It won't be long now before the movie adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' "The Lucky One" hits a theater near you—at which point the love-addled-but-gorgeously-muscled Iraq war veteran played by Zac Efron will claim his rightful place on the list of People In Movies You Wish You Could Actually Date. A list which is, let's be real, probably populated entirely by Nicholas Sparks characters, because Nicholas Sparks is a conniving villainous fiend who just wants you to know how very UNromantic your life is with the boyfriend he didn't make up in his wildly creative head. (Yeah, thanks, Nicholas. Thanks for the fact that no matter what we do, nobody is ever going to write us letters every day for a year and then make out with us in the rain and then love us forever and ever because Noah Calhoun is not real. It's not like that gave us unattainable expectations or anything.)
But much as we love to hate Nicholas Sparks, we love to love him, too, because the man's books are just so damnably adaptable for the screen! Which is why, over the past two decades, we've seen movie after movie featuring the words "based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks" on the poster—and why, while we wait for our New Fake Boyfriend Zac Efron to make his appearance in "The Lucky One," we're going back through all the films featuring Nicholas' stories to decide which is our favorite! And by ours, we mean yours. So c'mon, tell us: Which one of these tear-jerking, heart-breaking, relationship-comparison-inducing romance makes you the most crazy in the best possible way? Vote in our poll after the jump!
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