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Title: A Thousand Country Roads by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0-446-61306-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: yeah right
Comment: This is, what you call, a quest for money... Considering the planetary success of "Bridges..." it became obvious that any day now, one should expect a sequel... Which is not entirely bad, when you come down to the bottom... what makes it bad is how that sequel was written...
Without any kind of emotion, or as once were said for Kerouac "that is not writing, it is typing", with cheap philosophy, small minded attacks on academic world or any kind of higher education, presenting life in a way that never existed, with narrative that every house wife can tell you in five to six minutes, it is a sad thing that someone actually printed this.
Well, what can you say, if you have any taste, you will skip this one, you can think of a better ending of "Bridges..." for yourself...
Rating: 1
Summary: A disastrous epilogue to an excellent story
Comment: It would have been much better if this book had never been written. The story in this volume takes place in the time period after the wandering photographer (Robert Kincaid) left Madison County, Iowa, following his short love affair with the conventional wife of an Iowa farmer (Francesca Johnson), until his death. Actually there is not much discussion about Francesca; rather the story is focused on Robert's new discovery of his forgotten son produced from a one-night sexual encounter with a free-spirited girl in Northern California when Robert was much younger. This epilogue dilutes the beautiful love story between Robert and Francesca described in The Bridges of Madison County, which I have always defended against pretentious friends who regarded it as a trashy romance novel. It appears to me that Robert James Waller was forced to write this terrible "A Thousand Country Roads" for some reason which I don't understand.
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth reading
Comment: I enjoyed reading this book. Of course nothing can compare to the Bridges of Madison County, but it was interesting to see what happened to Robert and Francesca. A few parts were somewhat slow, but the writing is beautiful and the ending is touching. If you don't mind going beyond the love story to look at the rest of their lives, go ahead and read it. If you are so smitten by the romance of Bridges that you can't bear to let "real" life endings tamper w/ it, then skip this book b/c it shows how life is just life and things just turn out the way they do - often not the way we want them to.
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Title: The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller ISBN: 044651652X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446516538 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0971766711 Publisher: John M. Hardy Pub. Date: 23 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Old Songs in a New Cafe : Selected Essays by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446517984 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Border Music by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446602736 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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