There is a male writer who specializes in romance novels. His works have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. You should know that in the current Chinese book market, publishing a book can sell more than 100,000 copies to be called a bestseller. Who is this writer?
Today we're going to talk about this legendary man, Nicholas Sparks.
Born in 1965, Nicholas, as the "godfather of pure love fiction" in the United States, is famous as a "tear gas". He holds a record of being an author who has been on the New York Times list for more than a year at the same time. Another person who made this record was Harry Potter author J. Lee. K. Rowling, you can see how best-selling Uncle Nee's novels are!
Domestic readers may be unfamiliar with the name, but Hollywood films such as "Letter in a Bottle" and "Love Notebook" have probably heard of it. These films were adapted from Uncle Nee's novels, and almost all of his novels were adapted into film and television works. Starting today, we will talk about Uncle Ni's love story and this charming male writer himself in 3 episodes.
First of all, I would like to introduce you to a few classic Uncle Ni pure love novels:
1. "Letter in a Bottle"
As Uncle Nee's most famous novel, the film of the same name, "Letter in a Bottle", starring Kevin Costner, was released in 1999 and is a classic in American love movies.
The novel tells the story of the heroine Teresa one day after her divorce, while running on the beach, she accidentally picks up a drift bottle with a letter signed G, in which G writes endless thoughts about her late wife. The heroine was deeply moved by the pain and affection revealed in the text. By chance, the letter was published in the newspaper, which caused a huge social repercussion, and fate began to push Teresa to the side of the male protagonist step by step.
Eventually, Teresa finds the owner of the drift bottle, G, and also develops feelings for the man. How will the male protagonist respond to Teresa's affection? Does true love happen only once? When the old love is gone, can the new heart open the heart of the scab?
The process of finding the male protagonist is mysterious, and the reader's heart also fluctuates with the plot; the psychological description of the two sides is sincere and slow, and when the male protagonist asks the heart, the reader is also trying to find the answer. Uncle Nee said that the inspiration for the novel came from his father, and his father's mourning after his mother's death made him start to think about whether he could find true love for the second time in life.
2. "The Best of Me"
Reading romance is also reading the most beautiful look of love. Many people will miss their first love, miss the person who fell in love at an age when they didn't know the pain and didn't care about paying, and stuck together and never wanted to be separated. It's just that many people are scattered in the vast sea of people with their predecessors. In the novel "The Best of Me", Uncle Ni wrote the story of if you meet your first love again.
In the summer of 18 years ago, a couple who didn't fit in the right place, Dawson and Amanda, fell in a crazy love affair. Later, due to yin and yang mistakes, Dawson was imprisoned, and the two had no choice but to separate and live separately. Eighteen years later, a suicide note from an old friend reunites the two who have no intersection back to the old place where they once spent the night together. Time is merciless, in the face of the once beloved and the vigorous youth first love, what kind of story and inner entanglement will the male and female protagonists face?
How happy it was at the beginning, how lonely the days after separation were. When reading love novels and watching love movies, tears are actually falling for the self that has no regrets and is happy in another parallel time and space.
3. "Love on Rodin Island"
The love that people yearn for is probably free from the pure love of parents who are short, oil, salt, rice, and worldly trivia. It is difficult to find in this world, and pure love novelists have specially created an illusion as an outlet for leisurely travel when dreaming.
"Love of Rodin Island" is such a colorful bubble that grows in the paradise.
On weekends, our heroine, Adrian, is entrusted by a friend to help take care of a small inn on Rodin Island in northern California. She took the opportunity to catch her breath and temporarily escape from her husband and daughter, who were worried about her. A sudden storm makes her island a paradise cut off from traffic, and an unforgettable story occurs between the heroine and Dr. Paul Flanders, the only handsome and mature male guest in the inn...
It is said that too frank emotions are not as memorable as a thousand turns, love is not something that can be made up, the more taboo, the more tempting to make mistakes. This story is not complicated, the character environment setting is even a bit routine, but it is difficult to forget after reading it, often reminiscent of the stormy Rodin Island, and the love story of the middle-aged man and woman on the island. This novel was also adapted into a movie, but I personally feel that the movie is not as wonderful as the novel.
4. "Love Notebook"
The story goes like this:
In the early 1940s, Ellie followed her family to the seaside town of Water Creek. In the town, she meets Noah, a local boy, and the two fall in love unsurprisingly. The happiness and sweetness of love were one day shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War. Noah ran away from the army, and the two lost contact during the war years.
A few years later, when the war was over and Noah returned from the battlefield, he still had a dream of Ellie. Ellie, on the other hand, chose to marry someone else after unsuccessfully searching for Noah. Thus began a most poignant and moving story.
Decades later, an old man in a nursing home read a faded notebook to a forgetful old lady, and although the old woman's memory has been blurred, her heart still remembers the love passion between the two. This dying woman was Ellie, the old man who told him the story in the notebook, and it was Noah who had waited for her all her life.
If you want to summarize what kind of love is the most romantic, there should be nothing more popular than long-term companionship. It's not too hard to like someone, and there are not a few people who meet the right ones. It is really not easy to be able to keep the person you love for the rest of your life after the passion of fireworks. Uncle Nee expressed the most complete tribute to the end of love in his pen - I will love you for a long time, until the end of my life. This is also one of the reasons why "Love Notebook" has been sought after by countless people both in the form of a novel and after being adapted into a movie.
Well, this issue is like this, the next issue we will talk about what are the characteristics of writing romance novels from a male perspective, why can Uncle Ni understand the woman's heart so well? See you in the next issue!