Nicholas Sparks is famed as the most popular romance writer of today, however he is supremely undeserving of this fame as he has only ever written one book. Up to this day, he has followed the same structure of his first book in order to build his wealth and further inflate his name.
Sparks’ debut novel, The Notebook, captured readers with a heartbreaking and emotional force that was thought to include unparagoned intuitions on romance. For years since the book was released in 1996, infatuated readers could not forget the story between the heiress, Allie Nelson and the typical Noah Calhoun. Noah and Allie met when they were teenagers and their friendship quickly swirled into passionate love for one another. However, their love was destined to shatter due to the repeated rejection and disapproval of Allie’s parents on Noah’s social status. Eventually, Noah and Allie unwillingly broke up. Unable to abate his growing yearn for Allie, Noah goes off to fight in World War II and tries to send a total of 365 letters that, which is later discovered, do not reach Allie. After the war, Noah and Allie meet up and Allie reveals a startling truth: she is engaged to another man. Once Allie speaks to Noah and reads the letters he sent her, she chooses to marry Noah, overlooking her parent’s opinion on who to marry. When Sparks fast forwards to the future, readers discover that Allie has Alzheimer's and, at times, can not remember Noah. During these phases Noah reads from a notebook that contains their love story. On one fortuitous day, Allie remembers Noah. That night the elated couple go to sleep and are found dead the next morning in each other's embrace.
Three years and two books later, Sparks released yet another romance novel that could...
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...n how much money the book made in total, the million dollars was enough incentive for Sparks’ to release one book every year. Granted, seeing that one of America’s beloved authors is money-minded seems like a paradox, his spending habits speak for itself on how much money he has. For example, in 2008, Sparks donated approximately 10 million dollars to start a college prep private school. Also in 2008, Sparks donated $900,000 for a track course to New Bern High School. Cleary, Sparks has a great amount of money to spend because of the revenue from his best selling books.
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The diverse alternation of point of views also provides the story an effective way to reach out to readers and be felt. The characterisation is effectively done and applied as Sam, Grace, and the other supporting characters play individual, crucial roles in the course of the story. All the elements of a typical young adult novel, consisting of a gap-filled relationship between children and parents, emotion-driven teenagers, and a unique conflict that makes the book distinct from fellow novels, combined with the dangerous consequences of the challenges the couple encounter, make the book different from all other of the same genre. The plot unfolds slowly giving readers enough time to adjust and anticipate the heavy conflict when it arises. It has gotten us so hooked but the only thing we could possibly dislike about it was the slow pace of plot. The anticipation was too much to handle and we were practically buzzing and bouncing to know how the story turns out as we read. It builds the anticipation, excitement, thrill, sadness, grief, loss, and longing in such an effective way to entice and hook readers further into the world of Sam and
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