Monday, October 15, 2007

Always Finding Love in North Carolina

All of Nicholas Sparks books find love unexpectedly. The characters never find love when the seek it, instead love finds them. There is always a conflict, as Nicholas Sparks says in his interview, "In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. (What would Romeo and Juliet be, for instance, if they both lived happily ever after?)" In his books Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember and The Notebook love does not conquer all. The only book where love beat out all the tragedy is A Bend in the Road. So what does a romance genre need to thrive? Seems to be tragedy.



The link provides an interview with Nicholas Sparks.

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