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Title: Please explain this undeserved phenomenon to me.
Review: I'm still agog after the reading experience of The Notebook. I believe it's still on the bestseller list and it made the number one spot on some magazine's (ok, so it was Glamour) reader-submitted list of the top-ten love stories of all time. Topping Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice no less. Even the number two spot-- Bridges over Madison County--was a mildly diverting read.This debut effort is the most simplistic, hackneyed, uninvolving novel I've ever read. Cognizant of all the hooplaa, I kept waiting for the story to get better. It never did and I was glad when I turned the last page.I see from the reviews that four stars is the average score. Here's a one-star to balance out such undeserved approbation. Of course, Sparks is laughing all the way to the bank over his literary coup.
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