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Summary: The "dumbing down" of literature continues
Review: Try not to laugh when Kincaid says "I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea."This book was highly recommended to me by a co-worker. I read it in an afternoon (Thank God that I didn't waste any more time than that on it.) and was just appalled. The dialogue was absurd, the characters pathetic. It almost read like a National Lampoon parody. I had always considered my co-worker to be reasonably intelligent (she has a doctorate for God's sake) but after I read this I never looked at her quite the same. This book should appeal to those who consider "The Young and the Restless" art.
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Summary: The "dumbing down" of literature continues
Review: Try not to laugh when Kincaid says "I am the highway and aperegrine and all the sails that ever went to sea." This book was highly recommended to me by a co-worker. I read it in an afternoon (Thank God that I didn't waste any more time than that on it.) and was just appalled. The dialogue was absurd, the characters pathetic. It almost read like a National Lampoon parody. I had always considered my co-worker to be reasonably intelligent (she has a doctorate for God's sake) but after I read this I never looked at her quite the same. This book should appeal to those who consider "The Young and the Restless" art.
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Summary: This could happen to anybody
Review: For those who put in their review and said that this is a horrible or anything else meaning this is not a good book, I think they are not the person who ever experience one. This can happen to anybody in the world, so come on.....be realistic. I think this is the most realistic book I have ever read.
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Summary: Waller's novel touches the soul.
Review: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is one of those haunting novelslike Fournier's THE WANDERER or McBride's THE CLEARING. It gives you hope, it rekindles those embers within the heart that have a lmost gone cold. If you know or liked THE WANDERER or THE CLEARING, you'll love THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.
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Summary: Waller's novel touches the soul.
Review: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is one of those haunting novels like Fournier's THE WANDERER or McBride's THE CLEARING. It gives you hope, it rekindles those embers within the heart that have almost gone cold. If you know or liked THE WANDERER or THE CLEARING, you'll love THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.
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Summary: I WAS HOOKED
Review: Unabashedly sentimental and easily moved, I am one of the manymany people swept up in the simple love story in this book. Robert James Waller definitely hit a soapy nerve; people are still gobbling up this simplistic kids-book-for-adults. And, easy read though it is, with little real wit or style, the essential story, which some claim is predictable, still resonated deeply for me at the conclusion. Unrequited love is a mighty powerful conceit, regardless of how many times it is replayed. And the characters, though underdeveloped, are well-imagined, and have appealing qualities, particularly Francesca, who exudes a soft melancholy throughout. Mish, mash, mush, whatever, if you like love stories that take you away, albeit manipulate you, with transporting sentimentality, you'll curl up with this book more than once, and enjoy it every time.
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Summary: I WAS HOOKED
Review: Unabashedly sentimental and easily moved, I am one of the many many people swept up in the simple love story in this book. Robert James Waller definitely hit a soapy nerve; people are still gobbling up this simplistic kids-book-for-adults. And, easy read though it is, with little real wit or style, the essential story, which some claim is predictable, still resonated deeply for me at the conclusion. Unrequited love is a mighty powerful conceit, regardless of how many times it is replayed. And the characters, though underdeveloped, are well-imagined, and have appealing qualities, particularly Francesca, who exudes a soft melancholy throughout. Mish, mash, mush, whatever, if you like love stories that take you away, albeit manipulate you, with transporting sentimentality, you'll curl up with this book more than once, and enjoy it every time.
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Summary: Bridges to Nowhere
Review: Frankly, I can't understand all the hoopla concerning thisbook. It seems to me a very ordinary sort of romance plot and the book is not particularly well written either. It is a psychologically thin novel -- the author does not delve into why a happily married woman should throw herself so cheerfully into adultery, and why one cheap, trashy fling should be considered so life changing. There is no competent analysis as to what love really is and the pathos of lifelong separation between the lovers are neither believable nor sensible. The book stands for false emotions. I draw a parallel between this book and Erich Segal's "Love Story" which was just as enormously popular, but which I find just as simplistic. Why do they succeed while scores of others like them fall by the wayside, and so many better novels have to be pulped? One can only wonder at the mysterious element called "luck."
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Summary: Bridges to Nowhere
Review: Frankly, I can't understand all the hoopla concerning this book. It seems to me a very ordinary sort of romance plot and the book is not particularly well written either. It is a psychologically thin novel -- the author does not delve into why a happily married woman should throw herself so cheerfully into adultery, and why one cheap, trashy fling should be considered so life changing. There is no competent analysis as to what love really is and the pathos of lifelong separation between the lovers are neither believable nor sensible. The book stands for false emotions. I draw a parallel between this book and Erich Segal's "Love Story" which was just as enormously popular, but which I find just as simplistic. Why do they succeed while scores of others like them fall by the wayside, and so many better novels have to be pulped? One can only wonder at the mysterious element called "luck."
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Summary: Heartbreaking/Romantic
Review: this book brought tears to my eyes when i realized that we should not take people for granted whom we love. francescas great sacrifice to not follow her heart and the man that she loved was for her family and even though it was for a great cause she was the one that ended up affected because she had a little ritual every year after the death of robert kincaid. its a great story that will bring you to tears as you enjoy a four day love that lasted to her death. i recommend this book if you like romantic novels especially heart breaking one's.
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