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  <title><![CDATA[The Lucky One]]></title>
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  <default-description>In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">9</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2008</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Lucky One</original-title>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 16:10:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A typical NS book, which seems like a gender-reversal of &quot;Message in a Bottle&quot;.  It was an easy escape read, and the characters are all well developed.  I actually hated reading the chapters on Clayton!  What a creep!  I love Zeus, who had a great handle on character reading!<br/><br/>Al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38371790">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't one of my absolute favorites--just okay.  I have read several Nicholas Sparks novels and I put this one in the category of &quot;True Believer&quot; and its sequel, &quot;At First Sight&quot;.<br/><br/>By now the author pretty much has a formula which he follows in most of his books:  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70299543">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 04 09:27:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks, captivating. Nicholas Sparks is a #1 New York Times best-selling author with over fifty million copies of his books in print worldwide and translated into over forty languages. Other titles include: The Rescue, A Bend in the Road, The Guardian, The Wedding,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31996729">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 19:30:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 19:37:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The famous Nicholas Sparks creates yet another amazing tale of lovers.<br/>Driven by luck and determination, Logan Thibult is in a search for a woman in a photograph that he found serving war in iraq. The photograph saved his life numerous times and with little persuasion by his friend Victor, he s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41243447">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Feb 04 19:52:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[At least this one has a happy ending... I am noticing a pattern in Sparks' books though which is kinda disappointing because I have enjoyed the few that I've read, but it seems like they always contain the same core elements.<br/><br/>One thing that annoyed me in this book (which, I realize, has n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45220406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40571052">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Dec 20 22:07:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so this book followed my reading of The Story of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2731276.The_Story_of_Edgar_Sawtelle_A_Novel" title="The Story of Edgar Sawtelle  A Novel by David Wroblewski">Edgar Sawtelle</a>.  After that great work of literature, anything would pale, probably.  Maybe I'm not being fair, but I really just didn't care for Sparks' latest.  I've only read a few of his books, but already I'm seeing a pattern and I found my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40571052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38479088">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Started off a little slow, maybe because he spent so much time introducing the characters. It just got a little old and before I knew it I was 1/2 way through the book and not much had happened. But good thing you don't read the beginning last.<br/><br/>I did like the story, I'm a sap for romance,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38479088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49597536">
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    <body><![CDATA[The book The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks, is about a guy named Logan Thilbault who served in the Marines in Iraq. During his service on one of three trips there, he finds a picture of a girl. Carrying the picture makes Logan the luckiest man in the Marines, causing him to break the record of the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49597536">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another charming love story from Nicholas Sparks! This is the story of how a photograph brings together two strangers. Logan, a soldier before the story opens, finds the photograph while serving in Iraq. After surviving a series of close calls Logan comes to believe that the photograph he's been car...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47688707">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read every book Sparks has written. His writing always enthralls me. I get so caught up in his vivid characters that I hate to say good-bye at the end of the story.<br/>   Logan Thibault finds a picture of a pretty woman during his first weeks in Iraq. Although he posts the picture on the comp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46137695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44681534">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 28 15:02:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first novel I've read of Nicholas Sparks, and I was definitely pleased.  I enjoyed Sparks' writing style, as well as his plot and character development.<br/>The Lucky One is about an ex-marine named Logan Thibault, who begins a journey in search of an unknown woman whose picture he foun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44681534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42676960">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nicholas Sparks never fails to captivate my interest with his impressive novels for I have read and enjoyed them all. As soon as his most recent novel, <u>The Lucky One</u> was released, I knew that I had to read it and can now easily say that I was far from disappointed. Nicholas Sparks has the ability to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42676960">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book.  It kept my attention, even though it seemed quite predictable.  I had the idea that there would be some death involved, since there is in any other Nicholas Sparks' book I've ever read, so I was interested to the end, but it had a good twist at the end.  I really liked how the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71251351">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big fan of great endings.  When a book has a lame ending, it makes me dislike the whole book.  After finishing this book, I had to remind myself that I really liked it- up until the ending.  The situation with Clayton was too easily resolved.  Conveniently killing off the character who is cau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45129095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31492707">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book. It was a typical Nicholas Sparks novel in that it had the love story with the &quot;will they or will they not end up together&quot; intrigue and the &quot;who will die in the end&quot; drama that we all know and love. I dont always agree with the endings of Sparks books. I have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31492707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55057445">
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. I've read a few other books by this author and sometimes he can get (for me anyway) a bit too wrapped up in the sexual details. But this one wasn't like that and the story was written really well.<br/><br/>Each chapter's title is the name of the person from the perspectiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55057445">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A marine fighting in Iraq finds a picture of a woman in the sand and becomes convinced she is his lucky charm.  Friends and soldiers around him are dying and he keeps walking away unscathed.  When he returns from the war, he becomes determined to find this woman to pay back the debt he thinks he owe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58063588">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Nicholas Sparks novel and I knew sort of what to expect from seeing the movie 'The Notebook.' I knew it'd be dramatic and there'd be a twist.  Indeed there was both, but the twist didn't make sense.<br/><br/>The book is based around this fundamental idea of &quot;destiny.&quot;  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55698361">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book a lot.  I like the narration from the three different characters. I loved the surprise ending and I love the romance.  I had been a little disappointed with last couple of Nicholas Sparks books but this one was excellent!  <br/><br/>*****Spoilers**Warning the rest of my review ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39314009">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It would probably be tough to write a lot of books without relying on a formula, something many prolific authors seem to develop. Nicholas Sparks, however, isn't formulaic so much as he's predictable. The entire plot of &quot;The Lucky One&quot; is pretty clear from the first few chapters. Nothing s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60796965">more...</a>]]></body>
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