Julie Barenson’s young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died – a puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching...
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Mar 22, 2011
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Mar 23, 2011
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I know what your thinking... How can Reed read a nicholas sparks book... very simple... I don't think you can bad mouth something until you have tried it. so I read a sparks novel. I have to admit it was entertaining. It was also very cheesy and the very end was about the biggest pile of tripe i have ever layed eyes on.
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May 19, 2008
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Esta review (já sei) vai ser motivo de risota... (aviso já é que é longa só para eu esclarecer que não o li totalmente de livre vontade!!!!)
Primeiro porque é um autor que eu não gosto e segundo porque as minhas amigas, sabendo que eu o li, não vão deixar de me gozar...
Há muito tempo eu li o 1º livro deste senhor (Message in a Bottle) e, tendo gostado, 'caí na asneira' de comentar esse facto com uma cunhada. O que aconteceu foi que ela, a partir daí, resolveu começar a oferecer-mos TO More...
Primeiro porque é um autor que eu não gosto e segundo porque as minhas amigas, sabendo que eu o li, não vão deixar de me gozar...
Há muito tempo eu li o 1º livro deste senhor (Message in a Bottle) e, tendo gostado, 'caí na asneira' de comentar esse facto com uma cunhada. O que aconteceu foi que ela, a partir daí, resolveu começar a oferecer-mos TO More...
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Aug 01, 2011
Amanda
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One of my favorite Nicholas Sparks' books. The main character falls in love with her long time friend after losing her husband at a very young age. I love the romance concept of the book and the slow realization of Julie as she comes to love Mike. It is also a nice concept of her lost husband watching over her and letting go when he sees she is finally at peace without him. Romance stories are more fascinating to me when the main characters are already friends who fall in love.
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Dec 03, 2008
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Jan 14, 2011
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Oct 20, 2008
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September10, 2008
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The Gaurdian by Nicholas Sparks, is a touching love story of death and a leap a faith. Julie Barenson's husbands death left her with to unexpected gifts, a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would be watching over her always. After, four years of mourning Julie is now finally emotionally ready to begin the journey of finding Mr. Right again. While working one day in the small hair salon of her mother-like friend Mabl More...
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The Gaurdian by Nicholas Sparks, is a touching love story of death and a leap a faith. Julie Barenson's husbands death left her with to unexpected gifts, a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would be watching over her always. After, four years of mourning Julie is now finally emotionally ready to begin the journey of finding Mr. Right again. While working one day in the small hair salon of her mother-like friend Mabl More...
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Jul 05, 2010
Anna
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The guardian is another great book by Nicholas Sparks. Though I must say he has done better work I still enjoyed reading this one. Like the majority of his books the sadness of death is expressed through his writing. I must say though, at the beginning of the book the story was pretty slow and didn't completely have my attention unlike say The Last Song or Dear John. But by the middle of the book it had me completely captivated! I just couldn't put it down. The whole mysterious Richard story and
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Dec 22, 2008
Jessica
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I wish that I could give this book 3 stars. I really wish that I could. I mean there are a lot of parts of the book that I really liked. But in general the story was a little familiar...I read a book earlier this year that was almost exactly the same plot line but of course was not as well put together as a Nicholas Sparks' book! And up until the last chapter and epilogue, I was going to give it 3 stars. But that last bit ruined it for me. Not to spoil anything for any readers, but seriously, th
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Nov 17, 2011
Karen & Gerard
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The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks is a combination of a love story and a thriller with a dog thrown in. The main character is Julie, a young widow who works at a salon and finally decides to date four years after her husband died. Her husband, Jim, left her a letter and arranged for her to get a Great Dane puppy in the event of his death which I thought was a pretty neat idea. The dog was his way of watching out for her. After the Prologue, this book poked along for me until about half way thr
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Jan 25, 2009
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Dec 31, 2008
Antof9
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Notes from BookCrossing: Just finished this one. I was going to clean in my office a bit and then finish it up tonight, but with the stalker in it, I decided to read it while it was light out, as my husband is out of town :)
I wasn't sure what to expect, as I saw the movie "Message in a Bottle" (hated it), the previews for "The Notebook" (but haven't read the book or seen the movie yet), saw "A Walk to Remember" (liked it, but it was slow and almost too More...
I wasn't sure what to expect, as I saw the movie "Message in a Bottle" (hated it), the previews for "The Notebook" (but haven't read the book or seen the movie yet), saw "A Walk to Remember" (liked it, but it was slow and almost too More...
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Jan 26, 2012
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dear reader,
I am not a romantic person, thus not a romance reader. But just to try something new:
Overall, this book was funny, entertaining, heart-throbbing, suspenseful, and so real. It will make your heart hammer against your ribcage, cry ponds of tears, and leap for joy. Julie loses her beloved husband Jim, and four months later she receives a puppy (whom she names Singer, for personal reasons) and a note. The note contained a promise from Jim to always watch over her. More...
I am not a romantic person, thus not a romance reader. But just to try something new:
Overall, this book was funny, entertaining, heart-throbbing, suspenseful, and so real. It will make your heart hammer against your ribcage, cry ponds of tears, and leap for joy. Julie loses her beloved husband Jim, and four months later she receives a puppy (whom she names Singer, for personal reasons) and a note. The note contained a promise from Jim to always watch over her. More...
Jan 26, 2012
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks takes place in a small southern town Swansboro, North Carolina. This story begins when Julie Barenson is forced to face her first Christmas Eve alone. Usually she would spend it with her husband Jim but he had just recently passed of a brain tumor. Although Julie does not have to live completely alone because her husband arranged for her to have a puppy when he died. Singer, her golden retriever, is really the kind of friend she needed to help her get through her
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Jan 13, 2012
Clarissa
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There are three women in this novel with J names. Jessica, Julie and Jennifer. Two of them have the same initials. These two look alike. One, we don't really meet, we just hear about. But it didn't really matter because I wasn't able to connect with any of the characters. This was a romance and a suspense novel. Nicholas Sparks said he wanted to write a suspense with a true love story, one that dominated the book instead of having the suspense take over. Can I tell you he failed? I would never h
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Jan 07, 2012
Jenna
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The Guardian, by Nicholas Sparks, follows the life of Julie Barenson, a young widow. After four years of quiet and compassionate marriage, her husband dies a premature death following the discovery of a brain tumor. Not long after her husband Jim has passed, she recieves a baby Great Dane, and a note from her deceased husband saying that he would forever be grateful and watch over her. After four years of living on her own (with Singer, the now-grown and huge Great Dane)Julie trys out the dati
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Jan 04, 2012
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"THE GUARDIAN" By: Nicholas Sparks
The main issue in "The Guardian" is that Julie has a stalker. It's a man who feels that Julie should be his, when she has stolen Mike's heart.
The setting is very important for the book. It shows where it is taken place. If it were any other place, it would be hard to understand.
The protagonist is Julie, whose husband had passed away. She is a brunette, and beautiful, and doesn't try to More...
The main issue in "The Guardian" is that Julie has a stalker. It's a man who feels that Julie should be his, when she has stolen Mike's heart.
The setting is very important for the book. It shows where it is taken place. If it were any other place, it would be hard to understand.
The protagonist is Julie, whose husband had passed away. She is a brunette, and beautiful, and doesn't try to More...
Jan 01, 2012
Shannon
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What's super-funny about this is that I hate Nicholas Sparks anyway, and my coworker gave me this book for some light reading. So I read it, inasmuch as you can read something this poorly written (I've seriously seen better first drafts in writing workshops) -- it didn't take long, so I can't even be annoyed by losing hours of my life to it or anything. In addition to being poorly written, it's garbage. Just complete, utter, trite, cliched garbage.
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Nov 08, 2011
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Nov 05, 2011
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Oct 27, 2011
Casey
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The Guardian is an incredible book, and one that I would recommend to any Nicholas Sparks fan. It is one of his best, containing all the suspense and thrill of his books A Bend in the Road and Safe Haven, while still containing sweet, emotional moments like in The Lucky One and Dear John. It defiantly still is one of Spark's classic romance novels, but this particular novel will also appeal to those who enjoy reading mystery and criminal justice. In a way, it is unlike any of his other books, an
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Sep 01, 2011
Katieeoh
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This book is actually about a widow named Julie who is now living with her dog Singer, who’s a Great Dane and was a gift from her husband, Jim, when he passed away. With her best friend, Mike, who helped her a lot ever since the death of her husband made her feel that its time for her to love again, and she has that feeling its going to be Mike. Then the story goes by, and she met a guy named Richard who she thought is perfect because of his features; handsome, tall, a great engineer and she als
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Jun 05, 2011
Michelle
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The Guardian isn't as romantic as Nicholas Sparks' other novels but it does create a very adventurous story. The way Sparks describes these events are so vivid; I feel like the characters he's describing. The main character's husband died and he left her a dog and a note to go with it before he passed away. She met this man that was very charming, however, she thought he was doing too much. She thought he'd take it smoothly because after all, it was dating; not a serious relationship. On the oth
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May 25, 2011
The book The Guardian was a very heart trenching novel that kept me on my toes. Nicholas Sparks did an amazing job with keeping me guessing and keeping the book suspenseful. What kept me reading this book was the love and romance that carried on, not only with Julie and her men, but also with Julie and Singer. While I was reading this book I experienced a lot of different feelings but the two that were really strong were suspense and love. Love because of the way Sparks talked about Julie, Mike,
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May 19, 2011
Katlyn
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Nicholas Sparks intentions for writing The Guardian was to entertain readers mainly, and to show how blind a person could make you seem by the secrets they have hidden in their past or present. Also, that some people can be a lot more dangerous than they appear. My favorite character in this book was Mike, because I can relate to how committed he is to one person. He’s a strong willed, nice, loving type of guy that was eventually meant to be with the women he was in love w More...
Nicholas Sparks intentions for writing The Guardian was to entertain readers mainly, and to show how blind a person could make you seem by the secrets they have hidden in their past or present. Also, that some people can be a lot more dangerous than they appear. My favorite character in this book was Mike, because I can relate to how committed he is to one person. He’s a strong willed, nice, loving type of guy that was eventually meant to be with the women he was in love w More...
Feb 23, 2011
Morgan
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This book, The Guardian written by Nicholas Sparks, is a great romantic comedy. There are moments where my heart would melt over the romantic things, and there were times I was angry at certain characters. The book kept me reading on until I was finished, and it left me satisfied but yet, still wanting more. The entire book I was interested and wanting to read on to find out what would happen. Nicholas Sparks’ style of writing is not easy but not hard to understand. He writes about true love, b
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Feb 21, 2011
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Feb 21, 2011
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Oct 05, 2010
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September 29, 2010
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English 3 The Gaurdian
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks is a novel filled with drama and suprises at every bend of each chapter. I personally chose to read this book because I am a fan of Nicholas Sparks, and I have heard positive comments about this book. Overall the genre of this story is generally drama, although it does have moments of suspense throughout the end.
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September 29, 2010
Period 1*
English 3 The Gaurdian
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks is a novel filled with drama and suprises at every bend of each chapter. I personally chose to read this book because I am a fan of Nicholas Sparks, and I have heard positive comments about this book. Overall the genre of this story is generally drama, although it does have moments of suspense throughout the end.
Life dramatically changes fo More...
Jun 27, 2010
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