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Summary: Would you want to read this?
Review: I quote from the back cover:"HE NOTICED ALL OF HER . . . He could have walked out on this earlier, could still walk. Rationality shrieked at him. "Let it go, Kincaid, get back on the road. Shoot the bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with her at dawn in jungle pools and listen to her scream as you turn her inside out at twilight. Let go of this" -- the voice was hissing now -- "it's outrunning you." But the slow street tango had begun. Somewhere it played; he could hear it, an old accordion. It was far back, or far ahead, he couldn't be sure. Yet it moved toward him steadily. And the sound of it blurred his criteria and funneled his own alternatives toward unity. Inexorably it did that, until there was nowhere left to go, except toward Francesca Johnson." Boy, that sure is some fine writing.
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Summary: This is a NARCISSITIC book, devoid of any empathy
Review: After reading Bridges, I kicked myself for not having stuck to my guns and refused to read it as I had originally promised myself. Fortunately on searching for Bridges I stumbled across the quaint: Fridges (sic) of Madison County at Amazon and found it to be a delicious spoof of the original. It almost made reading Bridges worthwhile!
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Summary: This book stirred memories of a love lost deep in my soul.
Review: I loved this book. I found myself crying openly at the very end. I was so moved with the way that Waller was able to portray the most intimate details that one feels about someone who sparks something deep within their heart. Waller captured the feeling that comes along with falling in love for the first time, and coming face to face with someone who represents your first half. The one who makes you who you are. The one who defines love.
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Summary: this book contains the natural beauty of pain and love.
Review: b.o.m.c. explores chance, life, love, and choices. this book appealed to me as a photographer, woman, romantic, and human. r.j.w. takes the time to set the mood and timeframe of this country setting, as well as the time to wrap the relationship of these two people around the reader, so that the feelings are real, and the novel's journey is unstoppable. i've read it three times, and i can never put it down until the last page. a masterpiece and a work of art.
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Summary: A sorry waste of trees
Review: I am female. I am a romantic. And I couldn't stand it. This book is so banal and badly written one wonders how it got published at all. The fact that it became such a huge success tells us more about the state of literacy and education in our world than about the quality of this book. The prose is wooden, the characters are comatose and the story is so ridiculous and hypocritical you want to throw up. The only reason I read it at all is I got stuck for three days in a camp with no other book around. A hint for amazon.com: please introduce a no-star category. A hint for Mr. Waller: please do not write any more books.
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Summary: So many other author do it better
Review: Since the book was given to me as a gift, and the giver was so taken by the novel, I was compelled to read it. Upon being asked by my friend what I though of it, I struggled to be as gentle as possible. She was one of those who had been moved to tears having read the book. I to was brought to tears as I read the book, knowing I had to continue to struggle through the most poorly written book I have ever read. Summoning up my compasion I told her that it must have some merit, since it moved her in such a way, but that I felt nothing (to myself thinking, what a load of pathetic dribble). I recommended that if she wanted to read authours who portray, passion, romance, and can develope real characters, in real places, with an ability to move the reader, she could pick anyone of a number of authours; such as Hemmingway, Maugham, etc. These authors know how to write bold moving stories. Waller's attempt at writing inspiring passion only succeed in pointing out what good books are all about, by comparison to a very bad one.
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Summary: BORING!
Review: This book was a best-seller? I had to read it twice to make sure it was as bad as I thought it was the first time!
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Summary: You can do better, my friends
Review: Why waste your time with this insignificant, shallow book? May I suggest instead that you rent Brief Encounter (based on Noel Coward's Still Life) or A Summer Story (based on Galsworthy's The Apple Tree)? Both of those are about fast romances, missed chances, and obligation to duty. And they are both way more powerful than this treacle. You think Francesca's seeing Robert at the end is so heartbreaking? See the mirror bit in A Summer Story. Oh, and read more books before you call this the greatest one you ever read. Time to reread Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I'm outta here.
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Summary: Disgusting, mindless PAP
Review: I couldn't stand this book - pretentious, sickening, badly written. Of course all my female friends love it and think there's something wrong with me (e.g., I don't have a heart because I don't like it.) Well, I do have a heart but I sure don't have the heart to read this again - or to recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: A Shaman's textbook.
Review: I love this book because the story was so fun and the characters were so alive. It made me intereted in exploring bridges and photography.
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