About this title: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, the highly romantic tale of a roaming photographer and a lonely housewife, was Robert James Waller's first novel. Its sensitive exploration of a four-day encounter between star-crossed lovers touched hearts everywhere, and gallons of tears were shed at the sad ending. By the time its popularity began to ebb, the book ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780446516525ISBN:044651652X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 192 p. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
"This was one of the worst books I've ever read. I saw the movie and thought it was pretty good and figured that the book would be better (because it almost always is!) I was sadly mistaken. I wasn't sure if I was reading an entry in a bad Hemingway imitator's contest...blah. What I learned from this book is...if it's still bad by the time you get to the middle of the book, stop reading."
"If it were possible to rate a book in the negatives, this one would earn a negative 10. Truly one of the most terrible books ever. Maudlin, whiny and ridiculous. A woman whose husband and children are away has a brief affair with a photographer just passing through. Of course, the few days spent with this complete stranger prove that her marriage is a sham and the photographer is her true love...but wifey sacrifices herself in martyrlike fashion and suffers to allow her substandard husband to continue to support her financially while she moons over hidden letters in the closet. I would like to rewrite this book and place it in the stark light of reality, where the neighbors report to her husband that his wife is a whore; when she has to explain to him where she picked up the STD and why there are crabs in their bed; where he throws her out on her ass and she DOES go off with her "true love" only to find that he has a wandering eye and a drinking problem, and often goes off on photographic jaunts where he beds other lonely housewives like herself. Oh, the poetic justice when she finds the crabs in her own bed."
"The best line I ever saw concerning this book is from a reviewer of the Clint Eastwood movie of it, something about how amazing it was that Eastwood could made a silk purse out of such a sow's ear of a book. I thought that pretty much summed it up. The only thing I learned from this book is that there are covered bridges in Madison County, Iowa. I think I could have survived without that knowledge."
"this book was dreadful. a saccharined promotion of the fairy-tale love myth, the cinderella complex. yep, true love exists and it is great, but your life is far from empty without it. the character's life, her real day-to-day existence and participation in this world, halts with the removal of that love and she condemns herself to live in the past. she is all but physically dead.
this is the only book that, upon finishing, i felt totally free to get rid of. not a single part of me ever thought i'd want to hang on to this, to perhaps read it again in ten years, or to ever recommend it to a friend.
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