A Walk to Remember

Yeah, the book came out a long time ago. I heard all about the hype they created over the book and the movie but I never bothered to read the book until last month. I get curious too, you know? I watched the movie around last year I think, and I thought the movie was quite good. Shane West was so gorgeous! Half of the time, I was staring at his lips. I'm starting to like those thin upper lips. So sexy....;)

But then, I'm a sucker for bad boys so maybe I'm a little bit biased.

The movie was quite typical. Bad boy falls in love for a good girl, but in the end he gets heartbroken. But in this story, they really did love each other. It was quite sad that Jamie had to die. But hey, some things aren't just meant to be.

What was even sadder and tragic was that this really did happen. Sparks wrote the story for his sister Danielle. To think that some people like Jamie and Landon really lived, was quite inspiring.

One thing I noticed was the movie and the book was vastly different from each other. The plot was more or less the same. But I enjoyed the movie more, I think. Reading the book, I was quite uninterested at first, but Jamie was such an interesting character. I finished the book enventually.

Nicholas Sparks had a part in writing the screenplay for the movie as well. I read from an interview that if they had followed the book exactly, no one would have been interested since it was set in the 1950s 0r 1960s. Yeah, he was right in that one. No teenager would have watched that. But when he changed it to a modern setting (the new millenium), Landon was so much mischevious. From hanging out at the cemetery eating peanuts (who does that nowadays? I was like, he seriously did that???) to being a total jerk and bullying other students.

The play in the book was different. In this case, I think I prefer that Sparks had stuck to the idea in his book. It made Jamie's dad sound more human. Well, we all saw that in the movie, Jamie's dad did worry about his daughter but the book expressed that feeling more.

Oh yeah, another difference. Jamie really did gave a Bible to Landon when she was dying.

I think I prefer the movie version better. Don't get me wrong, I liked the book. It was GOOD. Very well written. Both of the movie and book scores 4 stars on my meter. :)