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A review by msjoanna
Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller, Isabella Rossellini
2.0
I watched the movie version of this as a kid, but was probably too young to really appreciate it. I actually walked out of the movie before it was over because I thouught it was so boring. I admit that I also almost stopped listening to the audio version because the writing was so overdone.
The story traces a four-day affair between a traveling photographer and a farmer's wife. They fall madly in love, but never see each other again. Because of her sense of responsibility to her family, she refuses to run off with the photographer, which seems reasonable and right in its own quiet way. At the same time, I'm not sure I agree with or like the premise that love is something that just happens "once in a universe" to people who otherwise don't know each other.
I do love the passionate responses that this book received and found reading the vehement reviews sort of entertaining in their own right.
The story traces a four-day affair between a traveling photographer and a farmer's wife. They fall madly in love, but never see each other again. Because of her sense of responsibility to her family, she refuses to run off with the photographer, which seems reasonable and right in its own quiet way. At the same time, I'm not sure I agree with or like the premise that love is something that just happens "once in a universe" to people who otherwise don't know each other.
I do love the passionate responses that this book received and found reading the vehement reviews sort of entertaining in their own right.