edstile said:
nacluth said:
TallTexan said:
I've heard Edstile is a big fan of the Nicholas Sparks books.
This explains so much.
Say what?
I was going to make some smart aleck remark about your confession, but then I checked the leaderboard on the contest and decided to keep my mouth shut.
True confession time: I actually have read a lot of Nicholas Sparks books (sappy chick lit for those who don't know). Message in a Bottle his first bestseller came out right as I was going to college, and my stepmom started reading his stuff. She would send them to me, and since they typically were only a couple hours read, I read most of them.
However, one the strangest occurrences happened when she pre-ordered his Three Weeks with my Brother book for me back in 2006. It's a memoir told in diary entries about a trip around the world with his brother following some tragic events in their family. I guess I received it the day it was released, and because I had nothing going on, I started right away. The dates of the diary in the book were mainly from 2005, but as I read into the book they got into 2006. Soon (I was reading in September) they got to August and I had plenty of pages left. I kept thinking, "I'm going to turn the page, and it's going to be today he's writing about." It was a freaky feeling. The final entry was written 9 days before I received the book. I can't imagine what had to happen between author, editor, publisher, printing, and Amazon to get a book to me in 9 days for a bestseller like that book. But it happened.
I'm not a big Nicholas Sparks fan, but he has an efficient machine behind him - not unlike Isaac and the Sawmill.