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kirstie22 's review for:
The Longest Ride
by Nicholas Sparks
This book took me quite a while to get through, even when I specifically focused on getting it done. I HATED the chapters with Ira, finding them way too long and drawn out. I get his story is important, and it definitely makes more sense once you've finished the book, but I had no emotional connection at all to Ira or his wife, Ruth. Throughout the entire story, there were a lot of "they went about and did this, and for the next three weekends this is what they did," etc etc. I found it very boring and unecessary. This book definitely could have been compressed to move the story along better and capture my interest. Essentially just boils down to bad writing. It feels like there was no editing done to take out all the unnecessary fillers that had absolutely nothing to do with anything; just super dry explanations of their day-to-day tasks. This is my first Nicholas Sparks read and I am a bit hesitant now to pick up others. It's a good thing his books have produced some good movies...