Bestselling author Nicholas Sparks (THE NOTEBOOK, A WALK TO REMEMBER, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, DEAR JOHN, THE LAST SONG, and many more) shares his experience and tips with aspiring writers. For more, www.hachetteboo...
Just heard about the USA Today article where he compares himself to Hemingway and Aeschylus, and calls Cormack McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" melodramatic pulp. After this, I decided to find out who this guys is...maybe I'd like his work, you know? So I go to the book store and look for Nicholas Sparks, and I come upon his name...under THE NOTEBOOK. I LITERALLY FELL ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING WITH PEOPLE STARING AT ME AND I COULDN'T STOP. Commercial success blew this guy's head to the moon.
@movieman1990 BECAUSE.... it makes us view the bright-side of life. People have emotional problems or even worse, someone who died in thier family or a parent who's been deployed and we turn to things like this that would alleviate our minds from dismay or sorrow.
@FaBuL0uSTATiii I think what Sparks is trying to say it that writing doesn't come easily to him. He considers writing the best possible book a challange. He is trying to be modest and doesn't want aspiring writers to think it comes easy. And I have only read one of his books "Three Weeks With Micah" which I enjoyed. So I am not an over the top fan, just an observer.
Like this if you're a fan and not a knob head who likes to complain. Nicholas Sparks is a fantastic author. 7 of his novels have been made into movies, and an 8th is being filmed right now. If every story was the same, then film makers wouldn't keep buying movie rights to his novels. Tbh, I think everyone that is complaining has read one of his books, and cried, and got annoyed because they thought they were all solid, and a big man.
Yes I have and it is the same formula, two white people meet, they fall in love, there is some sort of barrier keeping them apart,something tragic happens and someone dies. The characters themselves are just cliche stereotypes and there is no depth to them at all. He never strays from that formula if anything he could change up the races of the characters
Um my point was that he never uses any other main characters besides heterosexual white ones.The "feelings" he uses in the book are cliche and shallow and the characters are one dimensional. In order for me to become emotionally invested in a story, I have to relate to a character and watch them develop. I don't get that with Nicholas Sparks and I have read six of his books before deeming him to be an horrible writer. Try to refrain from name calling please it discredits your argument.
Really so everyone wants an unrealistic romance. The perfect mate who has no flaws what so ever who's filled with cliche phrases about love. Oh and if this is what everyone wants than apparently minorites,gay people and overweight people don't deserve true love or happiness or never fall in love considering that all of Nicholas Spark's characters are white, skinny and heterosexual.
The formula is the same and the characters are extremely shallow and cliched. 50 Shades of Gray sold over 100 million doesn't make it any less shitty of a book
