Title: Don't waste money on the book or the movie
Product review: This book should have been a step up from Sparks' first novel, The Notebook, where he combined amateur prose with a simplistically beautiful love story. However, Message in a Bottle lacked The Notebook's ring of truth and the writing was more uneven. It seemed as if Sparks couldn't quite convince himself that the hero could have a true love other than his "Catherine" (also the name of Sparks' wife). The book should have been character-centered, but instead Sparks forced his characters into unbelievable situations. As for the movie, a dead fish could have brought more life to the role than Kevin Costner.
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