Why Do Chicks Dig Sparks?

I don't know. But whenever I ask the ladies whether they read books and they say yes, they would always add " especially Nicholas Sparks." What the hell is with the guy? Okay, his stuff are pretty much girly. Novels that are turned into tear-jerkers that proved to be commercial success on the silver screen (A Walk to Remember, The Last Song, The Notebook, Message In A Bottle). For a guy, he writes some stuff that women tend to enjoy more.

My sisters, friends and colleagues would sometimes rant about him and his novels nonstop that my ears start to bleed on the endless praises "oh, he's just sooo good" and "he knew how things are, really."

So, in vague attempt to at least understand why Sparks is the "name", I tried to read some of his stuff during the holidays  and my bum period as well. And yeah, women would definitely dig it because most of his male protagonists are portrayed as the weaker sex and women at the end would be the "hero" or more politically correct is heroine, so to speak.

I have read A Walk To Remember, Message In A Bottle and The Notebook and I find them, well, quite too girly. LOL. But what I liked about Mr. Sparks is the richness of emotions embedded in his works, although sometimes could be so melodramatic. But that's what chicks dig, so yeah. Whatever.