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噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳
芦賯氐丞 丨亘 丌爻乇丞 賵亘爻賷胤丞貙 鬲賯毓 賮賷 亘賱丿丞 兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 氐睾賷乇丞... 賯氐丞 鬲亘賯賶 賲毓賰 賱兀賲丿賺 胤賵賷賱 亘毓丿 兀賳 鬲購賳賴賷 賯乇丕亍丞 氐賮丨鬲賴丕 丕賱兀禺賷乇丞 賲鬲丨爻乇賸丕 賱賮乇丕賯賴丕禄 - 鬲賷乇丕賳爻 爻鬲丕賲亘
廿匕丕 賰賳鬲 賯丿 噩乇賻賾亘鬲 賵噩賵丿 丨亘 丨賯賷賯賷 賵丨賷丿 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賰 賱賲 賷賳噩丨 賱爻亘亘 賲丕貙 賮爻鬲賮賴賲 鬲兀孬乇 丕賱賯乇賻賾丕亍 賮賷 噩賲賷毓 兀賳丨丕亍 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賱賰丕鬲亘賴丕貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨賵賻賾賱鬲 廿賱賶 馗丕賴乇丞 賲賳 馗賵丕賴乇 毓丕賱賲 丕賱賳卮乇貙 賵乇賯賲 賵丕丨丿 毓賱賶 賯賵丕卅賲 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賲亘賷毓丕鬲.
賯氐丞 芦乇賵亘乇鬲 賰賷賳賰賷丿禄貨 丕賱賲氐賵賽賾乇 丕賱賮賵鬲賵睾乇丕賮賷 賵丕賱乇賵丨 丕賱丨乇賻賾丞貙 丕賱亘丕丨孬 毓賳 丕賱噩爻賵乇 丕賱賲睾胤賻賾丕丞 賮賷 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳貙 賵芦賮乇丕賳卮賷爻賰丕 噩賵賳爻賳禄貨 丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱乇賷賮賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲馗乇 鬲丨賯購賾賯 丨賱賲 乇丕賵丿賴丕 賮賷 氐亘丕賴丕貙 鬲賲賳丨 乇賵丕賷丞 芦噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳禄 氐賵鬲賸丕 賱兀卮賵丕賯 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賵丕賱賳爻丕亍 賮賷 賰賱 賲賰丕賳貙 賵鬲購馗賴乇 賱賳丕 賲毓賳賶 兀賳 賳丨賽亘 賵兀賳 賳丨賻亘 丨亘賸賾丕 毓丕乇賲賸丕貙 亘丨賷孬 賱丕 鬲毓賵丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賰賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 賯亘賱賴 兀亘丿賸丕.
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲亘賷毓賸丕 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳貙 廿匕 鬲購賯丿賻賾乇 賲亘賷毓丕鬲賴丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷丞 亘賳丨賵 60 賲賱賷賵賳 賳爻禺丞. 鬲購乇噩賲鬲 廿賱賶 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 25 賱睾丞貙 賵丕賯鬲購亘爻鬲 賮賷 賮賷賱賲 乇賵丕卅賷 胤賵賷賱 賲賳 廿禺乇丕噩 芦賰賱賷賳鬲 廿賷爻鬲賵賵丿禄 賵賲賳 亘胤賵賱鬲賴 賲毓 芦賲賷乇賷賱 爻鬲乇賷亘禄貙 賵毓購乇囟鬲 賰賲爻乇丨賷丞 賲賵爻賷賯賷丞 孬賲 賰賲爻乇丨賷丞 丿乇丕賲賷丞.
毓賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮
賵購賱賽丿 芦乇賵亘乇鬲 噩賷賲爻 賵丕賱乇禄 毓丕賲 1939 賮賷 乇賵賰賮賵乇丿貙 亘賵賱丕賷丞 兀賷賵丕. 廿賱賶 噩丕賳亘 賰賵賳賴 賰丕鬲亘賸丕 鬲購丨賯賯 賰鬲亘賴 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賲亘賷毓丕鬲 毓丕賱賲賷賸賾丕貙 賮賴賵 賲毓乇賵賮 亘毓賲賱賴 賰賲氐賵乇 賮賵鬲賵睾乇丕賮賷 賵賲賵爻賷賯賷. 卮睾賱 芦賵丕賱乇禄 賲賳氐亘 毓賲賷丿 賰賱賷丞 廿丿丕乇丞 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 賮賷 噩丕賲毓丞 兀賷賵丕 丕賱噩賳賵亘賷丞 丨鬲賶 毓丕賲 1989貙 賵鬲購賵賮賷 毓丕賲 2017.
毓賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲
賲丨賲丿 毓亘丿 丕賱賳亘賷貙 賰丕鬲亘 賵賲鬲乇噩賲 賲氐乇賷貙 賵購賱賽丿 賮賷 賲丨丕賮馗丞 丕賱丿賯賴賱賷丞 毓丕賲 1977貙 賵丨氐賱 毓賱賶 賱賷爻丕賳爻 丕賱賱睾丕鬲 賵丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 (賯爻賲 丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷丞) 賲賳 噩丕賲毓丞 丕賱兀夭賴乇.
賱賴 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮丕鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱賯氐丞 賵丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵丨丕夭 噩丕卅夭丞 爻丕賵賷乇爻 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲乇賻賾丞. 兀丨丿孬 兀毓賲丕賱賴 賲噩賲賵毓丞 芦賰丕賳 賷丕賲丕 賰丕賳禄貙 賵乇賵丕賷丞 芦賮賷 睾乇賮丞 丕賱毓賳賰亘賵鬲禄貨 丕賱鬲賷 賮丕夭鬲 亘噩賵丕卅夭 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賵賵氐賱鬲 廿賱賶 丕賱賯丕卅賲丞 丕賱賯氐賷乇丞 賱噩丕卅夭丞 亘賵賰乇 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 毓丕賲 2017貙 賵賮丕夭鬲 兀賷囟賸丕 鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 亘噩丕卅夭丞 賲毓賴丿 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱毓乇亘賷 賮賷 亘丕乇賷爻 毓丕賲 2019.
鬲乇噩賲 賰孬賷乇賸丕 賲賳 丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賲賴賲丞貙 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賵睾賷乇 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞貙 賲賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷鬲丕賳 賱賴卮丕賲 賲胤乇貙 賵芦鬲賲亘賰鬲賵禄 賱賭芦亘賵賱 兀賵爻鬲乇禄貙 賵芦囟賵亍 丕賱丨乇亘禄 賱賭芦賲丕賷賰賱 兀賵賳丿丕鬲噩賷禄貙 賵賰鬲丕亘 芦賯賱賯 丕賱爻毓賷 廿賱賶 丕賱賲賰丕賳丞禄 賱賭芦丌賱丕賳 丿賵 亘賵鬲賵賳禄. 賵氐丿乇鬲 賱賴 毓賳 丿丕乇 丕賱賰乇賲丞 鬲乇噩賲丞 乇賵丕賷鬲賻賷: 芦賲賱賷賵賳 賳丕賮匕丞禄 賱賭芦噩賷乇丕賱丿 賲乇賳賷賳禄貙 賵芦丕賱賳賵乇爻 噩賵賳丕孬丕賳 賱賷賮賳噩爻鬲賵賳禄 賱賭芦乇賷鬲卮丕乇丿 亘丕禺禄.
廿匕丕 賰賳鬲 賯丿 噩乇賻賾亘鬲 賵噩賵丿 丨亘 丨賯賷賯賷 賵丨賷丿 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賰 賱賲 賷賳噩丨 賱爻亘亘 賲丕貙 賮爻鬲賮賴賲 鬲兀孬乇 丕賱賯乇賻賾丕亍 賮賷 噩賲賷毓 兀賳丨丕亍 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賱賰丕鬲亘賴丕貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨賵賻賾賱鬲 廿賱賶 馗丕賴乇丞 賲賳 馗賵丕賴乇 毓丕賱賲 丕賱賳卮乇貙 賵乇賯賲 賵丕丨丿 毓賱賶 賯賵丕卅賲 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賲亘賷毓丕鬲.
賯氐丞 芦乇賵亘乇鬲 賰賷賳賰賷丿禄貨 丕賱賲氐賵賽賾乇 丕賱賮賵鬲賵睾乇丕賮賷 賵丕賱乇賵丨 丕賱丨乇賻賾丞貙 丕賱亘丕丨孬 毓賳 丕賱噩爻賵乇 丕賱賲睾胤賻賾丕丞 賮賷 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳貙 賵芦賮乇丕賳卮賷爻賰丕 噩賵賳爻賳禄貨 丕賱夭賵噩丞 丕賱乇賷賮賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲馗乇 鬲丨賯購賾賯 丨賱賲 乇丕賵丿賴丕 賮賷 氐亘丕賴丕貙 鬲賲賳丨 乇賵丕賷丞 芦噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳禄 氐賵鬲賸丕 賱兀卮賵丕賯 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賵丕賱賳爻丕亍 賮賷 賰賱 賲賰丕賳貙 賵鬲購馗賴乇 賱賳丕 賲毓賳賶 兀賳 賳丨賽亘 賵兀賳 賳丨賻亘 丨亘賸賾丕 毓丕乇賲賸丕貙 亘丨賷孬 賱丕 鬲毓賵丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賰賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 賯亘賱賴 兀亘丿賸丕.
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲亘賷毓賸丕 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳貙 廿匕 鬲購賯丿賻賾乇 賲亘賷毓丕鬲賴丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷丞 亘賳丨賵 60 賲賱賷賵賳 賳爻禺丞. 鬲購乇噩賲鬲 廿賱賶 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 25 賱睾丞貙 賵丕賯鬲購亘爻鬲 賮賷 賮賷賱賲 乇賵丕卅賷 胤賵賷賱 賲賳 廿禺乇丕噩 芦賰賱賷賳鬲 廿賷爻鬲賵賵丿禄 賵賲賳 亘胤賵賱鬲賴 賲毓 芦賲賷乇賷賱 爻鬲乇賷亘禄貙 賵毓購乇囟鬲 賰賲爻乇丨賷丞 賲賵爻賷賯賷丞 孬賲 賰賲爻乇丨賷丞 丿乇丕賲賷丞.
毓賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮
賵購賱賽丿 芦乇賵亘乇鬲 噩賷賲爻 賵丕賱乇禄 毓丕賲 1939 賮賷 乇賵賰賮賵乇丿貙 亘賵賱丕賷丞 兀賷賵丕. 廿賱賶 噩丕賳亘 賰賵賳賴 賰丕鬲亘賸丕 鬲購丨賯賯 賰鬲亘賴 兀賮囟賱 丕賱賲亘賷毓丕鬲 毓丕賱賲賷賸賾丕貙 賮賴賵 賲毓乇賵賮 亘毓賲賱賴 賰賲氐賵乇 賮賵鬲賵睾乇丕賮賷 賵賲賵爻賷賯賷. 卮睾賱 芦賵丕賱乇禄 賲賳氐亘 毓賲賷丿 賰賱賷丞 廿丿丕乇丞 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 賮賷 噩丕賲毓丞 兀賷賵丕 丕賱噩賳賵亘賷丞 丨鬲賶 毓丕賲 1989貙 賵鬲購賵賮賷 毓丕賲 2017.
毓賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲
賲丨賲丿 毓亘丿 丕賱賳亘賷貙 賰丕鬲亘 賵賲鬲乇噩賲 賲氐乇賷貙 賵購賱賽丿 賮賷 賲丨丕賮馗丞 丕賱丿賯賴賱賷丞 毓丕賲 1977貙 賵丨氐賱 毓賱賶 賱賷爻丕賳爻 丕賱賱睾丕鬲 賵丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 (賯爻賲 丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷丞) 賲賳 噩丕賲毓丞 丕賱兀夭賴乇.
賱賴 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮丕鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱賯氐丞 賵丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵丨丕夭 噩丕卅夭丞 爻丕賵賷乇爻 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲乇賻賾丞. 兀丨丿孬 兀毓賲丕賱賴 賲噩賲賵毓丞 芦賰丕賳 賷丕賲丕 賰丕賳禄貙 賵乇賵丕賷丞 芦賮賷 睾乇賮丞 丕賱毓賳賰亘賵鬲禄貨 丕賱鬲賷 賮丕夭鬲 亘噩賵丕卅夭 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賵賵氐賱鬲 廿賱賶 丕賱賯丕卅賲丞 丕賱賯氐賷乇丞 賱噩丕卅夭丞 亘賵賰乇 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 毓丕賲 2017貙 賵賮丕夭鬲 兀賷囟賸丕 鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 丕賱賮乇賳爻賷丞 亘噩丕卅夭丞 賲毓賴丿 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱毓乇亘賷 賮賷 亘丕乇賷爻 毓丕賲 2019.
鬲乇噩賲 賰孬賷乇賸丕 賲賳 丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賲賴賲丞貙 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賵睾賷乇 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞貙 賲賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷鬲丕賳 賱賴卮丕賲 賲胤乇貙 賵芦鬲賲亘賰鬲賵禄 賱賭芦亘賵賱 兀賵爻鬲乇禄貙 賵芦囟賵亍 丕賱丨乇亘禄 賱賭芦賲丕賷賰賱 兀賵賳丿丕鬲噩賷禄貙 賵賰鬲丕亘 芦賯賱賯 丕賱爻毓賷 廿賱賶 丕賱賲賰丕賳丞禄 賱賭芦丌賱丕賳 丿賵 亘賵鬲賵賳禄. 賵氐丿乇鬲 賱賴 毓賳 丿丕乇 丕賱賰乇賲丞 鬲乇噩賲丞 乇賵丕賷鬲賻賷: 芦賲賱賷賵賳 賳丕賮匕丞禄 賱賭芦噩賷乇丕賱丿 賲乇賳賷賳禄貙 賵芦丕賱賳賵乇爻 噩賵賳丕孬丕賳 賱賷賮賳噩爻鬲賵賳禄 賱賭芦乇賷鬲卮丕乇丿 亘丕禺禄.
264 pages, Paperback
First published April 13, 1992
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Robert James Waller
44听books419听followersRobert James Waller was an American author also known for his work as a photographer and musician. Several of his books have been on the New York Times bestseller list including 1992's The Bridges of Madison County, which was the top best-seller in 1993. Both that novel and his 1995 novel, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, have been made into motion pictures.
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October 12, 2011
You guys have completely lost the plot.
You simply can't say that this is not a good book. It's well written, the story stands its ground and there is that bit of intrinsec poetry which can make a good read into an excellent one.
And remember, it is a book! What is this bigotry of saying that you don't like it because she has an extra marital affair?
The story works and the main doubt the author underlines is for her between leaving her obligations and following her heart, regardless of the adultery sitution, or staying home with her family. Nothing else.
It is a story of true love, that can happen even after one gets married (oh what a wonder!) and that can lead someone's life into turmoil for maybe the only time ever.
The movie was brilliant and the book is no less.
I am simply astonished at some comments. But this makes just my belief of modern times stronger and stronger: people and literature are drifting apart. Go buy some comics instead, if you have to judge a book on such meaningless details.
You simply can't say that this is not a good book. It's well written, the story stands its ground and there is that bit of intrinsec poetry which can make a good read into an excellent one.
And remember, it is a book! What is this bigotry of saying that you don't like it because she has an extra marital affair?
The story works and the main doubt the author underlines is for her between leaving her obligations and following her heart, regardless of the adultery sitution, or staying home with her family. Nothing else.
It is a story of true love, that can happen even after one gets married (oh what a wonder!) and that can lead someone's life into turmoil for maybe the only time ever.
The movie was brilliant and the book is no less.
I am simply astonished at some comments. But this makes just my belief of modern times stronger and stronger: people and literature are drifting apart. Go buy some comics instead, if you have to judge a book on such meaningless details.
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噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳 乇賵丕賷丞 乇賵賲丕賳爻賷丞 亘賯賱賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 乇賵亘乇鬲 噩賲賷爻 賵丕賱乇..丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲毓鬲亘乇 賲賳 兀賰鬲乇 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲亘賷毓丕賸 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳 賵亘賷毓 賲賳賴丕 佴贍 賲賱賷賵賳 賳爻禺丞 丨賵賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 ..賵賰賲丕賳 賱賷賴丕 賮賷賱賲 亘賳賮爻 丕賱廿爻賲 亘胤賵賱丞 賰賱賷賳鬲 廿賷爻鬲賵賵丿 賵 賲賷乇賷賱 爻鬲乇賷亘..
賮賷 兀乇亘毓丞 兀賷丕賲 賮賯胤 毓丕卮鬲 賮乇丕賳卮賷爻賰丕 賲毓 乇賵亘乇鬲 兀噩賲賱 賯氐丞 丨亘 ..賰丕賳鬲 鬲卮毓乇 賲毓賴 廿賳賴丕 丕賲乇兀丞 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 亘賱 兀噩賲賱 丕賲乇兀丞 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 ..
賱賲 鬲鬲賵賯賮 毓賳 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷賴 胤賵賱 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賵賱丕 賱賱丨馗丞 賵丕丨丿丞 ..賰丕賳鬲 鬲卮毓乇 亘賵噩賵丿賴 丿丕卅賲丕賸 丨鬲賷 賵賴賵 賲卮 賲賵噩賵丿 噩賳亘賴丕..
賰丕賳 丿丕賮卅丕賸..噩匕丕亘丕賸..賯賵賷丕賸..賲鬲賮賴賲丕賸 賱馗乇賵賮賴丕 賵賱丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賰賵賳賴丕 夭賵噩丞 賵兀賲 賵鬲毓賷卮 丨賷丕丞 賲爻鬲賯乇丞..
賲賳丨賴丕 賮賷 兀乇亘毓丞 兀賷丕賲 毓賲乇丕賸 賰丕賲賱丕賸 賵丨亘丕賸 噩丕乇賮丕賸 賱丕 賷兀鬲賷 廿賱丕 賲乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賷 丕賱毓賲乇 賵賱丕 賷鬲賰乇乇 兀亘丿丕賸...
"毓賱賲賳賷 賲毓賳賷 兀賳 兀賰賵賳 丕賲乇兀丞 毓賱賷 賳丨賵 賱賳 鬲禺鬲亘乇賴 廿賱丕 丨賮賳丞 賯賱賷賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍貙乇亘賲丕 賱賳 鬲毓賷卮賴 丕賲乇兀丞 兀禺乇賷 毓賱賷 丕賱廿胤賱丕賯.."
廿爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻乇丿 賰丕賳 賲賳 兀毓匕亘 賲丕 賷賰賵賳貙賲賰鬲賵亘 亘亘爻丕胤丞 賵 乇賽賯丞 睾賷乇 毓丕丿賷丞 亘爻 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賷賱賲爻 丕賱賯賱亘 賵丨鬲丨爻 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丨賰丕賷丞 賵賯賱賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 廿賳賰 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 鬲毓乇賮 賷毓賳賷 丕賷賴 丨購亘:)
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲鬲丕夭丞 賵爻賱爻丞 噩丿丕賸 賵 鬲卮噩毓 廿賳賰 鬲禺賱氐 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賮賷 賯毓丿丞 賵丕丨丿丞 亘爻 賳氐賷丨丞 賲賳賷 亘賱丕卮..
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丿丞 毓丕賲賱 夭賷 丕賱丨丕噩丞 丨賱賵丞 丕賱賱賷 亘鬲丿賵亘 賮賷 丕賱亘賯 賵亘鬲賰賵賳 賲卮 毓丕賵夭賴丕 鬲禺賱氐 賮賱丕夭賲 賷賯乇兀 毓賱賷 賲賴賱 賵亘賲夭丕噩 毓卮丕賳 鬲爻鬲賲毓 亘賷賴 賱兀胤賵賱 賵賯鬲 賲賲賰賳..
賵乇丿丞 亘鬲賯賵賱 賮賷 兀睾賳賷鬲賴丕 ..賮賷 賷賵賲 賵賱賷賱丞 禺丿賳丕 丨賱丕賵丞 丕賱丨亘 賰賱賴 賮賷 賷賵賲 賵賱賷賱丞.. 賵 丿丕賷賲丕賸 賱賲丕 兀爻賲毓 丕賱兀睾賳賷丞 兀賯賵賱 亘賷賳賷 賵亘賷賳 賳賮爻賷 賴賵 賷賳賮毓 賷毓賳賷 賷丕 爻鬲 賵乇丿丞 賮賷 賷賵賲 賵賱賷賱丞 賳毓賷卮 賯氐丞 丨亘 毓賲乇賳丕 賲丕 賳賳爻丕賴丕責胤賱毓 兀賴賵..賷賳賮毓..:)
賯氐丞 丨亘 爻賵賮 鬲爻鬲賵賱賷 毓賱賷賰 賵鬲兀爻乇賰 亘爻丨乇賴丕..丕賯乇兀賵賴丕貙乇噩丕亍賸 賵賱賷爻 兀賲乇丕賸 亘賱 丿毓賵丞 賴匕賴 丕賱爻胤賵乇...
賲賳 兀毓匕亘 賵 兀噩賲賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲馃槏
賵兀賳丕 賯賱亘賷 丕賱氐睾賷乇 賱丕 賷丨鬲賲賱 丕賱氐乇丕丨丞鉂わ笍
賲賯鬲賳毓丞 噩丿丕賸 廿賳 賰賱 賵丕丨丿 賮賷賳丕 賮賷 賲賰丕賳 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱丿賳賷丕 丿賷 賷賵噩丿 賳氐賴 丕賱鬲丕賳賷..賲爻鬲賳賷賴..亘賷丿賵乇 毓賱賷賴...亘賷丨賱賲 亘賷賴..
賯賱賷賱賷賳 噩丿丕賸 丕賱賱賷 亘賷賱丕賯賵賴 亘爻 賱賵 賱丕賯賷賳丕賴 丨賳賰賵賳 賲爻鬲毓丿賷賳 賳丨胤 賰賱 毓賲乇賳丕 丕賱賱賷 賮丕鬲 賮賷 賰賮丞 賵丕賱兀賷丕賲 兀賵 丨鬲賷 丕賱爻丕毓丕鬲 丕賱賱賱賷 丨賳毓賷卮賴丕 賲毓丕賴 賮賷 賰賮丞 鬲丕賳賷丞馃槏
噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳 乇賵丕賷丞 乇賵賲丕賳爻賷丞 亘賯賱賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 乇賵亘乇鬲 噩賲賷爻 賵丕賱乇..丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲毓鬲亘乇 賲賳 兀賰鬲乇 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲亘賷毓丕賸 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳 賵亘賷毓 賲賳賴丕 佴贍 賲賱賷賵賳 賳爻禺丞 丨賵賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 ..賵賰賲丕賳 賱賷賴丕 賮賷賱賲 亘賳賮爻 丕賱廿爻賲 亘胤賵賱丞 賰賱賷賳鬲 廿賷爻鬲賵賵丿 賵 賲賷乇賷賱 爻鬲乇賷亘..
賮賷 兀乇亘毓丞 兀賷丕賲 賮賯胤 毓丕卮鬲 賮乇丕賳卮賷爻賰丕 賲毓 乇賵亘乇鬲 兀噩賲賱 賯氐丞 丨亘 ..賰丕賳鬲 鬲卮毓乇 賲毓賴 廿賳賴丕 丕賲乇兀丞 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 亘賱 兀噩賲賱 丕賲乇兀丞 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 ..
賱賲 鬲鬲賵賯賮 毓賳 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷賴 胤賵賱 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賵賱丕 賱賱丨馗丞 賵丕丨丿丞 ..賰丕賳鬲 鬲卮毓乇 亘賵噩賵丿賴 丿丕卅賲丕賸 丨鬲賷 賵賴賵 賲卮 賲賵噩賵丿 噩賳亘賴丕..
賰丕賳 丿丕賮卅丕賸..噩匕丕亘丕賸..賯賵賷丕賸..賲鬲賮賴賲丕賸 賱馗乇賵賮賴丕 賵賱丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賰賵賳賴丕 夭賵噩丞 賵兀賲 賵鬲毓賷卮 丨賷丕丞 賲爻鬲賯乇丞..
賲賳丨賴丕 賮賷 兀乇亘毓丞 兀賷丕賲 毓賲乇丕賸 賰丕賲賱丕賸 賵丨亘丕賸 噩丕乇賮丕賸 賱丕 賷兀鬲賷 廿賱丕 賲乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賷 丕賱毓賲乇 賵賱丕 賷鬲賰乇乇 兀亘丿丕賸...
"毓賱賲賳賷 賲毓賳賷 兀賳 兀賰賵賳 丕賲乇兀丞 毓賱賷 賳丨賵 賱賳 鬲禺鬲亘乇賴 廿賱丕 丨賮賳丞 賯賱賷賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賳爻丕亍貙乇亘賲丕 賱賳 鬲毓賷卮賴 丕賲乇兀丞 兀禺乇賷 毓賱賷 丕賱廿胤賱丕賯.."
廿爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻乇丿 賰丕賳 賲賳 兀毓匕亘 賲丕 賷賰賵賳貙賲賰鬲賵亘 亘亘爻丕胤丞 賵 乇賽賯丞 睾賷乇 毓丕丿賷丞 亘爻 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賷賱賲爻 丕賱賯賱亘 賵丨鬲丨爻 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丨賰丕賷丞 賵賯賱賲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 廿賳賰 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 鬲毓乇賮 賷毓賳賷 丕賷賴 丨購亘:)
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲鬲丕夭丞 賵爻賱爻丞 噩丿丕賸 賵 鬲卮噩毓 廿賳賰 鬲禺賱氐 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賮賷 賯毓丿丞 賵丕丨丿丞 亘爻 賳氐賷丨丞 賲賳賷 亘賱丕卮..
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丿丞 毓丕賲賱 夭賷 丕賱丨丕噩丞 丨賱賵丞 丕賱賱賷 亘鬲丿賵亘 賮賷 丕賱亘賯 賵亘鬲賰賵賳 賲卮 毓丕賵夭賴丕 鬲禺賱氐 賮賱丕夭賲 賷賯乇兀 毓賱賷 賲賴賱 賵亘賲夭丕噩 毓卮丕賳 鬲爻鬲賲毓 亘賷賴 賱兀胤賵賱 賵賯鬲 賲賲賰賳..
賵乇丿丞 亘鬲賯賵賱 賮賷 兀睾賳賷鬲賴丕 ..賮賷 賷賵賲 賵賱賷賱丞 禺丿賳丕 丨賱丕賵丞 丕賱丨亘 賰賱賴 賮賷 賷賵賲 賵賱賷賱丞.. 賵 丿丕賷賲丕賸 賱賲丕 兀爻賲毓 丕賱兀睾賳賷丞 兀賯賵賱 亘賷賳賷 賵亘賷賳 賳賮爻賷 賴賵 賷賳賮毓 賷毓賳賷 賷丕 爻鬲 賵乇丿丞 賮賷 賷賵賲 賵賱賷賱丞 賳毓賷卮 賯氐丞 丨亘 毓賲乇賳丕 賲丕 賳賳爻丕賴丕責胤賱毓 兀賴賵..賷賳賮毓..:)
賯氐丞 丨亘 爻賵賮 鬲爻鬲賵賱賷 毓賱賷賰 賵鬲兀爻乇賰 亘爻丨乇賴丕..丕賯乇兀賵賴丕貙乇噩丕亍賸 賵賱賷爻 兀賲乇丕賸 亘賱 丿毓賵丞 賴匕賴 丕賱爻胤賵乇...
賲賳 兀毓匕亘 賵 兀噩賲賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲馃槏
November 24, 2007
Recipe for Bridges of Madison County Firestarters
1. melt 20 oz. parafin in 4 1/2 quart slow cooker set on low--should take about 20 minutes.
2. set several sheets of newspaper on kitchen floor next to slow cooker.
3. Tear pages out of binding--I find about seven at a time works best. Discard binding.
4. Crumple each page individually--you can do it two or three at a time, but recipe will go farther if you take the time to crumple each page individually.
5. With tongs, dip each crumpled page into the parafin. Hold for 20 to 30 seconds. Remove.
6. Carefully set dipped,crumpled pages on newspaper to dry.
7. Continue steps 4 and 5 until all pages have been dipped.
8. If preferred, repeat steps 4 and 5 to get a thicker coat of parafin on each page.
9. VERY IMPORTANT: Carefully dispose of left over parafin in an empty coffee can and unplug slow cooker.
NOTE: the next few meals you make in your slow cooker might not taste very good.
9. Once all pages have been coated, place them together in attractive baskets next to your fireplace.
10. Each time you use your fireplace, place a few crumpled pages of The Bridges of Madison County on your logs, ignite with flame source and enjoy watching them burn!
1. melt 20 oz. parafin in 4 1/2 quart slow cooker set on low--should take about 20 minutes.
2. set several sheets of newspaper on kitchen floor next to slow cooker.
3. Tear pages out of binding--I find about seven at a time works best. Discard binding.
4. Crumple each page individually--you can do it two or three at a time, but recipe will go farther if you take the time to crumple each page individually.
5. With tongs, dip each crumpled page into the parafin. Hold for 20 to 30 seconds. Remove.
6. Carefully set dipped,crumpled pages on newspaper to dry.
7. Continue steps 4 and 5 until all pages have been dipped.
8. If preferred, repeat steps 4 and 5 to get a thicker coat of parafin on each page.
9. VERY IMPORTANT: Carefully dispose of left over parafin in an empty coffee can and unplug slow cooker.
NOTE: the next few meals you make in your slow cooker might not taste very good.
9. Once all pages have been coated, place them together in attractive baskets next to your fireplace.
10. Each time you use your fireplace, place a few crumpled pages of The Bridges of Madison County on your logs, ignite with flame source and enjoy watching them burn!
December 18, 2021
Love in Black and White = The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling romance novella by American writer Robert James Waller. That tells the story of a married but lonely Italian-American woman (war bride) living on a 1960's Madison County, Iowa, farm.
While her husband and children are away at the State Fair, she engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area.
The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fictional. The novel is one of the bestselling books of the 20th century, with 60 million copies sold worldwide. It has also been adapted into a feature film in 1995 and a musical in 2013.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦倬賱 賴丕蹖 賲丿蹖爻賵賳 讴丕賳鬲蹖禄貨 芦賮乇噩丕賲 蹖讴 毓卮賯 (倬賱鈥屬囏й� 賲賳胤賯賴 賲丕丿蹖爻賵賳)禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 乇丕亘乇鬲 噩蹖賲夭 賵丕賱乇貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲蹖賴丕: (爻讴賴貙 爻賵诏賳丿貙 賴賲乇丕賴貙 丌卮賳丕蹖蹖貙 丕賮乇丕夭)貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 賳賵夭丿賴賲 賲丕賴 爻倬鬲丕賲亘乇 爻丕賱1994賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling romance novella by American writer Robert James Waller. That tells the story of a married but lonely Italian-American woman (war bride) living on a 1960's Madison County, Iowa, farm.
While her husband and children are away at the State Fair, she engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area.
The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fictional. The novel is one of the bestselling books of the 20th century, with 60 million copies sold worldwide. It has also been adapted into a feature film in 1995 and a musical in 2013.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 01/12/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 26/09/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
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December 29, 2007The Book, cough, cough: Called a novel, it's more a novella, barely over 170 pages--the better to save money on printing costs--set in large type on small pages. Set between a frame story (utterly forgettable) employed to give the reader a sense of being privy to a real event, voyeurism at it's best--one of my acquaintances actually tried to find the characters from the novel in the real world using the Internet, convinced Waller could never have made the story up. She was half right: Waller didn't make up the story, he just changed the details in a story old as time (how old is time, anyway?), like changing the colors in a paint by number.
The Oh-So Complicated Plot: First, if you're going to read this book, don't. Second, if you aren't going to listen to me, skip this part and read on to find out more about why you shouldn't read this book. Francesca is a bored housewife married to Richard (forget him--Waller does) who has an affair with a new and exciting photographer (How do we know? He carries a Nikon and snaps pictures) called Robert Kincaid. Note: not Robert, but Robert Kincaid, like James, James Bond; for the slow reader, two names means he's different. The two adulterers fall in love. But then instead of going off with the exciting man, Frannie, as her unexciting husband calls her, decides to stay because of her "responsibilities." Later she regrets it and finds out Robert never loves again. Why? Because it's more romantic that the knight goes off and dies of unrequited love than settles down with the damsel and becomes the unexciting husband of everyday life.
Fiction Writing 101: I found this book good for only one thing: as an excellent primer for those who want to become writers themselves. Just look at these valuable lessons I learned.
1. Characterization-Uh, I got this character who I want to be different. Hmm, well I gave him two names and I made him a photographer (by making him carry a Nikon and snap some pictures). I guess I should describe him in some different way, too. What about calling him a "dead-end branch of evolution." Now, that's description. I'll just repeat that one phrase over and over and over. Wait maybe I'll throw in something really original like the "last cowboy." Oh man, that's hot stuff.
2. How to simplify a morally ambiguous issue: Excuse what your character does and have the other characters accept it; that way your reader doesn't have to do any thinking and doesn't get confused over how they should feel about the character. Francesca to her children on her affair: "If you love me, then you must love what I have done." Mom, I killed my brother but if you love me, then you must love what I have done. Waller told me so.
3. Theme-Make astonishing philosophical statements by asserting bland generalizations about the sexes: "In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time. Women saw no contradiction in that. Men did." Now, that's brilliant, what in-depth analysis of the complex way women and men view each other.
The Oh-So Complicated Plot: First, if you're going to read this book, don't. Second, if you aren't going to listen to me, skip this part and read on to find out more about why you shouldn't read this book. Francesca is a bored housewife married to Richard (forget him--Waller does) who has an affair with a new and exciting photographer (How do we know? He carries a Nikon and snaps pictures) called Robert Kincaid. Note: not Robert, but Robert Kincaid, like James, James Bond; for the slow reader, two names means he's different. The two adulterers fall in love. But then instead of going off with the exciting man, Frannie, as her unexciting husband calls her, decides to stay because of her "responsibilities." Later she regrets it and finds out Robert never loves again. Why? Because it's more romantic that the knight goes off and dies of unrequited love than settles down with the damsel and becomes the unexciting husband of everyday life.
Fiction Writing 101: I found this book good for only one thing: as an excellent primer for those who want to become writers themselves. Just look at these valuable lessons I learned.
1. Characterization-Uh, I got this character who I want to be different. Hmm, well I gave him two names and I made him a photographer (by making him carry a Nikon and snap some pictures). I guess I should describe him in some different way, too. What about calling him a "dead-end branch of evolution." Now, that's description. I'll just repeat that one phrase over and over and over. Wait maybe I'll throw in something really original like the "last cowboy." Oh man, that's hot stuff.
2. How to simplify a morally ambiguous issue: Excuse what your character does and have the other characters accept it; that way your reader doesn't have to do any thinking and doesn't get confused over how they should feel about the character. Francesca to her children on her affair: "If you love me, then you must love what I have done." Mom, I killed my brother but if you love me, then you must love what I have done. Waller told me so.
3. Theme-Make astonishing philosophical statements by asserting bland generalizations about the sexes: "In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time. Women saw no contradiction in that. Men did." Now, that's brilliant, what in-depth analysis of the complex way women and men view each other.
February 9, 2008
Sometimes I wish that negative stars were allowed...this book deserves the Anti-Star. I wanted to read this book because everyone I knew had read it and love it and wept over it. "The greatest love story of all time." blah blah blah.
~~Spoiler Alert~~
I have a serious pet peeve. A love story does NOT involve adultery. (Period!with a capital P) I have also started to question anyone who thinks that a "great" love story can only happen if you cheat on your spouse, or steal another persons spouse or any combination of the above.
And it is further insulting that the adulteress kids are intrigued that their mother had a relationship with someone OTHER than their father and thinks it would be FUN or interesting to discover more about it.
I just don't understand it.
~~Spoiler Alert~~
I have a serious pet peeve. A love story does NOT involve adultery. (Period!with a capital P) I have also started to question anyone who thinks that a "great" love story can only happen if you cheat on your spouse, or steal another persons spouse or any combination of the above.
And it is further insulting that the adulteress kids are intrigued that their mother had a relationship with someone OTHER than their father and thinks it would be FUN or interesting to discover more about it.
I just don't understand it.
October 11, 2019
There is no way you can convince me that Robert Kincaid is not a serial killer.
December 16, 2019
I read this book when it came out along with millions of other folks. The set up and motivation for the story was done quickly and economically and even though there was an affair involved we accepted the motivation as to why. Which is tough to do. The book is about romance, and love and relationships. If I had to sum up the book in one word I think it would be, 'tender.' For a long time I though the book too short (probably because I liked it so much) but after contemplation I realized it was probably just the right length.
David Putnam author of The Bruno Johnson series.
David Putnam author of The Bruno Johnson series.
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February 29, 2012This was a bestseller for 2 years when I first became a bookseller.
It is no coincidence that I started to hate most people with a deep and abiding passion around that time as well. Robert James Waller writes sex scenes that are so moronic you wonder if he's ever had it himself.
Bottom Line: I've read more romantic things on Craigslist.
It is no coincidence that I started to hate most people with a deep and abiding passion around that time as well. Robert James Waller writes sex scenes that are so moronic you wonder if he's ever had it himself.
Bottom Line: I've read more romantic things on Craigslist.
March 19, 2023
Love, loss, and sacrifice
Sacrificing something for love is one thing.
Sacrificing love itself is quite another.
Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?
The book suggests it is, for both Francesca and Robert, but I can鈥檛 agree.
In my mid teens, I planned to change my name to Francesca when I turned 18. Despite my ambivalence about this story, part of me still wants to be Francesca, taking a different path.
Image: A heart in fractured concrete ()
Layers of truth and fiction
For years, I vaguely knew of the starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood but thought it was about Mr and Mrs Bridges of Madison County. By the time I read this, I knew it was about actual bridges, and that it was a love story, but little else.
鈥�There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.鈥�
The 1965 meeting of farmer鈥檚 wife, Francesca Johnson, and National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid, is framed as a true story, discovered by her adult children, when they find journals, mementos, letters, and a photo after her death in 1989. They ask the author to write this book. It鈥檚 a valid literary device that鈥檚 as fictitious as Francesa and Kincaid.
They share quotes from a real poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats, . New fictions are also included: an odd and ethereal piece, Falling from Dimension Z, in which Kincaid explores his feelings for Francesa, as well as an interview with a jazz musician who befriended Kincaid in his final years. All part of the (meta)fiction blend.
However, Robert James Waller, the actual author, was a keen photographer and musician, like his fictional Robert. He wrote The Madison County Waltz about this story. You can watch him performing it on the Roseman Bridge, , where he even looks like Kincaid.
Waller had previously written a song about the dreams of a woman called Francesca. Sometime later, he was photographing bridges, and put the two together. He said he wrote the book in eleven days.
Madison County really is known for its covered bridges. Those named in the book are real: see . The covers were made of cheap timber, supposedly to protect the more expensive flooring - yet some of them are only partly covered. I think they鈥檙e all rather ugly, and too visually intrusive for a rural landscape.
Image: Roseman Bridge, Madison County ()
Only 2* from me
I went through a range of emotions and responses reading this:
鈥� Compositionally, it鈥檚 uneven (the main story is okay and has a framing story, but the various bits appended don鈥檛 really fit, and the chapter titles are strange).
鈥� There are minor surprises beneath a broadly predictable plot arc.
鈥� At times, it鈥檚 tender and subtle. Quiet tension is done well. Sometimes.
鈥� The dialogue is plausible when it鈥檚 minimal, but not when it鈥檚 overly introspective and analytical.
鈥� Several times, especially towards the end, I was moved, but simultaneously felt manipulated by the author's overwriting and purple prose. Perhaps I鈥檓 just not used to romance novels:
鈥�She had become a woman again鈥� turning for home toward a place she鈥檇 never been.鈥�
鈥� I don鈥檛 get why a photographer, albeit a 鈥�shamanlike鈥� free spirit, sees himself as 鈥�one of the last cowboys鈥�, devoted to 鈥�the old ways鈥�, let alone why it was such a big deal.
鈥� I don鈥檛 believe the timeframe (lifelong love within hours, and a total of only four days together), but maybe that鈥檚 a failure of my imagination and experience.
鈥� I don鈥檛 want to believe a mother would write in such detail in a letter to her children: poor things!
鈥� Talking about sex with quasi-spiritual fluff and animal metaphors that went beyond the hot, into the odd, didn鈥檛 work for me: I was alternately baffled, amused, and mildly repulsed. See quotes, below.
Quotes
鈥� 鈥淗e began to see that light was what he photographed, not objects.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hough neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty humming blithely beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淟ike some animal courting rite in an old zoology text鈥� licking her as some fine leopard might do in the long grass out in the veld鈥� It was far beyond the physical鈥� It was spiritual, but it wasn鈥檛 trite鈥� It was almost as if he had taken possession of her, in all of her dimensions.鈥� [Ummm and ugh]
鈥� 鈥淭he leopard swept over her, again and again and yet again, like a long prairie wind, and rolling beneath him, she rode on that wind like some temple virgin toward the sweet, compliant fires marking the soft curve of oblivion.鈥� [LOL: how do you ride beneath, and what鈥檚 a compliant fire?!]
鈥� 鈥淚 am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.鈥� [Huh?]
Image: Peregrine falcon, in bronze, by G茅 Pellini ()
Sacrificing something for love is one thing.
Sacrificing love itself is quite another.
Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?
The book suggests it is, for both Francesca and Robert, but I can鈥檛 agree.
In my mid teens, I planned to change my name to Francesca when I turned 18. Despite my ambivalence about this story, part of me still wants to be Francesca, taking a different path.
Image: A heart in fractured concrete ()
Layers of truth and fiction
For years, I vaguely knew of the starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood but thought it was about Mr and Mrs Bridges of Madison County. By the time I read this, I knew it was about actual bridges, and that it was a love story, but little else.
鈥�There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.鈥�
The 1965 meeting of farmer鈥檚 wife, Francesca Johnson, and National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid, is framed as a true story, discovered by her adult children, when they find journals, mementos, letters, and a photo after her death in 1989. They ask the author to write this book. It鈥檚 a valid literary device that鈥檚 as fictitious as Francesa and Kincaid.
They share quotes from a real poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats, . New fictions are also included: an odd and ethereal piece, Falling from Dimension Z, in which Kincaid explores his feelings for Francesa, as well as an interview with a jazz musician who befriended Kincaid in his final years. All part of the (meta)fiction blend.
However, Robert James Waller, the actual author, was a keen photographer and musician, like his fictional Robert. He wrote The Madison County Waltz about this story. You can watch him performing it on the Roseman Bridge, , where he even looks like Kincaid.
Waller had previously written a song about the dreams of a woman called Francesca. Sometime later, he was photographing bridges, and put the two together. He said he wrote the book in eleven days.
Madison County really is known for its covered bridges. Those named in the book are real: see . The covers were made of cheap timber, supposedly to protect the more expensive flooring - yet some of them are only partly covered. I think they鈥檙e all rather ugly, and too visually intrusive for a rural landscape.
Image: Roseman Bridge, Madison County ()
Only 2* from me
I went through a range of emotions and responses reading this:
鈥� Compositionally, it鈥檚 uneven (the main story is okay and has a framing story, but the various bits appended don鈥檛 really fit, and the chapter titles are strange).
鈥� There are minor surprises beneath a broadly predictable plot arc.
鈥� At times, it鈥檚 tender and subtle. Quiet tension is done well. Sometimes.
鈥� The dialogue is plausible when it鈥檚 minimal, but not when it鈥檚 overly introspective and analytical.
鈥� Several times, especially towards the end, I was moved, but simultaneously felt manipulated by the author's overwriting and purple prose. Perhaps I鈥檓 just not used to romance novels:
鈥�She had become a woman again鈥� turning for home toward a place she鈥檇 never been.鈥�
鈥� I don鈥檛 get why a photographer, albeit a 鈥�shamanlike鈥� free spirit, sees himself as 鈥�one of the last cowboys鈥�, devoted to 鈥�the old ways鈥�, let alone why it was such a big deal.
鈥� I don鈥檛 believe the timeframe (lifelong love within hours, and a total of only four days together), but maybe that鈥檚 a failure of my imagination and experience.
鈥� I don鈥檛 want to believe a mother would write in such detail in a letter to her children: poor things!
鈥� Talking about sex with quasi-spiritual fluff and animal metaphors that went beyond the hot, into the odd, didn鈥檛 work for me: I was alternately baffled, amused, and mildly repulsed. See quotes, below.
Quotes
鈥� 鈥淗e began to see that light was what he photographed, not objects.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hough neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty humming blithely beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淟ike some animal courting rite in an old zoology text鈥� licking her as some fine leopard might do in the long grass out in the veld鈥� It was far beyond the physical鈥� It was spiritual, but it wasn鈥檛 trite鈥� It was almost as if he had taken possession of her, in all of her dimensions.鈥� [Ummm and ugh]
鈥� 鈥淭he leopard swept over her, again and again and yet again, like a long prairie wind, and rolling beneath him, she rode on that wind like some temple virgin toward the sweet, compliant fires marking the soft curve of oblivion.鈥� [LOL: how do you ride beneath, and what鈥檚 a compliant fire?!]
鈥� 鈥淚 am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.鈥� [Huh?]
Image: Peregrine falcon, in bronze, by G茅 Pellini ()
July 8, 2008
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.
March 22, 2025
It is a beautiful love story, four days between parentheses in the life of Robert and Francesca, a tale of responsibilities, renunciation, family, and self-sacrifice. Novel read in one go. That was an excellent, relaxing read.
I also thank the person who offered me this book, as I no longer remember who it was. I am grateful because this work opened new horizons for me.
I also thank the person who offered me this book, as I no longer remember who it was. I am grateful because this work opened new horizons for me.
May 9, 2020
I wonder what Waller, the 8 year old doofus responsible for "The Bridges of Madison County" is like in real life. Like, is he for instance the dashing "last cowboy" he so "romanticizes"? Or more like the tepid housewife who looks at the nothingness that is Iowa (oh forgotten state! what did you ever do to deserve this?) and nods in approval. Did he grin in a stupid daze with his mouth full of Oreos... all the way teeheehee to the bank? All I know is that this belongs in the same category as (The Granddaddy of S*** novelists) Nicholas Sparks. Yikes. "Literature" doesn't come in a worse package than this. No doubt a best-seller, it was the garbage that the people yearning to learn how to make out sentences read once upon a time. Ouch.
This is a genuine insult to American (& non-!) readers.
This is a genuine insult to American (& non-!) readers.
April 22, 2015
It was absolutely wonderful. I started it like an hour ago, and I already savored its 170 pages. Crying, the last fifty or so. It's similar to Night of Rodanthe, but its better, sweeter, shorter and sadder.
I want a love like this, but one that can happen. Not one tainted with already present responsibilities. Ie: I am NOT supporting adultery, I banish the thought. She should have divorced and moved on-- be brave if true love finds you.
It ended as happily as a novel like this could.
Its also made me mildly interested in photography. Funny how that works.
AFTERTHOUGHTS:
I just read some of the comments about this book from others... They're all so negative and hateful I can only laugh. I feel bad for the people that didn't enjoy this book. They obviously couldn't open up to how wonderful the novel could be for them.
Don't close your mind off to it, try it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. But maybe you will.
I want a love like this, but one that can happen. Not one tainted with already present responsibilities. Ie: I am NOT supporting adultery, I banish the thought. She should have divorced and moved on-- be brave if true love finds you.
It ended as happily as a novel like this could.
Its also made me mildly interested in photography. Funny how that works.
AFTERTHOUGHTS:
I just read some of the comments about this book from others... They're all so negative and hateful I can only laugh. I feel bad for the people that didn't enjoy this book. They obviously couldn't open up to how wonderful the novel could be for them.
Don't close your mind off to it, try it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. But maybe you will.
December 24, 2020
"One man.One Woman.The sultry heat of an Iowa summer.And the brief encounter whose all-encompassing passion will last a lifetime."
Robert Kincaid is a National Geographic photographer and Francesca is a housewife,in a small town in Iowa.They meet briefly,fall in love,but can't stay together as she is already married.
According to the author,this book is based on a true story.An Iowan man came to see him and wanted him to write the story,after his mother had died.
Waller did a good job of it.It was a massive bestseller in 1992 and then became a movie.
The negative reviews notwithstanding,I liked it a lot.It is very well-written with lyrical prose.
Clint Eastwood adapted it as a movie,starring Meryl Streep and himself.Both gave terrific performances.
I watched the movie first,it was very good.I like Eastwood and Streep,both are favourites of mine.Later,I read the book,and even though I knew the story,the book was still very enjoyable.
Robert Kincaid is a National Geographic photographer and Francesca is a housewife,in a small town in Iowa.They meet briefly,fall in love,but can't stay together as she is already married.
According to the author,this book is based on a true story.An Iowan man came to see him and wanted him to write the story,after his mother had died.
Waller did a good job of it.It was a massive bestseller in 1992 and then became a movie.
The negative reviews notwithstanding,I liked it a lot.It is very well-written with lyrical prose.
Clint Eastwood adapted it as a movie,starring Meryl Streep and himself.Both gave terrific performances.
I watched the movie first,it was very good.I like Eastwood and Streep,both are favourites of mine.Later,I read the book,and even though I knew the story,the book was still very enjoyable.
July 24, 2007
The literary version of Thomas Kinkade.
July 23, 2013
This book was laughable. Francesca is a housewife living in Iowa where no one--not her children, her husband or her neighbors--see her for the beautiful, fascinating worldly woman she is. Until that fateful day when Robert Kinkaid, a handsome, fascinating worldly man shows up on her doorstep asking for directions. And talk about great timing! Her husband and teen-aged children just happen to be out of town for the next four days. How convenient.
Francesca and Robert have four crazy, wonderful days together, falling madly, deeply, irrevocably in love. (for some reason I feel compelled to use lots and lots of superfluous adverbs when describing this book) He asks her to run away with him. Though it breaks her heart and his, Francesca declines. And everyone cries.
Obviously, Waller is pandering to the dowdy housewives among us who yearn to have a handsome, worldly man who sees us for the fascinating women we believe ourselves to be. It's a fantasy. Waller ignores the fact that every man (even the jerkiest of jerks) can be wonderful for the first four days.
From beginning to end, this book set my teeth on edge.
Francesca and Robert have four crazy, wonderful days together, falling madly, deeply, irrevocably in love. (for some reason I feel compelled to use lots and lots of superfluous adverbs when describing this book) He asks her to run away with him. Though it breaks her heart and his, Francesca declines. And everyone cries.
Obviously, Waller is pandering to the dowdy housewives among us who yearn to have a handsome, worldly man who sees us for the fascinating women we believe ourselves to be. It's a fantasy. Waller ignores the fact that every man (even the jerkiest of jerks) can be wonderful for the first four days.
From beginning to end, this book set my teeth on edge.
October 31, 2007
This book was absolutely beautiful.
I read it over the summer because I had just taken a photography class and I was interested in a lot of related stuff. I found the book on my mom's bookshelf and picked it up mainly because of the fact that the man is a photographer.
I read that book in a day, I couldn't put it down. It was probably one of the greatest works I have ever read and possibly will ever read.
I would recommend The Bridges of Madison County to anybody who wanted to read a good literature... well, anybody over the age of about 14 or so.
I read it over the summer because I had just taken a photography class and I was interested in a lot of related stuff. I found the book on my mom's bookshelf and picked it up mainly because of the fact that the man is a photographer.
I read that book in a day, I couldn't put it down. It was probably one of the greatest works I have ever read and possibly will ever read.
I would recommend The Bridges of Madison County to anybody who wanted to read a good literature... well, anybody over the age of about 14 or so.
March 11, 2017
Oh, por Dios! 驴C贸mo puede ser que haya tardado tanto tiempo en leer este libro? 驴C贸mo puede ser que hasta hace dos d铆as, no se haya decidido a entrar en mi vida? Por Dios, qu茅 historia tan bonita; tan m谩gica, tan llena de sentimientos...
November 20, 2023
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July 14, 2022
鈥淚n a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.鈥�
October 15, 2010
In 1993, this novel topped the Bestselling Novels List in the US. Why? Check the others in the lists around that time. They were novels by Stephen King, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Daniel Steele and Robert Ludlum. It reminded me when in 2001, the soulful operatic voice of John Groban made his first waves in the music industry. The market was then dominated by the likes of Limkin Park, Eminem, Avril Lavigne, Nelly and Shakira. On that same year the simple, acoustic yet heartfelt song Pagdating ng Panahon by Aiza Seguerra topped the Best-Selling Albums list in the local music industry leaving by miles the likes of belter Regine Velasquez and the local bands Parokya ni Edgar and Eraserheads.
The Bridges of Madison County is a sensitive simple tragic love story. Yet it is not overbearing, cheesy nor mushy. It is a story of Francesca/Frannie, a lonely (but not sex-starved) housewife who did not think that at the age of 45, in just 4 short days, she would find her one true love. The man, Robert Kinkaid, a 52-y/o divorced travelling photographer also felt the same for her. What happened on those 4 days: each moment, each sight, each word, each action, each kiss, each time their bodies touched... they carried with them as treasured secret memories for 22 years living their own separate lives
The narration is simple, poetic yet effective and incandescent. Each sentence is carefully worded and you cannot help notice some symbolisms. By design, Waller knew what he wanted: a simple yet heartfelt love story maybe to differentiate his work from the horrors of Stephen King, courtroom dramas of John Grisham or the espionage adventures of Robert Ludlum. One can likened The Bridges of Madison County to the description of the tune Robert's friend composed for him after Robert told him Francesca's story: I wanted to keep it simple, elegant. Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.
Like my favorite novel at all times, Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Sometimes, we don't need a complicated story to be happy with what we read. Sometimes, a simple yet sensible heartwarming story is what we need to cuddle ourselves in bed on a cold October night.
The Bridges of Madison County is a sensitive simple tragic love story. Yet it is not overbearing, cheesy nor mushy. It is a story of Francesca/Frannie, a lonely (but not sex-starved) housewife who did not think that at the age of 45, in just 4 short days, she would find her one true love. The man, Robert Kinkaid, a 52-y/o divorced travelling photographer also felt the same for her. What happened on those 4 days: each moment, each sight, each word, each action, each kiss, each time their bodies touched... they carried with them as treasured secret memories for 22 years living their own separate lives
The narration is simple, poetic yet effective and incandescent. Each sentence is carefully worded and you cannot help notice some symbolisms. By design, Waller knew what he wanted: a simple yet heartfelt love story maybe to differentiate his work from the horrors of Stephen King, courtroom dramas of John Grisham or the espionage adventures of Robert Ludlum. One can likened The Bridges of Madison County to the description of the tune Robert's friend composed for him after Robert told him Francesca's story: I wanted to keep it simple, elegant. Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.
Like my favorite novel at all times, Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Sometimes, we don't need a complicated story to be happy with what we read. Sometimes, a simple yet sensible heartwarming story is what we need to cuddle ourselves in bed on a cold October night.
February 24, 2009
I'm embarrassed to have read this maudlin piece of shit.
February 6, 2014
"It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty humming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward each other."
This book. Oh my God, this book.
I just finished it earlier this morning and I have a feeling that it is going to be one of those books that stays with me for the rest of my life.
Francesca Johnson is a farmer's wife living in Madison County. She is at peace with her life, but she is unhappy. She is a passionate woman, with hopes and dreams that are as untamed as the wildest windstorm. When freelance photographer Robert Kincaid stops at her doorstep seeking directions to the various covered bridges in the area they find themselves caught up in a love affair that knows no boundaries.
"This is why I'm here on this planet, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in times, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you."
I cannot even begin to describe how much I adored this book. It was literally the perfect blend of forbidden romance, myseterious beauty, and poignant sadness. It has a surprisingly low rating here on goodreads and after finishing it I think I understand why. The main character Francesca is having a love affair outside of her marriage. The book is primarily focused on that, and this is the issue that I feel many people cannot understand. Look, don't get me wrong. I am not condoning infidelity. But what I am condoning is that pure rush of love. Have you ever felt that? That moment where you life changes and you heart feels as if it might soar right out of your chest? That realization that you absolutely have to be with that other person and consequences be dammed? I know I have. It's a terrifying feeling yet wonderful all at the same time. And this book really and truly shows just how deep and how strong love can be.
"Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away."
So I fell head over heels in love with this story and its characters. I really wish it had been longer because I never wanted it to end! The writing was as lyrical and beautiful as the story itself was. Don't read this book if you have strong strong opinions about extramarital affairs. Don't read this book if you are cynical, biased, or jaded about love. But DO read this book if you have an open heart. Do read this book if you believe that the force of love can change your life in an instant. It is a remarkable book!
"In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live."
This book. Oh my God, this book.
I just finished it earlier this morning and I have a feeling that it is going to be one of those books that stays with me for the rest of my life.
Francesca Johnson is a farmer's wife living in Madison County. She is at peace with her life, but she is unhappy. She is a passionate woman, with hopes and dreams that are as untamed as the wildest windstorm. When freelance photographer Robert Kincaid stops at her doorstep seeking directions to the various covered bridges in the area they find themselves caught up in a love affair that knows no boundaries.
"This is why I'm here on this planet, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in times, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you."
I cannot even begin to describe how much I adored this book. It was literally the perfect blend of forbidden romance, myseterious beauty, and poignant sadness. It has a surprisingly low rating here on goodreads and after finishing it I think I understand why. The main character Francesca is having a love affair outside of her marriage. The book is primarily focused on that, and this is the issue that I feel many people cannot understand. Look, don't get me wrong. I am not condoning infidelity. But what I am condoning is that pure rush of love. Have you ever felt that? That moment where you life changes and you heart feels as if it might soar right out of your chest? That realization that you absolutely have to be with that other person and consequences be dammed? I know I have. It's a terrifying feeling yet wonderful all at the same time. And this book really and truly shows just how deep and how strong love can be.
"Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away."
So I fell head over heels in love with this story and its characters. I really wish it had been longer because I never wanted it to end! The writing was as lyrical and beautiful as the story itself was. Don't read this book if you have strong strong opinions about extramarital affairs. Don't read this book if you are cynical, biased, or jaded about love. But DO read this book if you have an open heart. Do read this book if you believe that the force of love can change your life in an instant. It is a remarkable book!
"In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live."
November 1, 2022
賴賱 賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱丨亘 丨賯丕賸 責 馃槒
丕賱賲氐賵乇 丕賱賮賵鬲賵睾乇丕賮賷 丕賱乇丨賻賾丕賱 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 賰賷賳賰賷丿 " 亘賷賳賲丕 賰丕賳 賮賷 賲賴賲丞 賱 " 賳丕卮賷賵賳丕賱 噩賷賵睾乇丕賮賰 " 亘丕丨孬丕賸 毓賳 丕賱噩爻乇 丕賱兀禺賷乇 " 噩爻乇 乇賵夭賲丕賳 " 賲賳 噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 " 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳 " 廿匕 亘賴 賷賳夭賱 賲賳 卮丕丨賳鬲賴 賲鬲賵賯賮丕賸 睾賷乇 亘毓賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賲賲乇 丕賱賲丐丿賷 廿賱賶 賲賳夭賱 " 賮乇丕賳卮賷爻賰丕 " 丕賱夭賵噩丞 賵丕賱兀賲 賱賮鬲丕丞 賵賮鬲賶 賮賷 毓賲乇 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞 毓卮乇....
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賱賳鬲毓乇賮 兀賵賱丕賸 毓賱賶 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 " 廿賳 丕爻鬲胤毓賳丕 匕賱賰 貙 鬲乇丕亍賶 賱賷 乇噩賱 賷鬲賲鬲毓 亘匕賰丕亍 賲丨丕賷丿 ..卮睾賮 睾丕賲囟 貙 丕賱賯賵丞 丕賱賲乇賳丞 賱賲丨丕乇亘 賯丿賷賲 貙 乇兀賷鬲 毓賷賳賷賴 丕賱夭乇賯丕賵賷賳 睾丕卅賲鬲賷賳 亘丕賱卮毓賵乇 亘丕賱丕睾鬲乇丕亘 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 賱丕 賲賰丕賳 賱賴 亘賴 貙 賲賱丕賲丨 丨丕丿丞 賱賰賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賲鬲卮賳噩丞 亘賱 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲賱賷賳 亘胤賷亘丞 丌爻乇丞 貙 賱丕 賷丨丕賵賱 丕賯鬲丨丕賲 賯賱亘 丕賲乇兀丞 ..賵賱賰賳 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賮賯丿賴丕 鬲賵丕夭賳賴丕 賵丕賱匕賷 賱賳 鬲爻鬲毓賷丿賴 亘毓丿賴丕 兀亘丿丕賸....
賯賱賲丕 鬲賱鬲賯賷 亘乇噩賱 賷賮鬲賯乇 廿賱賶 丕賱賲乇丕賵睾丞 賵丕賱禺丿丕毓 貙 賵賱賰賳 賰丕賳 孬賲丞 卮賷亍 賴賳丕賰 毓賲賷賯 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 賷爻鬲丨賷賱 丕賱鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴....
兀賲丕 賮賷 丕賱鬲賯丕胤 丕賱氐賵乇 貙 賰丕賳 亘丕乇毓丕賸 賵賱賲 賷賰賳 噩丕賲丨丕賸...貙 鬲賵賱丿 賱丿賷 丕賳胤亘丕毓 賯賵賷 亘兀賳 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 鬲亘禺賱 亘兀賳 鬲賲賳丨 賱丨馗丞 賲賳 丕賱爻丨乇 禺丕乇噩 丕賱夭賲賳 賮賷 賰賱 氐賵乇丞 鬲賱鬲賯胤賴丕 毓賷賳丕賴...毓賷賳丕 丕賱氐賯乇 賵賱賷爻 毓丿爻丞 賰丕賲賷乇丕 丕賱鬲氐賵賷乇....
丕毓鬲賯丿 乇噩賱 賲孬賱 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 " 賷孬賷乇 丕賱丕毓噩丕亘...丕賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 ..賵丕賱鬲爻丕丐賱丕鬲..賵賱賰賳 賴賱 賴匕丕 賷賰賮賷 兀賳 賷氐賷睾 賲亘乇乇丕賸 賱丕賲乇兀丞 賲鬲夭賵噩丞 兀賳 鬲賰爻乇 丕賱丨丿賵丿 賵鬲賯賷賲 賲毓賴 毓賱丕賯丞 賮賷 睾賷丕亘 毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 毓賳 丕賱賲賳夭賱...
丨鬲賶 賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 賵丨賷丿丞...賲賳胤賮卅丞 貙 兀丨賱丕賲 丕賱氐亘丕 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 賯丿 乇賰賱鬲賴丕 賵賱賰賳 賷亘丿賵 廿賳賴丕 賱賲 鬲乇賰賱賴丕 亘毓賷丿丕購 賱兀賳賴丕 丕乇鬲丿鬲 廿賱賷賴丕 賱丨馗丞 兀賳 丕賱鬲賯鬲 亘 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 " ...
賴賳丕 亘毓賷丿丕賸 毓賳 丕賱丨賰賲 亘賲毓賷丕乇 兀禺賱丕賯賷 貙 賱賰賳 亘丨賰賲 丕賱賲賳胤賯 賴賱 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賳丿毓賷 亘兀賳 丕賱丕賳爻賷丕賯 賵乇丕亍 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賵丕賱卮賴賵丞 丕賱賱毓賷賳丞 賴賶 賱丨馗丞 丕賱賵賯賵毓 賮賷 丕賱丨亘 責!!!...
兀賲 廿賳賴丕 賱丨馗丞 丕賱賱匕丞 丕賱賯氐賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵乇孬 毓匕丕亘丕賸 賱丕賳賴丕卅賷丕賸....
廿丿毓丕亍 丕賱鬲囟丨賷丞 亘丕賱鬲賵丕噩丿 賲毓 兀爻乇鬲賴丕 亘賷賳賲丕 賯賱亘賴丕 賲毓 乇噩賱 睾賷乇 夭賵噩賴丕 賱爻賳賵丕鬲 胤賵賷賱丞 賴賵 鬲夭賷賷賮丕賸 賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱禺賷丕賳丞...
賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 鬲胤丕賱亘 丕亘賳賴丕 賵丕亘賳鬲賴丕 賮賷 賵氐賷鬲賴丕 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱乇噩賱 噩丿賷乇 亘丨亘賴賲丕 賵丕丨鬲乇丕賲賴賲丕 責!!
丕賱賲 鬲卮毓乇 亘賵禺夭 囟賲賷乇賴丕 毓賳丿賲丕 賰丕賳 夭賵噩賴丕 毓賱賶 賮乇丕卮 丕賱賲賵鬲 賵賯丿 丕毓鬲匕乇 毓賳 毓丿賲 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲賴 兀賳 賷丨賯賯 丕丨賱丕賲賴丕 丕賱禺丕氐丞 責責..
賴賳丕 丕賱賴卮丕卮丞 賵丕賱賵賴賳 貙 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賵丕賱丕丨鬲賷丕噩 貙 鬲鬲丿丕禺賱 賮賷 賱丨馗丞 卮丕卅賰丞 賲丐乇賯丞...賴賱 鬲卮賴丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱賱丨馗丞 氐丿賯丕賸 亘賲賷賱丕丿 丨亘 責....
丕賱賲氐賵乇 丕賱賮賵鬲賵睾乇丕賮賷 丕賱乇丨賻賾丕賱 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 賰賷賳賰賷丿 " 亘賷賳賲丕 賰丕賳 賮賷 賲賴賲丞 賱 " 賳丕卮賷賵賳丕賱 噩賷賵睾乇丕賮賰 " 亘丕丨孬丕賸 毓賳 丕賱噩爻乇 丕賱兀禺賷乇 " 噩爻乇 乇賵夭賲丕賳 " 賲賳 噩爻賵乇 賲賯丕胤毓丞 " 賲丕丿賷爻賵賳 " 廿匕 亘賴 賷賳夭賱 賲賳 卮丕丨賳鬲賴 賲鬲賵賯賮丕賸 睾賷乇 亘毓賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賲賲乇 丕賱賲丐丿賷 廿賱賶 賲賳夭賱 " 賮乇丕賳卮賷爻賰丕 " 丕賱夭賵噩丞 賵丕賱兀賲 賱賮鬲丕丞 賵賮鬲賶 賮賷 毓賲乇 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞 毓卮乇....
賮賷 賯亘囟丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱賱丨馗丞 賵賯毓丕 賮賷 丕賱睾乇丕賲....!!
賱賳鬲毓乇賮 兀賵賱丕賸 毓賱賶 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 " 廿賳 丕爻鬲胤毓賳丕 匕賱賰 貙 鬲乇丕亍賶 賱賷 乇噩賱 賷鬲賲鬲毓 亘匕賰丕亍 賲丨丕賷丿 ..卮睾賮 睾丕賲囟 貙 丕賱賯賵丞 丕賱賲乇賳丞 賱賲丨丕乇亘 賯丿賷賲 貙 乇兀賷鬲 毓賷賳賷賴 丕賱夭乇賯丕賵賷賳 睾丕卅賲鬲賷賳 亘丕賱卮毓賵乇 亘丕賱丕睾鬲乇丕亘 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 賱丕 賲賰丕賳 賱賴 亘賴 貙 賲賱丕賲丨 丨丕丿丞 賱賰賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 賲鬲卮賳噩丞 亘賱 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲賱賷賳 亘胤賷亘丞 丌爻乇丞 貙 賱丕 賷丨丕賵賱 丕賯鬲丨丕賲 賯賱亘 丕賲乇兀丞 ..賵賱賰賳 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賮賯丿賴丕 鬲賵丕夭賳賴丕 賵丕賱匕賷 賱賳 鬲爻鬲毓賷丿賴 亘毓丿賴丕 兀亘丿丕賸....
賯賱賲丕 鬲賱鬲賯賷 亘乇噩賱 賷賮鬲賯乇 廿賱賶 丕賱賲乇丕賵睾丞 賵丕賱禺丿丕毓 貙 賵賱賰賳 賰丕賳 孬賲丞 卮賷亍 賴賳丕賰 毓賲賷賯 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱乇噩賱 賷爻鬲丨賷賱 丕賱鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴....
兀賲丕 賮賷 丕賱鬲賯丕胤 丕賱氐賵乇 貙 賰丕賳 亘丕乇毓丕賸 賵賱賲 賷賰賳 噩丕賲丨丕賸...貙 鬲賵賱丿 賱丿賷 丕賳胤亘丕毓 賯賵賷 亘兀賳 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 鬲亘禺賱 亘兀賳 鬲賲賳丨 賱丨馗丞 賲賳 丕賱爻丨乇 禺丕乇噩 丕賱夭賲賳 賮賷 賰賱 氐賵乇丞 鬲賱鬲賯胤賴丕 毓賷賳丕賴...毓賷賳丕 丕賱氐賯乇 賵賱賷爻 毓丿爻丞 賰丕賲賷乇丕 丕賱鬲氐賵賷乇....
丕毓鬲賯丿 乇噩賱 賲孬賱 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 " 賷孬賷乇 丕賱丕毓噩丕亘...丕賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 ..賵丕賱鬲爻丕丐賱丕鬲..賵賱賰賳 賴賱 賴匕丕 賷賰賮賷 兀賳 賷氐賷睾 賲亘乇乇丕賸 賱丕賲乇兀丞 賲鬲夭賵噩丞 兀賳 鬲賰爻乇 丕賱丨丿賵丿 賵鬲賯賷賲 賲毓賴 毓賱丕賯丞 賮賷 睾賷丕亘 毓丕卅賱鬲賴丕 毓賳 丕賱賲賳夭賱...
丨鬲賶 賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 賵丨賷丿丞...賲賳胤賮卅丞 貙 兀丨賱丕賲 丕賱氐亘丕 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 賯丿 乇賰賱鬲賴丕 賵賱賰賳 賷亘丿賵 廿賳賴丕 賱賲 鬲乇賰賱賴丕 亘毓賷丿丕購 賱兀賳賴丕 丕乇鬲丿鬲 廿賱賷賴丕 賱丨馗丞 兀賳 丕賱鬲賯鬲 亘 " 乇賵亘乇鬲 " ...
賴賳丕 亘毓賷丿丕賸 毓賳 丕賱丨賰賲 亘賲毓賷丕乇 兀禺賱丕賯賷 貙 賱賰賳 亘丨賰賲 丕賱賲賳胤賯 賴賱 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賳丿毓賷 亘兀賳 丕賱丕賳爻賷丕賯 賵乇丕亍 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賵丕賱卮賴賵丞 丕賱賱毓賷賳丞 賴賶 賱丨馗丞 丕賱賵賯賵毓 賮賷 丕賱丨亘 責!!!...
兀賲 廿賳賴丕 賱丨馗丞 丕賱賱匕丞 丕賱賯氐賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵乇孬 毓匕丕亘丕賸 賱丕賳賴丕卅賷丕賸....
廿丿毓丕亍 丕賱鬲囟丨賷丞 亘丕賱鬲賵丕噩丿 賲毓 兀爻乇鬲賴丕 亘賷賳賲丕 賯賱亘賴丕 賲毓 乇噩賱 睾賷乇 夭賵噩賴丕 賱爻賳賵丕鬲 胤賵賷賱丞 賴賵 鬲夭賷賷賮丕賸 賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱禺賷丕賳丞...
賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 鬲胤丕賱亘 丕亘賳賴丕 賵丕亘賳鬲賴丕 賮賷 賵氐賷鬲賴丕 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱乇噩賱 噩丿賷乇 亘丨亘賴賲丕 賵丕丨鬲乇丕賲賴賲丕 責!!
丕賱賲 鬲卮毓乇 亘賵禺夭 囟賲賷乇賴丕 毓賳丿賲丕 賰丕賳 夭賵噩賴丕 毓賱賶 賮乇丕卮 丕賱賲賵鬲 賵賯丿 丕毓鬲匕乇 毓賳 毓丿賲 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲賴 兀賳 賷丨賯賯 丕丨賱丕賲賴丕 丕賱禺丕氐丞 責責..
賴賳丕 丕賱賴卮丕卮丞 賵丕賱賵賴賳 貙 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賵丕賱丕丨鬲賷丕噩 貙 鬲鬲丿丕禺賱 賮賷 賱丨馗丞 卮丕卅賰丞 賲丐乇賯丞...賴賱 鬲卮賴丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱賱丨馗丞 氐丿賯丕賸 亘賲賷賱丕丿 丨亘 責....
May 18, 2022
4.5 Stars for The Bridges of Madison County (audiobook) by Robert James Waller read by Mitch Greenberg.
This is a story of love and loss鈥� and finding out that your mother led a more interesting life than you thought.
This is a story of love and loss鈥� and finding out that your mother led a more interesting life than you thought.
January 20, 2022
I always wanted to read this book. I loved the movie and hoped that the book would be the same or better. It didn't disappoint me. A love story we all want to have and find in our lives. I wished the book was longer because of all the emotion that you could feel in the book. I wished they would have found each other later in life. I enjoyed it and I will carry the story with me the rest of my life. May love find us all.
October 24, 2022
亘賵蹖 丌乇丕賲卮責 賲诏乇 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 趩蹖夭蹖 亘賵蹖 丌乇丕賲卮 亘丿賴丿責
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丿乇 賲賵乇丿 毓讴丕爻蹖 讴賴 亘丕 毓讴爻鈥屬囏й屫� 賲丕 乇丕 亘丕 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屬囏й屰� 毓賲蹖賯 丕夭 毓卮賯 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌卮賳丕 賲蹖鈥屫池ж藏�.
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亘乇賳丿賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 讴鬲丕亘 爻丕賱 讴鬲丕亘賮乇賵卮丕賳 丌賲乇蹖讴丕蹖蹖 爻丕賱 1993
亘乇賳丿賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 丌卅賵丿蹖 爻丕賱 2015
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丿乇 賲賵乇丿 毓讴丕爻蹖 讴賴 亘丕 毓讴爻鈥屬囏й屫� 賲丕 乇丕 亘丕 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屬囏й屰� 毓賲蹖賯 丕夭 毓卮賯 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌卮賳丕 賲蹖鈥屫池ж藏�.
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亘乇賳丿賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 讴鬲丕亘 爻丕賱 讴鬲丕亘賮乇賵卮丕賳 丌賲乇蹖讴丕蹖蹖 爻丕賱 1993
亘乇賳丿賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 丌卅賵丿蹖 爻丕賱 2015
April 16, 2015
* Spoilers ahead. Though, honestly, if you've read even one Nicholas Sparks book, none of this should come as a surprise. *
So, I looked at the bestseller lists for 1993 and this one was the top book for the entire year. I needed a book published in '93, because of the 2015 Reading Challenge: A Book That Came Out the Year You Were Born. I later found out that it was actually published in 1992, but I consider my duty done, since I couldn't find anything else connected specifically to 1993.
Anyway, I'll be blunt and I feel the need to apologize in advance: this is a book written for women who are past their prime and unhappy about their lives and look for hope wherever they can find it.听
It's not a very good book either. It tells the story of a permanently sweaty photographer and a lonely farm wife, both of whom really want to have sex. There's insta-love, almost insta-sex and a tragic separation of two people who are truly meant to be together - I mean, he asked her for directions, she noticed how sexily sweaty he is and that he has sweat stains on watch and drops of sweat on his chest, and decided to invite him over to show off her sexy 49-year-old butt and to shag him on their second "date".
And to top that off, just before she died she wrote a letter to her children, which innocently starts with:
"If possible, please sit at the old kitchen table to read [this letter]. You'll understand that request shortly."
Then there is a lot of blah-blah-blah. And then, the big reveal a.k.a. why should they sit at the old kitchen table:
"In our old kitchen, Robert and I spent hours together. We talked and danced by candlelight. And, yes, we made love there..."听
I mean... HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
She and Robert were separated because of her children, so she decided to get back at them by making them sit at the same table she had sex with a random guy on, while making them read about it. HAHAHAHAHAHAH WIN! And also...
As far as the love story goes, it's a few degrees above laughable and unbelievable. Same goes to descriptions of their "love-making" and the way he is a tiger, or a panther, or I don't know what that disturbing woman was describing him as. She is a neglected wife and the mother of two total a-holes who don't really care about her enough to even visit on her birthday. All she does is farm and serve her husband beers. That's exactly the type of woman an adventurous photographer, who's been around the entire globe, would fall for. Not.
The writing is not any better than the characters. In the very first chapter, when Robert starts the journey which will eventually lead him to Francesca, the author lists the things Kincaid puts in his car - one by one. And lest we forget, two lines down Robert does a mental list of the very same things. Then every time his car, Harry, is mentioned, there is again a list of everything that's in it. Every time. And when Francesca reminisces about him, she also thinks about the stuff in his car. First world problems, people!
March 20, 2019
In a world of reality and harshness it would be all to easy to forget what it really means to be human...
鈥淓ventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn't require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness鈥澨�
Sometimes things don't need to be dissected, but rather taken for exactly as they are...
"Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away."
This book isn't particularly well written but it is a beautiful story and there are some brilliant moments.
I wonder if a 20 or 30 year old reading this would relate to it in anyway? It is a story of
deep and passionate love that transcends everything else, husbands, children, time itself.
They knew each other for 4 short days, but those days were eternal.
One last quote for me to remember....
'The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them".
4*
鈥淓ventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn't require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness鈥澨�
Sometimes things don't need to be dissected, but rather taken for exactly as they are...
"Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away."
This book isn't particularly well written but it is a beautiful story and there are some brilliant moments.
I wonder if a 20 or 30 year old reading this would relate to it in anyway? It is a story of
deep and passionate love that transcends everything else, husbands, children, time itself.
They knew each other for 4 short days, but those days were eternal.
One last quote for me to remember....
'The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out, but I'm glad I had them".
4*
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