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Nights in Rodanthe Review

I've never been a fan of the works of Nicholas Sparks, but then again, I'm an adult male. Sparks, who wrote the novels upon which Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook and now Nights in Rodanthe are based, is a salesman of sentimenality -- a guy who plunders the depths of romantic desperation to create fantasies for women and women alone. All of which is why his latest adaptation is so completely inappropriate and unappealing to me, and -- likely -- to our readers: Even though it is competently mounted, Nights in Rodanthe's unrestrained sentimentality will no doubt make many girlfriends swoon even as it makes their boyfriends squirm uncomfortably.
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