The Notebook

I have just completed yet another book and the following is my critique on the book and how it compares to the film.
The Notebook was wonderfully writen however, I didn't get much out of it, I think because I have already seen the movie a dozen times. The book is about a love story but it only covers about a day in 213 pages.
The movie consists of the storyteller starting at the beginning and finishing at the end which is very different from the novel. The novel starts near the end and has flashbacks that help to tell the story and show how the love story actually started. It wasn't the best book I've ever read (its hard to compete with HP) but I wanted to read it just to see how the story had been writen. I personally like the movie The Notebook a lot better than the book.
Compared to the other novel that I read (also by Nicholas Sparks) I thought the book was way better. I read Dear John before The Notebook and I thought it was a very good book. It definitly showed the characters falling in love instead of like the movie where it all seems to happen over night. Although it only takes a week for them to fall in love in the book I still find that it makes more sense. The book showed them talking more and actually getting to know each other while the movie seemed to show them in love after only talking one or two times.
I really like the way that John and his fathers relationship went in the book compared to the movie. He never seemed to really understand his dad in the movie but in the book he actually made an effort to hang out with him even if all that meant was sitting together and reading. Their relationship grew so much in the novel and that same feeling was absent from the movie. I wish that part could have been in there, but then again I also with that the trip to St. Mungo`s was in the fifth Harry Potter movie. It always seems to be easy to show the growth of a relationship in a book, but when that same growth is attempted to be incorporated in a movie it doesn`t seem to work out.
This is one of the many reasons that I enjoy the book to the movie in most cases. However, I again turn to The Notebook and understand that sometimes the movie can be better than the book, sometimes.

"Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."
- Hazel Rochman

 this is t-bear signing off