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This is a new genre for me. And interestingly enough, the films made from his books finally woke me up to his genius.

Having said that, I would confess that the film made from this book was not, in my opinion, a very good one. I thought it was miscast terribly. I have had this book for some time and really resisted reading it because the movie was so bad.

But I was wrong. I don’t know how Mr.Sparks can put so much emotion into the written word. He is a national treasure.
I have read so many bad books written by bad authors, although in many instances the authors are doing the best they can. And although the books written are 2 & 3 stars they can’t compare to Mr. Sparks.

I won’t go into detail about what the story is about, just be ready to go on an emotional journey if you read this or any of Mr. Sparks other books. And do dig out underlying messages even if Mr. Sparks won’t admit to them. They are there which I’m sure is part of the emotional journey you’ll go on.

Read this or any of his books, you won’t be disappointed!


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The Last Song Nicholas Sparks 9780446547567 Books Reviews

All hail Nicholas Sparks, the reigning king of the beach read melodramas! In "The Last Song," he successfully reproduces a formula that works for him in countless other novels (The Notebook,Nights in Rodanthe,Dear John and Message in a Bottle) that is sure to please fans the have grown to love and expect a surefire romance offset by some rigorously intrusive tragedy.

"The Last Song" mainly sings to younger romantics who appreciate the muddled impulsiveness of the adolescent/burgeoning adult mind. In this one, Ronnie, seventeen going on eighteen and the land of adult free supervision, is forced by her mother to spend the summer in North Carolina accompanied by her ten year old brother with Steve, her piano-playing, once-upon-a-recent-time Julliard professor estranged father. Kicking and screaming, she pulls out all the stops, spewing enough anger and resentment to obliterate more than a few third world countries with just a quick bitter stamp of her feet, a contemptuous look and writhing comparison of the beach house and community where Steve resides to that of the Big Apple of Adventure and Shoplifting Charges where she, fingered and reprimanded, must live down.

Of course, Ronnie, as a composer/piano prodigy who once treated Carnegie Hall audiences to duets with her equally talented dad, demands that Steve commit his musical instrument and his music to an imprisoned alcove of silence in exchange for her promise to try to make the summer a happy one for her little brother. Remarkable, Steve agrees to this attempt at an armed compromise and literally encloses the piano within a dry-walled chamber.

As all students of the Nicholas Sparks School of Instant Maturation within 400 Pages know full well, the advent of the love interest, in this case the hunky volleyball player Will and the trials and tribulation associated with their new relationship--jealous girlfriends, disapproving parents, some social class imbalances and the normal dithering between two people insecure within their own skins let alone as a couple that works--does the trick. Our Ronnie sees that proverbial light and grows up within the book's last thirty pages while spectacularly calculating and perfecting the last song to her father's delight.

Add to this coming-of-age and the realization that true love requires sacrifice, the element that Sparks' stories depend upon most of all--tragedy in the form of terminal disease--and the resulting angst transforms into a two Kleenex affair that can be read within two days while acquiring a pretty substantial tan on your lawn chair by the shore.

Sparks does an adequate job of conveying youthful emotions from both the female and male perspectives. While all of this may initially provide page-turning entertainment, the inevitability of predictable outcomes may cause some to cheer yet offend others. The offensive overuse of tragedy as the ultimate deus ex machina will come as no surprise to fans who have come to expect this rather formulaic constant in all of Sparks' stories.

Bottom line? Nicholas Sparks writes another romantic coming of age tale that for some will scream, "I haven't got time for the pain ... again." "The Last Song" promises all that Sparks is famous for--young star-crossed love, angry adolescents, cute ten year old boys, broken homes and marriages, infidelity, secrets and tragedy in the form of terminal disease. For those who enjoy this soap opera fare in book format, two to three days of fun reading await. Recommended for those with no other expectations.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
"reneofc"
This is my first Nicholas Sparks book, though I have seen a few of the movies made from his work.

Overall, I liked the book. I thought he did a fine job of capturing the reactions of two kids to the breakup of their family, as well as the daughter's coming of age occurrences over the course of a summer. Being a Dad, I also liked the way he portrayed Steve, the Dad, who is struggling to remake himself as well as deal with his grave illness.

Ronnie, the seventeen year old daughter who is at the center of the story, arrives at her father's beachfront home under protest. She's almost eighteen, just a few months away from not having to be ordered to spend time with a parent she feels abandoned by and is angry at. This book is the story of Ronnie discovering Ronnie and confronting her reality. She is aided in this process of realization as she interacts with the youth in her Dad's town, confronts her abandoned gift of music she shares with her Dad, and grows to appreciate her Dad and the finality that his grave illness confronts her with.

Other characters such as the outcast local girl Blaze, her ne'er-do-well boyfriend Marcus, the town's chief hoodlum, and new boyfriend Will provide the personalities and situations that enable Ronnie to move beyond attitude and embrace her future as well as her past. The Marcus/Blaze/Will line was well-done and I thought (from the distant perch of a parent's perspective), portrayed some of the challenges faced by youth in sorting out love, peer pressure, fitting-in and rebelliousness in an interesting and believable manner.

This book was a quick read, with good characters, believable situations and as Nicholas Sparks apparently does well, heart-wrenching situations and occurrences that must be faced by the main characters as the story heads towards its bitter-sweet end.
This is a new genre for me. And interestingly enough, the films made from his books finally woke me up to his genius.

Having said that, I would confess that the film made from this book was not, in my opinion, a very good one. I thought it was miscast terribly. I have had this book for some time and really resisted reading it because the movie was so bad.

But I was wrong. I don’t know how Mr.Sparks can put so much emotion into the written word. He is a national treasure.
I have read so many bad books written by bad authors, although in many instances the authors are doing the best they can. And although the books written are 2 & 3 stars they can’t compare to Mr. Sparks.

I won’t go into detail about what the story is about, just be ready to go on an emotional journey if you read this or any of Mr. Sparks other books. And do dig out underlying messages even if Mr. Sparks won’t admit to them. They are there which I’m sure is part of the emotional journey you’ll go on.

Read this or any of his books, you won’t be disappointed!