![]() ![]() Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. ![]() For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. by Wally Lamb About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, E ogni ansia e momento di timidezza la portavano a sollevare in continuazione la mano verso la fronte per scostare immaginarie ciocche di capelli in un gesto delicato e nervoso che perdurava ben oltre la scomparsa del motivo che l’aveva scatenato.” Se si sentiva osservata incespicava: confidò a Edward che andare incontro a un amico da una certa distanza era per lei un supplizio. Le stesse dita capaci di un raddoppio su una partita di Bach si rivelavano altrettanto perfette nel rovesciare intere tazze di tè su tovaglie di lino, o bicchieri di vetro su pavimenti di marmo. In tutti gli altri ambiti della vita, in compenso, era di una goffaggine e di un’insicurezza da lasciare allibiti, un continuo inciampare, far cadere oggetti, andare a sbattere. Era Florence la leader indiscussa del gruppo, e a lei spettava sempre l’ultima parola nelle numerose dispute musicali che si presentavano. Here’s hoping for better things from all involved.“In fatto di musica, tutti i suoi gesti erano competenti e armoniosi, che stesse impeciando l’archetto, sostituendo le corde o sistemando la stanza per l’arrivo dei tre compagni del quartetto d’archi che era la sua passione. Otherwise, Hallström’s film is tightly directed and perfectly watchable, with two attractive and likable leads in Tatum and Seyfried, who I think are better actors than their resumes might indicate. Lasse Hallström is typically a reliable director ( What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules), but too often prone to sentimentality the source material is not a good fit here, and too often the film is pushed over the line into – not forgetting the use of 9/11 – trite melodrama. War is a montage here, and Savannah is little more than a background character throughout much of the second half. The opening works well enough, as does the ending in its own schmaltzy way, but the scenes where the young couple are apart (the title, of course, comes from the letters Savannah sends John while he’s away) bring the film to a screeching halt. We’ve seen it all before there are only a few directions this story could go in, and only one for a film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. The main thrust of Dear John is boy meets girl (via standard ‘meet cute’, this time involving a drowning handbag and a hunky diver), boy and girl fall in love, and boy goes to war. The scenes are unexpected and surprisingly touching – not that Hallström isn’t pulling out all the stops the only thing missing is Harry Chapin’s Cat’s in the Cradle on the soundtrack – and will leave most audiences reaching for the tissues.īut the father-son stuff is just a subplot. That’s a shame, because there’s one aspect of the film that, manipulative and schmaltzy as it is, really works: the relationship between John and his father (Richard Jenkins), who seems to suffer from some form of (undiagnosed?) autism. Dear John is a little different, but only in the details: the schmaltz is poured on even thicker, to even less effect. I sense a trend here, not necessarily in the Sparks’ source novels, which I haven’t read, but in the Hollywood adaptations: they’re all manipulative weepers in the vein of Love Story, with endings that no longer surprise. The writer of Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe. This is the moment Dear John dies, not because the 9/11 use is purely exploitative (though you could certainly perceive it that way), but because it overshadows – and puts into perspective – everything else that happens in this Nicholas Sparks romance. But a minute or so later, it’s business as usual, and we realize that the film has invoked 9/11 as a minor plot point: it re-enforces patriotism in soldier John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who signs up for deployment and leaves girlfriend Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) yearning.
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