance movies or novels usually, but this one fucking yanked at my heartstrings. The romance is unexplainable but strangely believable, with Paul and Adrienne having real chemistry, unlike another romance novel we're all familiar with. Fortunately, the exchange between Paul and Adrienne never turns cheesy, and it's super easy to empathise with the characters, which is not an easy task for an author to coerce his readers into doing, especially because these two characters have decades of experience on me, and those experiences are so far removed from shit I'm going through now. =/
Like I said, I cried my little emo heart out during the last quarter of the book - although Paul's death seemed inevitable, and the 14 year gap between the romance occurring and Adrienne sharing her tale infers that something tragic happened. Despite this being predictable, it was no less depressing, and frankly it killed my hopes for the future. D= Although I never try to take romance novels and Rom-Com's too seriously, I got annoyingly involved in this book, and it invoked a lot of different emotions. *cries tears of blood and goffik type stuff*
When Adrienne's recounting her story to her daughter, there's a few issues about how her teenage kids ignored her whilst she was going through this romance and subsequent loss, and it made me feel like a rude fucker in my own household. D= I admit that I try to ignore my parent's issues half the time, and it made me uber curious about what kind of shit they could be hiding. But it also opened my eyes to how our relationships with each other seem to be slowly deteriorating. However, that's another incredibly whiny emofest journal for another time. >_>
Verdict: 4.5 sparkles out of 5. A really fucking great book, and it totes impressed me despite the fact that I walk around like an insensitive, ignorant, arrogant douchebag half the time. It roped me in when I'm totally anti-romance on the surface, and made me bawl like a little bitch. I recommend reading it, although grab like 5 boxes of tissues beforehand and don't read it in public. x_x
-- Toodles, Jerry
Summary: Recent divorcee` Adrienne Willis agrees to look after her friend's seaside North Carolina inn for the weekend, with the only visitor being another middle aged divorcee by the name of Paul Flanner. In typical fashion, the two fall madly and inexplicably in love over the weekend, sharing their experiences with each other and healing in the process. Unfortunately, fate tears them apart as Paul eventually leaves to pursue a doctors-without-borders type deal in Ecuador, where he hopes to rebuild his relationship with his son. *SPOILERS* Although the stay was only to be for a year, and every great romance isn't without tragedy, Paul dies in a mudslide to save his son, and Adrienne is left abandoned yet again, recounting her story to her recently widowed daughter some 14 years later.
My Thoughts: I'm not one for romance movies or novels usually, but this one fucking yanked at my heartstrings. The romance is unexplainable but strangely believable, with Paul and Adrienne having real chemistry, unlike another romance novel we're all familiar with. Fortunately, the exchange between Paul and Adrienne never turns cheesy, and it's super easy to empathise with the characters, which is not an easy task for an author to coerce his readers into doing, especially because these two characters have decades of experience on me, and those experiences are so far removed from shit I'm going through now. =/
Like I said, I cried my little emo heart out during the last quarter of the book - although Paul's death seemed inevitable, and the 14 year gap between the romance occurring and Adrienne sharing her tale infers that something tragic happened. Despite this being predictable, it was no less depressing, and frankly it killed my hopes for the future. D= Although I never try to take romance novels and Rom-Com's too seriously, I got annoyingly involved in this book, and it invoked a lot of different emotions. *cries tears of blood and goffik type stuff*
When Adrienne's recounting her story to her daughter, there's a few issues about how her teenage kids ignored her whilst she was going through this romance and subsequent loss, and it made me feel like a rude fucker in my own household. D= I admit that I try to ignore my parent's issues half the time, and it made me uber curious about what kind of shit they could be hiding. But it also opened my eyes to how our relationships with each other seem to be slowly deteriorating. However, that's another incredibly whiny emofest journal for another time. >_>
Verdict: 4.5 sparkles out of 5. A really fucking great book, and it totes impressed me despite the fact that I walk around like an insensitive, ignorant, arrogant douchebag half the time. It roped me in when I'm totally anti-romance on the surface, and made me bawl like a little bitch. I recommend reading it, although grab like 5 boxes of tissues beforehand and don't read it in public. x_x
-- Toodles, Jerry
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| Posted by jerrydazzlepants on 12/01/2008 5:44 PM | Visits: 122 |
THE RARE AMAZING ROMANCE BOOK.
Thank you for writing this review and getting my lazy ass away from the cookbook and magazine section of the bookstore. :)
i dont think i read it. i only books that involve gruesome murders, lulz or some sort of awesome social commentary