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Summary: Not bad, but not good
Review: The Bridges of Madison County is not the type of novel that makes you go to sleep from it's boringness, but it's not all too well, either. It's just those type of novels that you don't know what to say about 'em. Whether it was good or bad, whether it was boring or not, and most important of all, whether it's worth spending your money on. I wouldn't. When I first read this novel was one year ago when I was 12. Now I'm 13 and stopped reading Mr. Waller, I just didn't think I should spend my money on authors like Waller when there is much better authors such as Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Stephen King. If those authors don't do it for you, just look at books that won The Pulitzer Prize or The National Book Award. I believe that The Bridges of Madison County was in Oprah's book club, I'm not sure, but if it was, it's credible.
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Summary: Awful and annoying!
Review: A friend recommended this book, trembling as she handed it to me. She thought it was the best thing she'd read in years, and she told me with tears in her eyes. Of course there are male authors that can describe what a woman feels and be pretty close. But I felt this book was too obviously a man's speculation and probably hope of how a woman would feel in reading the story. In short I was annoyed because I felt manipulated and patronized.
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Summary: A must read for everyone over 40.
Review: This was an emotional rollercoaster. The joy and pain of being deeply in love is so well brought out by Mr. Waller. I insisted that my wife listen to the audio book, since she finds in hard to find time to read. She too was overwhelmed with the story. We have since mentioned the book to our friends and have rented the video. Although the movie was good, it could not come close to the incredible story Mr. Waller has written. This story is more remarkable when you take into account Mr. Waller's background and the fact that it was an early, if not his first, book. I look forward to more of his work.
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Summary: My God
Review: This is probably the most hysterically funny book I've ever read. I didn't actually finish it (I mean, come ON . . .) but for an entire summer my friends and I would make each other laugh until we cried by reading some of Waller's truly miserable prose. I thank Mr. Waller for providing for so much unintentional hilarity and I very much pity anyone who actually forced themselves to finish what is truly an awful, insultingly bad book.
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Summary: Fine example of literary milk toast
Review: The Bridges of Madison County is a fine example of literary milk toast. Although blatantly designed to appeal to the emotions of unhappy women, this book is puffed up with such male egotism and strutting nonsense that I can't believe women managed to swallow it. Overwritten, repetitive, and of no lasting literary value, this book never deserved to make it to the best seller list. Thank goodness it was a fast and easy read.
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Summary: A great romance for the housewife
Review: I thought the book was wonderful. It was easy to read, and I couldnt put it down...I had to know what would happen to Francesca and Mr. Kincaid. I read it over the weekend. I wouldnt advise reading it, if your spouse is about to go on a business trip though. Great movie too!!
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Summary: Wish I could give it zero stars
Review: Inane and trite, made exponentially more so by the fact that author was so clearly trying to be deep and spiritual. This book is the opposite of a love story, as we are supposed to sympathize with and feel for a woman having no more and no less than an affair with a man she just met. On top of that, she does it amidst prose that made me alternately laugh and throw the book across the room.
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Summary: Must prepare a box of tissue.
Review: Don't read this if you are going to important events the next day.
Rating:
Summary: Tripe. Don't bother.
Review: I agree with the reader from Oregon who said, "Don't think...," because if you do think, you're doomed to boredom and/or disappointment. And no, not because the book is slow and quiet, but because it's vapid, shallow, and slight. This book is a commercial phenomenon based around a central, simple revelation--that there are a lot of middle-aged women out there who cherish the memory of a lost romance. And I wish to heck I had thought of it. That doesn't make it a good book. It's the worst sort of tripe, and poorly written, too. Its author joins Vanna White among the luckiest people on earth. I'm jealous of him (he made 27 million dollars on this vaporous little composition exercise--aren't you jealous too?), but if you haven't read this book yet, do yourself a favor and don't add your dollar to his coffers.
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Summary: What a load of rubbish
Review: Not only was it a asinine story about nothing, stylisticallythe writer can't write for beans. I cannot believe a book of such 3rd rate quality could capture the hearts of so many. Actually, yes I can.
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