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Summary: a tearjerker
Review: The book overall is fantastic.It is really short though. Mainly I like how it is different from the rest of the typical love story.It has the uniqueness that unifies it from every other book.Endings are what makes a book good or bad.The ending to this book is what made it disappointing to me.The raising action led to a boring climax.Or in other words a climax happend that you did'nt want to happen,which in a way is sort of good.One of the best parts of the book is the characters.They are sort of deserted from everyone else in the book.Which is weird yet thrilling in a way.It is a love story that suprised me out of my boots.The themes are what makes a book complete.Unfortunately the themes are very foggy in the story.Overall the book was good enough to read again.
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Summary: LUST IS A DISTANT MEMORY; TRUE LOVE LASTS FOREVER!
Review: If you have ever been in love - truly in love, this is a book you cannot miss. It shares all the joy, pain and sorrow that only someone who has been there can understand. So far, I have read this book at least three times over the years, and each time I read it, it touches a part of me it never did before. The movie was equally as good but the wonderful part of a book is that you can envision the characters and the events as you wish. "The Bridges of Madison County" makes us look at our own lives, our own fragile memories of that true and eternal love that happens but once in a life time, and of making choices that will sometimes haunt us forever. This book is not as it seems on the surface, about lust in a heated moment of passion; it goes much deeper to the heart. It reminds us we are all subject to human feelings, and that the choices we make in life will always be a part of us. It reminds us that "our moment in the sun" will live on in our hearts until the end of time.
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Summary: Hmmmmmm?
Review: Please...the dialogue would make soap opera stars blush. Nobody talks that way. Stilted---would be an understatement. And the first 30 pages...snore..snore. Why? Why, do these characters LOVE each other? What's the motivation for their "timeless love?" Better yet, where is the darn story going?
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Summary: Glad I finally decided to read this book
Review: I resisted this book for a very long time. (Same with the movie, and there, my resistance has held out.) Based on what I had heard, this book was nothing but an overwrought piece of mush. ... Yes, this book is mushy, but not the overwrought, saccherine kind of mush it has been portrayed to be. Francesca is lonely and bored and understandably so. She was, after all, an Italian native raised to be a literature teacher, ending up a farmer's wife in a place where her talents go unrecognized (more on this later). Certainly, someone with an artistic and sensitive temperament that Robert Kincaid posesses would be attractive to her, and vice versa. And while adultery is not something to be celebrated or considered a virtue, I think both of them handled the situation as well as they could have, once they went down the path of loving each other. I do think Richard comes out as more of an oaf than he probably deserved, though. (Again, more on this coming up.) Understand, this is not Shakespeare, this is not Charles Dickens, or George Orwell, or even Anne Rice. This is a light read, meant to appeal to your heart, rather than your mind. I didn't give this book a high rating because it's one of the best I've ever read, but rather because the book was good reading, and it achieved its desired result. Fair enough. The one disappointment is the way the citizens of Winterset, Iowa, are portrayed. I think Waller was very unforgiving. I spent most of my childhood in Iowa -- albeit in the relatively urban area of Dubuque -- and my dad was born and raised on farms in southwestern Iowa. Waller is right on the surface. These rural farming communities tend to be populated by people who are more concerned about weather conditions, the state of the crops, what's happening in so-and-so's lives, than they are in deep philosophical meanings of life. So what? These are people whose lives depend on the whims of Nature, who often can barely eke out a credible existence in years when droughts or floods or ill-timed frost ruin months of hard work. And, the fact that the people of Winterset, Iowa -- in fiction or in real life -- don't talk about taking time to consider the beauty of their bridges, the awesome colors of a sunset, or whatever, doesn't mean those thoughts are never in their heads. Farming is a hard life, however rewarding it may be, and it takes a stronger person than I am to do it. Waller should have respected that in his narration.
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Summary: It's true...
Review: I recall when the thought of this story was revolting and the last story I ever wanted to read or view. But then... I was married, away from my spouse for a year and doing well at behaving. Then it happened. I met someone and began a relationship with the type of passion featured in this book. I don't know where it came from, but it struck me like a train. During this time, I watched the movie with her and cried. I don't cry, so this was a powerful story to say the least. Maybe because I was involved in similar situations that were featured. Later I read the book and was pleased to cry again. I read the book again, and cried, again. It is a great novel and I am pleased to know that someone else (the author) was able to understand what I was feeling. With matters of the heart, there is no trying to understand. Stories like this allow us to relish the pleasure we have felt, experience the torture of having something we can't have and wish Francesca would have opened the f*&%ing door to her truck!
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Summary: #1 love story of the year
Review: The boook "The bridges of madison county" was the best love story i have ever read. It is a book that makes you feel like the charachter. You go through almost the same emotions as the charachter,its a good book that i would definatly rcomend it for those people out there who like love stories.
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Summary: My Choice for the Worst Book Ever Written
Review: I'm a woman who is so sentimental I cry at supermarket openings, but everything written in every bad review of this book is true. It is an abomination. "Doonesbury" had a send-up of this book years ago, which was wonderful. As the woman next door said, "I wish I'd seen "Doonesbury" first and saved myself the time."
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Summary: A Wonderful Love Story
Review: A relatively sad story of a woman who gave herself to her husband and two children and whatever was left to a stranger she met and fell in love with in 4 days. It was wonderful how the passion both Francesca and Kinkaid felt blossomed during the short story. Francesca rises above it all and decides to remain with her family, her "responsibilities", although her heart tells her otherwise. Kinkaid, a National Geographic photographer, rekindles her passion for life by answering her unfulfilled life and dreams. A wonderful story although I wish it had been longer so as to savor it longer.
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Summary: Revaluation of Values
Review: I just have to ask: why is it that when a women has a torrid week of elicit aldulterous sex with another man she has found "the one true love of a lifetime," but if a man has a similar escapade, he is a shallow letcherous pig? The premise of this book is simply this: love is a blissful paradise which is at every turn impeded by such vile ecumbrances as committment, honesty, integrity and self-sacrifice. This book is the centerpeice of the vile "Oprah Syndrome" booklist. Intellectual depth is now merely a melange of "getting in touch with one's spirit," new-age psycho-babble and dizzy romantic love. To believe that such a book offers any intellectual substance is to assert with fervent honesty that one can survive a week's trek in the Sahara with only a glass of salt water and a stick of cotton candy.
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Summary: Great
Review: This is a great book I have memorised a lot of the sentences! Only people with a life,those who have lived in little towns or women who have had a very restricted life can really appreciate this. Not the same as the movie!!!
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