Having spent the last few nights vigorously reading an amazing new book by Nick Sparks, I must say I am appalled.
The Last Song was an incredible and very sad story about a teenager as she is forced to reunite with her father, whom she has not talked to in three years, and spend the summer with him.
I got very into this book and enjoyed reading it from the start. I even ended up crying my eyes out during the unexpected ending, not too surprising coming from a Nick Spark's book.
Anyway, I found out tonight that the book was written specifically so Miley Cyrus could play the main character in a movie. Miley approached Sparks and asked him to write it so that she could portray a more serious role in the upcoming movie (set to come to theaters in April 2010) and try to appeal to the older crowd.
The book no longer has as much meaning to me. Knowing it was written for a teen "pop star," who I personally think is a joke and cannot sing, I feel this is ridiculous. I have to question whether Sparks put his best effort into the book because he was writing the novel and the screenplay simultaneously.
Nick Sparks is my all-time favorite author and I am pretty sure I have read all of his books. I felt like I could personally connect to this novel more because it was about a teenager as she fought with her parents, fell in love, and struggled to make decisions for her future.
Now that I know the image Sparks used to create the character, I don't like her anymore. I honestly think Sparks did an incredibly dumb thing here and I hope the movie is terrible!
Agree!!
If you liked the book so much before you found out
that Miley was the main character, than what's your problem?
The book has merit as it stands on it's own as a good novel.
Don't go and see the movie and leave it at that. Nick Sparks
is still an amazing storyteller regardless of what you think about
his reasons for writing The Last Song.