The movie Dear John was an impetus for me to get interested of grabbing this Nicholas Spark's book. The movie dont seem be trite and boring emotion-packed love story. It's more sublime, I saw more the contett of life, commitment, purpose, ideals, complexity amidst ordinary situations. All these are found in "The Lucky One". The Lucky One give a charming and simple plot with intellectual conversations and thought provoking questions and surmises in life. Its something easy to get into personal experience (vicarious or first-hand). I see real life character in the persona of Thibault. I never stopped getting amused with Zeus and Nana's choice of words and this octagenarian's metaphors rock! Imagine an old lady comapring two timid and trying not to be obvious lovers as "a camel in Sahara" or "its like hair and slippers"... well, guess what these two means? the camel in Sahara infers compatibility and slippers and hairs alluded to Cinderella and Rapunzel is all about a fairytale.