The Notebook

Written by Nicholas Sparks, this was the book that the movie was adapted from. After reading the book, the way the story developed in the movie wasn't the same way in the book.
The book opens with the time when both Allison Hamilton and Noah Calhoun were young adults. Allie decides to drop by to meet Noah and they receive each other casually - not with the awkwardness shown in the movie. They spend good time together and the interaction between the two takes place differently. They too think about the past and their first meeting was with less friction, than showed in the movie.
Then the book pans back to the current state Noah, who describes his battles with rheumatoid athritis and his wife's memory loss. He talks about his daily pain of watching his wife asking who he is and watching how she struggles with her forgetful reality.
Now, again, in the young adult time, an emotional discussion leads to a passionate night and then the breakup with Lon and choosing of Allie to spend the rest of her life with Noah. Lots of her letters to him and his letters to her were explicitly written in the book, which were really touching.
Finally, with deteriorating disease, both the characters die in each others' arms.
I found the movie better flowing and realistic, compared to the book. I usually read the books associated with the movies to better capture the emotions and thoughts of the characters, but in this case, I had go back to the movie to adjust to lack of emotional description in the book. But the book was easy and quick to read.