Up until today I was rather prejudiced of Nicholas Sparks and his books. The thing is that this guy writes stories based on the same story line- a tragic love story, in which someone dies and their better half is left behind with nothing but memories. Take for example- A Walk To Remember, Message in a Bottle or even Nights in Rodanthe, all these stories work on a similar story line and after 3 books you realise that you’ve had just about enough of this author and his stereotypical plots or more likely his tragic romances.
But I must say that after reading ‘Nights in Rodanthe’, my prejudices against this man and his works have almost vanished. This is because I figured out that there was just one small thing that makes his books interesting and makes the reader want to go back for more- forgiving his monotonous theme. And this one thing is the freshness in his style!
This man uses several metaphors and draws up a rather graphic image, while literally giving your sense organs a run for their money by his tiny details. ‘The odor of sulphur hung in the air when he struck the first match’, ‘he heard a sound like the crinkling of paper as the logs began to catch (fire)’, ‘Stars were blazing like tiny sparkles on a magician’s cape’ are a few of his lines from Nights in Rodanthe that I think are absolutely brilliant.
Seriously if you guys plan on writing stuff and need to work on your metaphors or graphic detail thing I’d advice you to read his books, for his detail is simply awesome and could give us some help with our own writing skills :)!
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