Best romance novels turned to video

The Notebook

True and enduring love against disaproval of others. True to the end until death do us part.

Message in a Bottle

The pain of loss. Overcoming the judment of deceased wifes family and the opening of the widowers heart to new love.

The Thornbirds

Love denied and accepted. The pain of loving someone not available for marriage while forgiving them with enduring love.

Winds of War  & War and Rememberance The Love history of a family and how the build up to World War II and the demands and trageties affect their marriages and families due to circumstance. I appreciated the historical research required to be accurate to history. It is one of the few Movies based on a novel which is 100% true to the novel. Both reach the screen intact ,with no Hollywood sensationalism added nor huge amounts left out.

I remember once watching ShoGun being on TV. The original broadcasts I missed because I was working 3-11. So when it was on on my weekend off My daughter and I sat down to watch it. Now understand the original was 5 episodes of two hours each. This was a 2 hr total. One of us took a bathroom break and heard the other say hurry you just missed 300 pages. It was so condensed that it lost meaning. I read the book and I was confused. It could not have meant much to those who had not read it.

Sue Kelly