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Summary: THE BESTEST LOVE STORY EVER WRITTEN!!!
Review: I love the book, in fact reread it 3 times and it never failed to touch me deeply. I just wonder how readers could give it a 1 to 4 or even 7 book rating when the author incorported lots of deep and meaningful language, colorful comparizons.. i.e. Peregrine. For me it is a "10" ten times over. I specially love the scene where Francesca was in the car with her husband and watching Robert Kincaid drive away....I cried my heart out on that scene. This book will stay with me forever!!!!
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Summary: This book deserves a place in history...
Review: ...because it irrefutably illuminates the decline (if not death) of literacy in our present society. How else can one explain its status as a phenomenal best-seller? In any other time and place in history, a book like this could not have been conceived, let alone written, published, and embraced shamelessly by so many. A book this stupendously shallow, derivative, and just plain bad, could only be born and cherished in a world where reading books has almost become a thing of the past. For those who claim this is the best book they have ever read, the only explanation is that they have not read (or could not understand) any other books. They are like tiny children who have been offered a choice between a rumpled fifty-dollar bill and a shiny nickel. They can appreciate The Bridges Of Madison County only because they have no idea what they are missing.
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Summary: Make the bad man stop!
Review: I very rarely read a book which I feel insults my intelligence. It seems that Waller took some kind of warped demographic poll and wrote down what he thought women would be moved by-cheesy, tragic, doomed romance. There were a few passages I admired, but on the whole, it was awful. As a woman, I felt manipulated, stereotyped, and offended. As a writer, I felt hope that I too might one day be published-after all, Waller was.
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Summary: If you've ever loved the right person at the wrong time...
Review: this is your story. Waller reaches through the heart and into the soul of anyone who has truly loved to the depths of human capacity. This book puts into words the bittersweet wrenching emotion of finding your soulmate and finding your joining impossible. There is depth and understanding here that is incomprehensible to anyone who has never been where Robert and Francesca go. If you've been there, Waller has put into words everything you felt and to this day may not be able to relate to another who doesn't understand.
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Summary: beautiful
Review: All I have to say concerning this book is that I found it completely and utterly beautiful. I am so surprised that an author was talented enough to come up with this fairy tale put it into actual words to share with the rest of us... Thank you.
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Summary: Not exactly Gone With the Wind
Review: I'd give it a six except I've been intimidated by all of the extremely negative reviews. But, let's be honest, the great title alone makes it better than a '1'. Actually, I saw the movie and later read the book. The movie was better; after all it had Streep and Eastwood. I thought it wasn't a bad love story. Many people go through life denying some of their intimate needs.
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Summary: See the movie, skip the book.
Review: The movie captures the magic of falling in love with its quiet moments, yearning music and, above all, Meryl Streep's fabulous performance as Francesca. The book, which I read after seeing the film, was a great disappointment. I agree with most of the negative comments on this page. The fact the story itself has attracted such vehemently opposing views, however, does show that Waller's story has touched a nerve with the public. It shows perhaps that love and hate are two sides of the same coin.
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Summary: Rather silly
Review: Waller is a good essayist but a poor novelist. He has taken the old traveling salesman-farmer's daughter routine and tried to con us into thinking it is a real romance. Why did the woman keep a secret for 25 years and then feel compelled to blab the whole thing to, of all people, her own children? What is glamorous about a four-day roll in the hay with a man she knows she will never see again? If he is such a hotshot photographer, why does he toss his highpriced equipment into the back of a pickup where it will get dusty and unusable, and worse yet stolen? Give me a break.
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Summary: Yuk!
Review: I was an extremely healthy person until I tried to read this book. Now I am diabetic! Just too much syrup for my tastes.
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Summary: divine romance
Review: Dont listen to anyone who mentions the book is bad. They probably did not get the essence of what the author was trying to convey. The rattrap is only of use until the rat is caught, after that it is useless. Similarly words and language are only of use until the meaning or emotions are grasped. After that they too are useless. But unfortunately if one gets stuck at the words, then it is shallow.
Definitely, one of the best books i have read and reread. A slow romance which goes beyond words but touches the depths of the heart. One of the few romantic novels which have made attempts to touch the soul.
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