Dear John

Title: Dear John

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Published: 2006

Genre: Fiction

Rating: 3 out of 5

For once, the movie was better than the book! Though chick lit, the movie narration was good and it was very fast-paced. 

This book about an angry rebel named John Tyree, who doesn't get along with his father, dropped out of school and is enlisted in the army. He is on a vacation and meets Savannah Curtis. Both of them fall in love with each other and John promises to attend her college graduation after a year when he finishes his tour. They promise to write to each other so that they feel they are together every day.

But the incident on 9/11 makes John feel that he needs to re-enlist. John returns home to meet Savannah now married and still is his true love, which is the hardest decision of his life to meet her!

The part I really did not understand was when John meets Savannah after his dad's death, she talks to him and asks him if he can help her clean the dens! Seriously....???

Favorite lines from the book :

• I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
• Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.
• Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

The Lucky One

Title: The Lucky One

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Published: 2008

Genre: Fiction

Rating: 3 out of 5

This book was a chick-lit and an easy read (easy-listen rather). This was my second book by Nicholas Sparks. A very good beach read.

This book is about a soldier Logan serving in Iraq, who finds a picture of a woman. No one claims the picture and he keeps the picture and like a lucky charm, he believes that that picture saves him through tough times, or at least all the other soldiers say so. After retiring from the Armed Forces, he is determined to find the lady in the picture. He walks all the way to Hampton, NC. Logan finds that the name of the woman in the picture is Elizabeth. He gets a job at a Dog Training Center which is run by Elizabeth's grandmother. Elizabeth is a divorcee and her ex-husband Keith is a law enforcement officer. She also has a son Ben.

Long story short, Logan becomes their best friend with Ben and falls in love with Elizabeth. It iss all romance for a while and Keith finds that Elizabeth is dating Logan and tries to stop. The end was really curious, but it was definitely predictable. As with any other chick-lit by Sparks, I would read more books by him. This was an audiobook and kept me thinking during the daily commute.

Favorite lines from the book :

• He was the toast to her butter.
• Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.
• There is nothing like love. You should try it.
• Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
• And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.