"Message in a Bottle" reminds me more and more of "Sleepless in Seattle," only I really think that I enjoyed Sleepless a lot more. There are so many similarities - Theresa (the main character in MIAB) is touched by a letter she found at the ocean - Annie (Meg Ryan in SIS) is touched by a caller on a radio show - they both work for newspapers. Both have overweight best friends who encourage their "obsession" with men they have never met. As a side note - I am excited for the movie MIAB and Theresa's overweight best friend - will she be better than Rosie? Can she be better?
Most of all, they both ACT on their obsessions - Theresa flies down to Garrett (the man) and pretends that she doesn't know why she's there to him. They're falling in love and it sort of makes me want to puke. In SIS Annie flies to Seattle to meet Sam (Tom Hanks) and freaks out and walks away. Not to mention that they both use their connections with the newspaper they work for and the Internet to creep on the men of their obsessions.
I do have a feeling that Theresa isn't going to get the happy ending that Annie did. It is just a hunch - also the foreshadowing at the beginning was a huge clue.
(As a mildly embarrassing side note - I am now mildly hooked on the second "The Girl..." book and it is even better than the first! Could that be possible?)
Off to be touched with more "poignant love stories."
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