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Publisher:
Time Warner Audio |
Release
Date: May 2004 |
ISBN:
1-58621-615-5 |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: Audio CE |
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Genre:
Fiction/Movie Tie-In (Romance) |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Carisa Weeaks |
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The
Notebook
By
Nicholas Sparks
Read by Barry Bostwick
After
moving away from home to start fresh and make something of himself,
thirty-one-year-old Noah Calhoun comes back to the small coastal
town in North Carolina where the house of his dreams sits desolate
and untouched, with the means and motivation to transform it into
something amazing. After a year, it’s almost done, but the
ghost that drives him to work from the wee hours of the morning
until late at night still will not let him rest. The ghost isn’t
what one would say is the definition of a “real” ghost.
The figure that haunts his every thought is the girl who stole his
heart more than twelve years earlier.
At
twenty-nine, Allie Nelson is positioned on the pedestal that any
society-loving southern belle would love to be on: she’s been
raised in a high-society family and is now engaged to a successful
young lawyer. Her future is as bright as any of the stars in the
sky...to her parents, anyway. To her, there’s something missing
– something left undone in her past. She couldn’t understand
why she wasn’t as happy as she should be...until she sees
the picture of the boy she was once in love with on the front page
of the newspaper...for restoring one of the oldest plantation houses
in the area. Will going back to see him one last time allow her
the chance to move on?
This is a
romantic tale of a summer fling that turns into a love that lasts
a lifetime. Being both a Nicholas Sparks fan and a fan of the actors
cast to play both the young and old Noah Calhoun in the movie adaptation
of this book, this story wasn’t hard for me to get into. The
flow of the writing is so natural it makes the listener think they’re
actually listening to someone in the room tell the story. The entire
way through the six CDs, I found myself picturing the characters,
scenery, and storyline so well that it could’ve almost been
a movie in my mind. That’s when I know I’ve found a
good audio book. This is my second favorite now, next to Spark’s
“The Guardian.”
Barry
Bostwick, best known by many as the strange, sometimes clueless
mayor on “Spin City,” is the narrator for this audio.
He does an excellent job of stretching his acting skills into the
vocal roles of each of the characters. His mellow voice melds with
the smooth words, making any listener (especially this listener)
become immediately entranced and pulled into the story.
It’s
a heart-quaking, tear-flowing read that will make you laugh, cry,
and scream all at once when you realize you just finished the last
CD.
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