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24 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 If you've ever really been in love you'll "GET" this bookSep 22, 2004
By J. A. Gant
"asturnut"
If you're a miserable cynic, you'll hate it. I am not a fiction reader. I am purely a lover of non-fiction. But a friend pleaded with me to read this book. When I finally broke down and picked up the book, I could not put it down. I finished it in about 5 hours.
People can say whatever they want about it being contrived romance, but this book puts you inside of what it feels like to be in a very intense romance that some (real) people really experience. I've been there, I know the anguish and intensity of the love this book describes. There really are people who love, speak and act this way.
People who don't get this book are bitter and angry that they can not concieve of such intense loving and living. If you love to love, and love an incredible quick read, this book is for you.
I wept for a good half hour when I finished this book despite myself. Enjoy!
-- A non-fiction loving, non-sap from New Jersey
21 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Perfect read for the sentimentalistNov 08, 2006
By Sarah Vigil Swiger
"Author of The Divine Plan"
A woman I know, along with an Amazon.com reviewer or two, couldn't comprehend how Francesca's boredom could lead her to betray her husband. Francesca was not bored, perhaps unsustained by her husband's lack of passion, but not bored. Bridges of Madison County hit the bestsellers list for years because just about everyone has parted ways with someone they loved, whether it lasted four days or ten years. True passion lives forever in the memory and can sustain for a lifetime. This story is beautiful, one of my favorites.
23 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 Ah, fer cryin' out loud...Jun 25, 2001
By Rm31d
"rm31d"
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but if this book were a horse, I'd have to shoot it. No, really; it's that bad. I don't know a single English professor who ever read it. It was smarmy and pretentious. When I read the line about a "star creature on a comet's tail", I was groaning out loud. And when I read "I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea", I found myself hoping that those sails would be capsized by a hurricane. And the part where Francesca's children read about her lovemaking really creeped me out."Yes, kids, nothing says healthy like reading about your mother's adulterous sexual escapades." Overall, despite its hype, this is nothing we haven't seen before. You read one romance novel, you've read 'em all. Kind of like Stephen King novels. If you're truly curious, pick it up at the library. You'l laugh until you realize that it's not a comedy.
23 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Terrible, I can't rate it low enough...Nov 04, 2000
This book is manipulative, predictable, sacharine, wildly overwrought emotional porn. Waller knows how to pull the heartstrings-to a point he's a genius at it, but hasn't the decency to use a feather's touch and let things happen gently. For the reader, "the Bridges" is a masochistic exercise of turning the other cheek to blow after blow from a blunt literary instrument. Waller is not content to let the reader slowly fall into the sadness of love cut short of its full tragectory. In the first few pages he completely delivers his bittersweet emotional package in prose as big as a billboard, then for the remainder of the book relentlessly sledgehammers the message in. Don't read it. Don't buy it. Don't waste your time.
17 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Hilarious!Feb 12, 2003
If you want to have a good laugh, please read this book. It was so incredibly bad that it is a parody of itself. The author/main character is so conceited and narcissistic (One scene that cracked me up was when a gorgeous model sniffs that basically she can't get close to him because he is too deep, brooding - HELLO! Can this be anymore silly? Talk about a male fantasy!) I believe a parody of this was written called "The Ditches of Edison County" but there really isn't any need to read that because you'll laugh just as much reading this rubbish.
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