Love lasts long.. Review on Notebook, The - Nicholas Sparks

With every great love coms a great story..

As much as I would love to claim this lovely line to be originally mine, I grudgingly confess,this is the tagline from the movie of the same name, based on the book.

The Notebooktells us the story of two people who meet during a summer vacation when they are teenagers,fall deeply in love,only to be seperated after a month.

This book traces the life of Noah CalhounHailing from a middle-class background,he has returned to his home town after 15 years with gruesome memories of war and a bulky inheritance.After having fought in the World War 2,and survived,he devotes his time to remodel an old house,which has been his dream since adolescence.He has everything,a nice house,nice lifestyle,but he's still plague by the memory of the girl he met 15 years ago in a month of summer....a girl who would become his first love..a girl whom he has never met in 15 years,does not know about her wherabouts..but does know that he'll never love anyone as he loved her..

The notebook describes the story of Allie Nelson-Daughter of well-to-do parents,she is 29 years of age,all set to marry a young established but busy lawyer,Lon.She loves him,or convinces herself that she does,but always has that nagging thought that her heart is not with Lon,but with another man,miles away,whom she had met 15 years before,but who still invades her thoughts thus preventing her whole-hearted commitment to any relationship..

The book starts with an old man in a nursing home,reading from a withered notebook to an old woman.He slowly relates the story of his life,his youth and his love..

Noah and Allie meet when they are teenagers,17 and 15 respectively.In a short time,love blossoms..but seperation is inevitable,Allie from a wealthy background has to go back to her former lifestyle.Wheras Noah his own future waiting for him.Allie's parents disapprove of this young boy from a inferior background,and their innocent love is dismissed as a temporary,meaningless teenage crush.In the 15 years that follow,they do not keep in touch,and soon their lives take different routes,on the assumption that what they had those years ago,would remain just a memory,a thing of past..never to come back again...

But circumstances change,Allie,who has been engaged finds herself visiting the very same town that she had been to as a teenager to visit Noah,one never knows why..maybe so that she wants to give their love a second chance,or maybe she feels that if she is going to get married soon,she might as well settle her scores with her past to commit to her future...Does she find herself falling in love once again,or does she find that this man whom she loved 15 years ago,is no more than a stranger to her..That's for u to find out..

All the books written by Nicholas Sparks have very very common stories,its the way he writes them that makes them so nice to read.All his thoughts about love are so simple and innocent,they seem to have a ring of truth in them..at the end we start to feel that maybe that's how love is..pure,with a pleasant freshness..

This is one one my favourite lines from the book,its said by Noah..I personally feel that anyone who is in love or believes in love will identify greatly with this quote...a simple definition of love ..

There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me that has always been enough..