The Notebook

“Somewhere,” muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, “there were people making love.” Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if youre in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further.?ÿThe Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago? Were not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesnt count. Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimers, her beau uses “the notebook” to read her the story of the great love shes plumb forgot.?ÿThe Notebook–film rights already sold, thank you very much–is a little glazed doughnut of a book: sticky- sweet, satisfying, not much nourishment. But who cares? Take an extra vitamin and indulge.