A Walk to Remember Paperback – 25 Jun. 2019

I’d seen the movie, and liked it enough to had a go at reading the book at last. Let me say that the book is better and different in many ways. It’s far from easy to review books you love. I’m not usually into sweet romance and too perfect characters, but this book is an exception.Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High, when it was 1958, and there is a lot of telling instead of showing, but it doesn’t make me love the book less. It is an easy read, and it's impossible not to care about the characters and get carried away.Jamie Sullivan is the daughter of the town's Baptist minister. She’s a quiet girl who always carries a Bible with her schoolbooks. She takes care of her widowed father, rescues hurt animals, and helps out at the local orphanage. She is kind and selfless.Landon Carter, however, is very different. He is the son of a congressman who is rarely around, and a rich kid who mixes with the cool kids. He also litters at the cemetery and is sort of a bad boy.When Landon finds himself without a date for the homecoming dance, he thinks Jamie is his only option. He doesn’t care for her at all, his friends make fun of her because of the way she is, looks, and dresses, yet … it’s better to go with Jamie than without a date. Jamie agrees with one condition—he can’t fall in love with her. Jamie says that because in fact she's hiding a secret that would leave both devastated if a romance developed between them.I had an issue here. I didn’t find believable that the rich guy who mixes with other popular students wouldn’t find a date, but I got past that, and still give it 5 stars. It is really a beautiful, heart-touching and inspiring story, and it had me in tears by the end.

a lovely read from Nicholas Sparks - perfect for a lazy day in summer!however, (and this is surprising)i found the movie to be far more touching than the book. yes, the book is moving and bittersweet, but the movie just had a heartbreaking edge to it. maybe it was the "List" and the "two places at once"...little details that, had they been in the book, would have made it so much more moving. i feel like the book was a little rushed, but the movie stretched it out nicely.but overall, a light, sweet, read.smiling through the tears - it wouldn't be a Sparks book without that feeling! :)A Walk To Remember: It all comes down to who's by your side

Very good.

There are bad love stories; there are good love stories and then there is A Walk To Remember a superb and beautiful love story. It set in small town America in a simpler time [ late 1950s ]. Jamie the widowed, elderly minister's daughter is a bit removed from her fellow high school students as she takes herself into quiet corners to read her beloved bible while they gossip and fool around. She is however pleasant with all she meets and works hard to help the less fortunate. Landon is a typical 17 year old boy. Not a bad lad , but not a saint either. Jamie engineers, in her own subtle way, for them to be partners in the school Christmas play and this is the start of a short, but intense mutual love. He grows to respect her and appreciate her innate goodness and she sees the decency in him. But all will soon end and how they deal with this as they help each other is the basis for the second half of the story culminating in "a walk to remember"My wife read this first and cried copious tears. She thought that it perhaps was too sensitively emotional for my taste. I gave it a go and could not put it down. Sure it is weepy and sad, but it is so well written that a defy anyone, even crusty old codgers like me, not to fall in love with Jamie and rejoice in the ending. There are many lessons to be learned from this 240 page fine read.

I really liked the storyline to this book and was hooked on every word. I was however disapointed in the ending and felt it was a bit of a let down.

This story was simply beautiful. the last three chapters is where it really hit home for me. I kept saying to myself, I'm not gonna cry. But I cried. It had a beautiful message about love, hope and faith. And of a young girl who kept cheerful and happy even when no one in the world wanted to be her friend, and young teenage boy whose life she changed forever.The prose was beautful, the build up and pay off amazing and I don't think I could fault it for anything. It was clear from the get go that the author really cared deeply about this work and wanted to share the aspiring message to us all. I truly loved this story that grew on me slowly but what I believe will have a lasting impact. Well done, is all I can say to him. Simply well done.

Jamie's charachter was absolutly stunning. I thought that her personality was captured brilliantly by Nicholas Sparks, a fantasitc Author who always has such fresh and imaginative ideas. She was Flawless in her love of people and life and it was hard not to connect with her character. Even as she faced death she still gave to people and put others before herself. Again, Written beautifully with perfect technique, exciting yet devastating, a very sobering storyline. as Always a wonderful read from Nicholas Sparks.

I finished this book in one session it was so moving and written by a wonderful author who is fast becoming my favourite writer.Nicholas Sparks writes with so much compassion and obviously researches his material meticulously so that the reader understands what it feels like to experience the situation the characters in the story experience.I recommend this book unreservedly.