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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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <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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    <body><![CDATA[When reading this book, Nicholas Sparks lets the reader feel exactly how strong the power is between love and destiny. The way he portrays each character is in such a way that anyone can relate each person to someone in their own lives. One of the main characters, Thibault, decides to find the perso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81346770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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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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    <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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