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I bought this book because it was written by Nicholas Sparks. I actually haven't read his books in many years. I don't know if I was different then, or this book is unlike the others, but it was a little slow reading. Not sure what it was about it, but I just didn't wake up in the morning wondering what would happen next. That's not to say I won't go ahead and read the next one- just to see. Maybe it's just all in my mind. The story was good, the characters interesting, but not deep enough. I want to feel as if I know the people I'm reading about


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True Believer Nicholas Sparks Books Reviews

It started off to slow. I tried to keep reading it though. I didn’t find it as interesting as some of his other books. Yes I do believe that love can be found on some occasions in a short time. This interaction with the two main characters i found really not believable. Some books I read more than once but can honestly say this isn’t one of them.
This book had more Not to likes, than Likes The romance seemed endless with repetitive "I love you", spoken mostly by Lexie. Her character was selfish and often childish. The pregnancy dragged on too long as did Jeremy's inability to write. The plot had loose ends and the ending was not to my liking. Overall it was disappointing.
A wonderful tale and great character development. I liked the clash of the busy city man and the southern belle. Writing was solid and the pace riveting. The only downside is the chapters were long and the editing needed a bit of improvement to catch the shifts between characters and also time.
Reading this book leisurely, at home in my easy chair ...

(I received my copy of the hardback 12/27/05 in my rural mail box from 's entertainingly addictive "click-n-shop" free-ship carnival of convenience.)

... gave me a different impression than reading it in spits and spurts, loitering against bookshelves at City-Market and Wal Mart during a series of grocery shopping sprees.

What stood out in the leisurely read at home was the vivid reality in the settings, the sports bar TV scene in NYC, Lexi's library made out of a two-story old house, the local café, homes of characters, and small town base, including, of course, the old, seedy cemetery. In the stand up read I was focused on the plot rhythm, which seemed much faster than in the lamplit-living-room, luxury read.

Either way, TRUE BELIEVER feels even more special than my early intimations of it led me to believe.

Okay. So, what's so special about this novel?

It breathes.

Strutting in spontaneous steps over a paper page stage, it lives.

As the last page lifted from fingertips, the settings in the novel did not begin fading into the archives of memory. Somehow they remained lit, like the glow of morning twilight as the sun edges slowly above the Eastern land-line, or like a never-ending sunset spreading golden mists over the edges of scenes, like a dollhouse or a small town diorama highlighted for future use.

Does TRUE BELIEVER descend the reader to the absolute bottom of an emotional well, and keep him there, deep enough and long enough that a catharsis blossoms peacefully from an artistically sensual depression? It doesn't wander through exactly that type of soulful solitude of deep dark spaces of the healing heart that A BEND IN THE ROAD does. But TRUE BELIEVER has its own special magic. I believe it.

It appears, based on reading many and varied reviews of TRUE BELIEVER (before and after reading the book), and after reading A BEND IN THE ROAD (see my review), that Nicholas Sparks's novels (other than TB) give an amazingly effective type of emotional therapy which descends deeper and cleaner than most types of psychological analysis can hope to accomplish. I see why a reader could come to compulsively anticipate that catharsis, and be disgruntled when it has been replaced by another type of reading pleasure, which, to me, is equal. But, of course, if accounts are to be measured, I'm 58 hellacious-years-old, so maybe that explains it.

What is that equal pleasure?

It's hard to describe, even for a girl with be-ribbon-ed pigtails hiding inside the broken down body of a wise old crone wearing a black-cone-hat, bent at the tip. But, it seems as if Lexi and Jeremy are older souls than Sarah and Miles. It seems that the relationships in TB have, almost imperceptibly, matured and mellowed compared to earlier Sparks novels. The character connections in earlier novels seem younger and fresher, more emotionally volatile (to me that's not "for better or for worse"; it's just different).

I believe that if a reader isn't craving something he has been led to believe (and hope) a book will give him, maybe he won't be disappointed to receive a different, equally satisfying gift. Gifts are difficult, though. Even if a person's expecting a certain thing, and is given something he didn't expect, even if it's better or as good, it might take a while to see that the change is what he had come to need and didn't know it yet.

(See my reviews of a few culinary cozy series where I sheepishly admit to only gradually becoming able to enjoy mysteries in which characters not only do not "sink teeth into the warm, steamy sponge of a freshly-baked slice-of-bread" they don't EVEN mention "taking a bite of bread" while discussing clues. Or, see my Miss Marple reviews on AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL and MURDER AT THE VICARAGE in which I begin growing into an awareness of the subtly sensual appeals of Agatha's mysteries, even withOUT my mouth being surged into watering or my stomach being triggered into a series of growls.)

As one of his fan bases, Sparks seems to have established an appeal to sensitive yet feisty young women (probably mature ones, too, along with various types of testosterone bodies-of-water) who crave and seek what Miles Ryan describes as "sad and romantic."

Having recently finished reading (and reviewing) Sidney Sheldon's memoirs, I see an uncanny contrast between the appealingly youthful Nicholas Sparks's books, and Sheldon's intensely mature novels, written later in his life. I wonder what type of stories Sparks's would have offered had he been forced to wait until he was in his 50's to begin writing and publishing them. I wondered what type of novels Sheldon would have come out with if he had been allowed to write and publish his first novel shortly after his Hamlet choice against suicide at 17 years old.

Soul paths are indeed fascinating, as Spock would say. Look at the convoluted road he traveled to get to a bare light bulb highlighting a Holy Book's invisible paragraph saying that the emotional richness in the intimacy of mature friendship is the brass ring which enhances rather than desecrates the power and clarity of Logic.

"Live Long & Prosper,"

Linda G. Shelnutt

CRASHHHHH!!! Oh man. I KNEW a person who can't chew gum and walk at the same time shouldn't try that Vulcan hand-sign thingy. Sigh. I gotta quit being a HAM. But... whenever I try to slough off that pigskin cloak, I become a TURKEY. Where's the BEEF!! Is that it, stampeding across the prairie on steroid-strengthened limbs?

McD's here I come. Need a Quarter Pounder hit. Then I'll do Burger King, Wendy's, Arvey's, Carl Jr's, etc.
I absolutely love each and every one of Nicholas Sparks' books, "At First Sight" was just added to my list of favorites.

I laughed, cried, and experienced just about every emotion possible while I read this book; as you normally would while reading a book by this Author.

A definite must read!!
The first book I read by Nicholas Sparks frustrated me and made me unhappy. So unhappy that for years I refused to read another. A friend told me I had to read the "Believer" book so I did, and actually REALLY, really liked it. So I picked up the sequel. Once again I experienced complete frustration due to the expected and somewhat predicted ending. Well, that's the last book I will read by Mr. Sparks. It is almost a given that there is going to be a tragedy. I know life is rough, heck, at my age, I've seen a lot of the "worst of times". I read to escape, to find different views on life, etc. It just seems this author is stuck in the "Fall in love, be really happy, lover tragically dies - and we have all kinds of subtle messages too" mode.

I must grudgingly admit that I really do enjoy this author's style and character development. Though not exceptionally deep the characters are believable and interesting. However, the first book I read, Nights In Rodanthe, infuriated me because the author felt he had to step in and give brief little glimpses into the future - I hate that. So when the predicted future arrived, I decided not to waste my time with by this author. Now, after reading "At First Sight", I know I will avoid a future publications by Mr. Sparks. I'll find more upbeat and less predictable novels by upbeat authors, like maybe Dean Koontz.
As us usual this novel was excellent reading right from the very beginning. I have now read so many of Nicholas Sparks stories, and I find that it's amazing that this author's ability to grab my interest and continue to hold it right to the last word is what keeps me coming back for more and more of his writings.
I bought this book because it was written by Nicholas Sparks. I actually haven't read his books in many years. I don't know if I was different then, or this book is unlike the others, but it was a little slow reading. Not sure what it was about it, but I just didn't wake up in the morning wondering what would happen next. That's not to say I won't go ahead and read the next one- just to see. Maybe it's just all in my mind. The story was good, the characters interesting, but not deep enough. I want to feel as if I know the people I'm reading about