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Summary: Honestly, I did cry...
Review: Forgive me, it's been a few years since I've read the book. Remember that part near the end about the swan swimming in the lake, trying to find it's mate that had been shot? Man, was that heart-wrenching!But that was the only emotion that surfaced in me while reading this horrible book. I read it because it was highly recommended to me by a friend who studies journalism at Northwestern. I respected her literary opinions until I read this. In fact, I was skimming through it at the end! I can't find words to describe this trash. Harlequin novels are better than this.
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Summary: Enormous entertainment potential
Review: For those of you one-star people whose reviews were filled with acrimony--come now. It's not that bad. You, too, can enjoy Bridges. Here's what you do: some slow summer evening, when you and your loved one are tired and stressed from your respective workdays, sit down together by the fire and read each other passages from Bridges. Soon, you will find yourselves rolling on the floor with laughter, tears streaming from your eyes. (I will always cherish my husband's lengthy speculation on what the oft-mentioned "old ways" *really* referred to--grandma's baking secrets? the merits of card catalogues?) Yes, this is perfectly awful fiction, but a wonderful bonding opportunity nonetheless.
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Summary: Absolutely Horrible!
Review: This was absolute rubbish. The only thing good about this book was when it was over. I didn't know that books that lacked plot and character depth could make it to the best sellers list. If we are lucky, Waller will spare us any more of his so called 'talent'.
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Summary: An interesting book
Review: My girlfriend loved the book. She gave me the book as a gift. Ithought it was good too -- I used it to find out more about my beloved woman. We both had advanced degrees and are considered intelligent by peers. That was several years ago. It's an interesting (albeit not so great) book. A must read if your woman likes it -- a great way to communicate with her. Try visualize the imaginary scenes, listen to that lingering sax and smell the scent of the wild flowers -- it's not so bad...
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Summary: An interesting book
Review: My girlfriend loved the book. She gave me the book as a gift. I thought it was good too -- I used it to find out more about my beloved woman. We both had advanced degrees and are considered intelligent by peers. That was several years ago. It's an interesting (albeit not so great) book. A must read if your woman likes it -- a great way to communicate with her. Try visualize the imaginary scenes, listen to that lingering sax and smell the scent of the wild flowers -- it's not so bad...
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Summary: A frightening sign of the decline in literacy
Review: The scariest thing about this book is that people think it'sany good. I read this book a few years ago out of curiosity to see what all the fuss was about. As I read it, I realized, to my astonishment, that the strictly standard Harlequin Romance I had read a few years previously, again out of curiosity, had been much better. Harlequin Romances, if the one I read was any example, are at least workmanlike. You get what you pay for. This book, on the other hand, is such an abject failure of any kind of writing that you don't know whether to laugh aloud at the writer's incompetence or cry at what has happened to people's standards of what makes a good book. The writing is not just bad; it is stupidly, triumphantly bad. The characters are not believable and what the author has them thinking and saying is riddled with unintended comedy. If you want to read something better than this book, go to a drugstore book rack, close your eyes, put out your hand, and take home the first paperback romance you pick up. If you want to read something much better, there are books on similar themes recommended in some of the previous reviews. A one-star rating is far too high for this book, but it is the lowest Amazon will go.
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Summary: A frightening sign of the decline in literacy
Review: The scariest thing about this book is that people think it's any good. I read this book a few years ago out of curiosity to see what all the fuss was about. As I read it, I realized, to my astonishment, that the strictly standard Harlequin Romance I had read a few years previously, again out of curiosity, had been much better. Harlequin Romances, if the one I read was any example, are at least workmanlike. You get what you pay for. This book, on the other hand, is such an abject failure of any kind of writing that you don't know whether to laugh aloud at the writer's incompetence or cry at what has happened to people's standards of what makes a good book. The writing is not just bad; it is stupidly, triumphantly bad. The characters are not believable and what the author has them thinking and saying is riddled with unintended comedy. If you want to read something better than this book, go to a drugstore book rack, close your eyes, put out your hand, and take home the first paperback romance you pick up. If you want to read something much better, there are books on similar themes recommended in some of the previous reviews. A one-star rating is far too high for this book, but it is the lowest Amazon will go.
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Summary: magical, lyrical, a true joy
Review: Waller's book is a joy to read. It is magical, lyrical. The tenderness shared by the characters raises the sprit to a new level. Call it a "woman's book" if you like -- men could learn a lot from reading it. The book is a "quiet" tribute to a small moment in time.
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Summary: Not only a love story.
Review: If you think you have read all the romantic stories published, you're wrong. The Bridges of Madison County is not only a love story but a story full of passion, loyalty, resignation, and true love. A farmer's wife with an incredible world of hidden and forgotten feelings awaken by a bohemian photographer in his eternal search for nature's beauty.
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Summary: This book was pure crap!
Review: The publisher didn't have much sense since he published thiscrap! I can't believe this was a bestseller. Please don't read this book, you'll go into a deep depression, that is if you're awake enough to read it!!! :(
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