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Summary: If Only it were Different
Review: If you are are crazy about romance novels, than this is a extroidenary read for you. This tear jerking sensual novel will even make you feel the emotions running through your soul. Fransesca Johnson, a farm wife in Iowa married her husband Richard whom she met in Italy. Richard was stationed in the Army when they married and they went on to make a family with two loving children. This novel took a turn when Richard and the children went out of town on a short trip for only a couple of days, how could a few days without her family cause Fransesca to fall in love so fast? It was a normal day for Fransecsa up until an unexpected knock was heard on her door. She opened it to see a gentleman standing on the top step looking lost. Robert Kincaid, a photographer for National Geographic was on an assignment to photograph old Briges of Madison County, Iowa. An enexpected romance blossomed at that time and love was in the air. It took only days for Fransesca and Robert to fall in love. The depth and power of their love made the whole world revolve around the two. I recommend this book mainly for ages sixteen and older. It is a very sensual book, with a marital affair I don't recommend it for anyone much younger. The writers style will capture your attention so fast.
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Summary: Best Romance of All Time!
Review: I've read a lot of romances but this beats them all, by far. Get ready to read until you finish and have a big box of Puffs (w/lotion) nearby. I thought of nearly nothing else for several hours after reading it. I love it, I love it, I love it!
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Summary: True Love : Found and Lost
Review: In the Bridges of Madison County, the reader meets Francesca Johnson. A middle-aged woman living in rural Iowa, married yet very lonely. A traveling photographer, Robert Kincaid, shows up on her doorstep one warm Summer afternoon looking for directions. Thus begins a brief encounter between the two but would linger in their hearts and memories for a lifetime.
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Summary: Mean people suck
Review: I've left a review and I've read all the other reviews. Some of them were productive and others were not so productive. I believe that if you truly thought this book was awful, you have never loved another person in your life. All you disbelievers out there need to let go of reality once in a while and have some fun with what you're reading. Isn't that part of what reading is all about anyways?!?! I feel bad for those of you who hated it because you have probably never been in love or ever will be. I'm very much in love...you should try it.
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Summary: The most powerful book I've read yet.
Review: I am in my mid 20's and have just begun reading novels and such. My mother actually lent me her copy of BOMC and I was skeptical about it. I have never read romance novels or anything like that, never thought that I would like it, but this book changed all that. I could not put this book down. It was powerful and sensitive, wonderful and magical. It was so many things, it's hard to describe. I actually wanted to read it again as soon as I finished it. I was sad that it was over so quickly, I actually can't wait to read the epilogue. To anyone who is pondering reading this book, please do, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Is this really true?
Review: I could easily spend four days with a woman like Francesca. To base my life on this short affair just is not plausible. Men think differently than women do, it is our nature. Our attitudes are needed for survival in dangerous positions, and survival of the species.
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Summary: Lost opportunity for a fine short story
Review: This would have been a fine, intriguing, short story had it been better written. The editor should have gotten busy with a red pen.
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Summary: A legendary love story.
Review: What is it in a story that takes it to the New York Times Best Seller List for three years or 156 weeks? When I read this book, that was what I wanted to know. I look at the book on the shelf and think, "What was there that I just did not get?" The love story set in the 1960s is about Robert Kincaid, a renowned photographer, and a Francesca Johnson, a farm wife. The story is based on her diaries and the personal effects he had sent to her after he died. She is secluded and alone much of the time. When Robert comes to photograph the bridges, her family is away at the state fair. They are, like Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers who will only remain in each other's hearts and minds for all of their life, though they only shared four days. Her diaries indicate that for about thirty years Francesca maintained the emotional contact she committed to Kincaid by seeing his photography in National Geography, news clippings, and reading the articles written about him. It is easy to be in love for four days. Anyone can. New love is exciting, romance is thrilling, and a new lover's touch is magical. Yes, it will last forever -- if you do not have to wake up to reality. It was simple to see this aspect of the enchantment about their story. Francesca wrote of the agony that she felt when choosing whether to go with Kincaid or stay with her family, her children. This was the crux of her story; stay with her husband and children, or run off with a stranger. I could never understand that, my child is first. Today the book is on my daughter's shelf, and she knows more about the emotions that drove Kincaid and Francesca than I ever will. I am too practical; but she tells me I have never loved as they did -- and she just might be right because I still wonder why this book sold millions. Suspend disbelief and enjoy the romantic interlude. Perhaps I should have seen the movie (I am a Clint Eastwood fan). For me the book was worth three stars, but the millions of people who loved this book and movie cannot all be wrong, so it must be a five. I guess I will give it a four. Victoria Tarrani
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Summary: Timeless love story
Review: I thought love didn't exist...
This book made a believer out of me.
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Summary: A Challenge for Bridges Fans
Review: After completing the epilogue to Bridges, A Thousand Country Roads, I reread Bridges and found the same emotional impact I felt the first time around. Wow! I have missed that. I also took a previous reviewer's challenge and read these novels next to Shade of the Maple, whose cover says it is 'the most intimate novel since The Bridges of Madison County.' I beg to differ. It is more intimate and better than Bridges. Heresy to some, I know, but find out for yourself. Intense descriptions, page-turning drama, a deep understanding of the human heart and an ending that you will never forget. Plus the author is donating $1.00 from every sale to breast cancer research. If half the people who pick up Bridges or its epilogue also pick up Martin's book, we'd raise a lot of money, and I can guarantee a lot of people will have found a new favorite author. In summary, if you liked Bridges, you owe it to yourself to read both Shade of the Maple and A Thousand Country Roads.
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