It's Pick On Nicholas Sparks Week...

...and I'm okay with that.

From Roger Ebert's review of The Last Song:

"The Last Song" is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the screenplay. Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare. Sparks also said his novels are like Greek Tragedies. This may actually be true. I can't check it out because, tragically, no really bad Greek tragedies have survived. His story here amounts to soft porn for teenage girls, which the acting and the abilities of director Julie Anne Robinson have promoted over its pay scale.

You really need to click through and read the last paragraph of the review.  Like, STAT.  (Actually, the whole review is worth reading, but the last paragraph... ZING!)

Via Chasing Ray.