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Message in a Bottle |  | Author: Nicholas Sparks Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Category: eBooks
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Rating: 915 reviews Sales Rank: 10840
Format: Kindle Book Media: Kindle Edition Pages: 384 Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 ASIN: B000FA5QD6
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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Amazon.com 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 with "...am alone on the pier and I do not care what others think as I bow my head and cry and cry and cry. Garret." Garret may eat quiche, but no bother--before you can say "Look! I found two more letters!" Theresa is hot on his trail and determined to find this mysterious yet sensitive message-in-a-bottle man. She finds him at a sleepy North Carolina port, working on his beloved sailboat, The Happenstance. From there, a romance buds and blossoms into a colorful bouquet of emotional baggage. Theresa has problems with her past--or, more accurately, her past is a problem. She is so scarred from her "I'm a super churchgoing guy now that I've run out on my wife" ex-husband that she hasn't tried to date since her divorce some three or four years before. And who is Catherine? And what's Garret's bag, anyway? When Theresa finds out, she plunges to the depths of her soul and uncorks a whopper of a secret about herself, bringing Garret to terms with who he really is. Message in a Bottle has the earmarks of sentimental tongue-wagging at its finest and should please romantics and cynics alike--it's sure to bring romantics to their knees, while cynics will be slapping theirs in laughter. --Rebekah Warren
Product Description Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when...
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Grab the Kleenex... September 5, 2010 Susan (new jersey) While not quite on par with The Notebook, Sparks delights us with an intricately wound love story that will move you to tears throughout.
disappointed September 2, 2010 Dan M (Oklahoma, U.S.A.) I have enjoyed Mr. Sparks books until the end of this one.Great story up to the conclusion. This is only the second book I have ever thrown away in hopes that I can save someone else the disappointment this story brings.
Message in a Bottle..... August 12, 2010 Joel Coodey (Bakersfield, CA) Wonderful Novel. It's going to be a favorite of mine for a long time to come.
Enjoy!
If you find this bottle, throw it back in the ocean!!! August 3, 2010 molli faust This is the story: Divorcee Theresa, 36, writes a column about childrearing and dotes on her 12 year old son. One day she is jogging and ruminating vainly over her decent but aging appearance when up from the shore washes a bottle full of the most sentimental tripe imaginable. The message is from an amorous Garret to a dear lost Katherine. It is "so beautiful" that Theresa and her friend cry and cry. Theresa, so touched that a man could love a woman with such unabashed sentimentallity and wanting very much to believe in a monogamous universe full of lovestruck men, covets the letter writer for her own and starts to look for him. Later,they fall in love and then it doesn't work out so they send one final message in the bottle to each other, etc. But their parting is a thank you to each other, i.e. "cool breeze on my cheek will always be your spirit.."
Now I am normally a mild mannered librarian, but I found myself fervently hoping that the main character would die and this would turn into a murder mystery. I kept thinking, "is he serious?" I don't think he is, for this is one hilariously maudlin book.
Great book, happy and sad story... June 6, 2010 Joshua Jurado (Weslaco, TX USA) This is great love story to read, and I recommend this book to every person out there who enjoys reading romance stories. I really wish that Garret didn't die at the end of the story and it shocked me that it happened, but that's what made the entire story twist at the end - Nicholas Sparks always finds a way to twist the story. This was the first Sparks' book I had ever read, The Notebook was my second that I finished a couple of days ago, which is another book I highly recommend.
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