Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Quote of the Day

'Smile... it's the second best thing to do with your lips.' 

- Anonymous

Sorry

Sorry to my few readers because I haven't been really keeping up with my reading.  I just finished The Hobbit and Dear John I will have a review for The Hobbit up probably this weekend.  I'm almost done with What is the What (Which is a pretty good book BTW) so that one will probably come up this weekend.


Thanks for being patient

Dear John

I'm not much of a romance reader but I did want to read this book because Channing Tatum was in the movie.  And I have a rule book first then movie.  The book was okay I guess I was expecting something a little more like The Notebook or The Rescue, something a little more romantic and fictional.



A quick summary:  John falls in love one summer with a girl named Savannah.  John had been a ruff 'em cruff 'em kind of a guy who was angry and had a hard time connecting to people.  His father was probably lightly autistic and his mother left when he was really little so his home environment wasn't the best.  Over the summer Savannah changes John into a gentleman and they fall deeply in love.  John was in the Army Special Forces and has to leave at the end of summer.  While John is gone, Savannah and him write letter to each other, writing about their lives what they're up to and how much they miss each other.  John comes home safe and sound but 9/11 hits and he re-enlists.  Savannah is okay with this but she wishes he would come home again.  For two years they continue to write letters to each other.  6 months before John was to return home for good, Savannah writes him a "Dear John Letter" saying she has become engaged to someone else.  Shortly after that, John comes home on emergency leave because his father has become very sick. John sees his father off as he dies and then John makes a visit to Savannah.  He then finds her married to a family friend Tim, who John met during his first summer with Savannah.  Tim has cancer, he and Savannah are waiting for a new drug that with supposedly cure him.  John, being a gentleman, sells his father's coin collection and anonymously donates the rest of the needed funds.  As was hoped Tim gets better


Honestly I kind of got wrapped up in the story but I was disappointed with Savannah.  My first response when he read the last letter was, 'What the HELL!!!  She could wait a fricking few months!!!' My heart felt so badly for John because I bet he missed her even more than he knew and she realized. Nicholas Sparks writes pretty well it seems that his writing is more a scratch the surface purge little emotion.  I don't think that he wrote this book because he had a burning passion to, more on the effect of 'let's write another book so people will read it.'