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  <title><![CDATA[The Choice]]></title>
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  <default_description>#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?


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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Choice</original_title>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should preface this review by saying that The Choice was a really thoughtful Christmas gift from my little brother, Darren.  I'm glad I read it, as I've been curious about the Nicholas Sparks following (at least among a certain, um, demographic).  Sparks' writing style is also clear, it's an absur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11702463">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 17 15:01:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 21 18:38:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Sparks, All my life I believed in order for a wonderful marriage all you needed was true love. And now, knowing that for a relationship to work it needs much more then love, reading your books is honestly quite pathetic and sad. All your books are the same, have you ever thought about writing a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27559707">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 20 02:35:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 20 04:14:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This man has the uncanny ability to shatter my heart into a million pieces and put it back together again with the precision of a surgeon. Why is it that life seems so much sweeter after tragedy? Maybe gratitude isn't a natural state - it's just something we come to through experience. <br/><br/>I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35745036">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 19 09:58:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 16 14:25:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a medical professional, I was a bit disturbed by the end to this story. The story Gabby told of a person unresponsive for decades is much more true to life than what happened at the end of this story. Plus, I was shocked Sparks didn't kill her off--that seemed much more in line with his novels. B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7938875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7889921">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Oct 20 21:25:15 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For all you Nicholas Sparks fans out there, rest assured, he's done it again.  He's written another ridiculously perfect, impossible not to cry over, romance.  I'm usually not a fan of this type of work, but as I've said before, there's something about a Nicholas Sparks book I can't resist.  It's li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7889921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33929386">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Oct 04 19:24:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Choice has assured I will never read another Nicholas Sparks book. I found this novel to be a long-winded, tedious waste of time.  And I got really irritated with his lack of research.  If you are going to write about a dog whelping – get your facts right.    If you are going to write about co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33929386">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been my favorite book and my plan is to read every Nicholas Sparks book. I read this book last summer and this book is also about love and promises. I learned not all promises should be kept (even though they should). This married couple has been together quite some time and they had there ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49520798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When a new Nicholas Sparks novel comes out, you know what you're in for - a southern romance between a romantic, lovable, handsome man and an intelligent, independent, naturally beautiful woman.  It will be a fast read that makes you long for the simple, small town life.  I'm not a big fan of romanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9557540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pulled at my heart strings and ended up crying for about 5 mintues at the end.  His writting has a way of getting in your head and you can imagine yourself in the situation. What would you do......]]></body>
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    <review id="43312639">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very interesting. Like most of Nicholas Sparks romance books you fall in love with the characters and what the best to happen for them, but in a small way some thing goes wrong, but it always ends up leaving you all warm inside. <br/>I find this one different because even though the ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43312639">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 21 10:55:43 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 21 11:03:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to be in a certain type of mood to read a Sparks book.  A friend told me this was a good, but I get irritated with Sparks tendency to kill off his protagonists by the end.<br/><br/>The Choice is a great read (and thoughtful...who doesn't need to be reminded that we all need Living Wills.)  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38317706">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book wasn't one of my favorites, although it did have a happy ending which isn't that common with books written by Nicholas Sparks. I think the reason that I didn't love the book was because of the female character, Gabby. I thought she was rather dull and kind of bratty.<br/>I was inspired by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45260678">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 30 14:40:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[White perusing Barnes &amp; Noble for birthday book ideas I saw The Choice by Nicholas Sparks. I’ve read a couple of Sparks’ books and really enjoyed them, so I thought I’d give this one a shot. I keeping with my mom’s you-can-get-it-from-the-library mentality, I looked it up and checked it out....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38962804">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[We can nod at the obvious that The Choice is typical Nicholas Sparks; faithful readers are not likely to be disappointed. Unless, of course, they actually think about it too much.<br/>To be fair, Sparks has declared his interest is writing best-sellers, not something else, and in today’s world th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68897479">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it's not 'The Notebook,' but it's still a page turner.<br/>I am a fan of Nicholas Sparks anyway, and most of his books leave you with a good feeling when you are finished reading, this one is no exception.<br/><br/><br/>INFO:  About a man and woman meeting under interesting circumstances, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66727819">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun May 10 15:23:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 10 15:31:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book the Choice is about a lady named Gabby who moves next door to Travis a guy who has three friends since kindergarden. All of them married Travis believes that if he too gets married then he will have his schedule provoked so he acts &quot;neighborly&quot; to Gabby. Helping her give birth to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55598412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, what a monumental waste of time and money!! It was insipid and anyone could have written it without being a bestselling author.  The worst thing is that I paid full price for it at the airport and didn't even like it well enough to pass it on to anyone else to read.  Why inflict more pain? I d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54048582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book which could be spoiled for the reader if too many details of the plot are given. Suffice it to say that it is a love story with several emotional ups and downs. It also illustrates the importance of choices and the effect that our choices have on our life.<br/><br/>Famous for his ta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65510287">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going try and remember that I read this as a pleasure read, and I am not to tear at it and break it down analytically. <em>But I just can't <u>help</u> it. </em><br/>This is my third Nicholas Sparks novel, after <em>Nights in Rodanthe</em> and <em>The Notebook.</em> I did not like the other two very much, mostly because they fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76422293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love a good romance and I really love the concept around which this book is based, that being the idea of choice.  But, I just don't think Sparks executed a story about choice as well as it could  be done. He spends too much time writing in roundabout terms in an attempt to keep the reader in susp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46625469">more...</a>]]></body>
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