A Thousand Country Roads by Robert James Waller
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Book Reviews of A Thousand Country Roads
Book Review: Worth reading
Summary: 3 Stars
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.Book Review: Don't waste your time
Summary: 2 Stars
If you, like myself, absolutely loved reading Bridges of Madison County and were content with the ending, don't waste your time on this epilogue. Yes, it would have been wonderful if Francesca and Robert could have met again later in life but we know from reading Bridges, they did not. They both lived a good life having their ashes sprinkled over Roseman Bridge upon their deaths. In A Thousand Country Roads, it's like you get your hopes up that there's a possibility they will see each other again all the while knowing it's just not going to happen. This book tells a little bit of what happened in their lives after meeting each other and confirms that what they had was indeed unique and very special. Neither could be with anyone else for a lifetime afterwards. I read the book simply because the first story touched me so deeply. This one left me feeling blue.Book Review: A disastrous epilogue to an excellent story
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Book Review: yeah right
Summary: 1 Stars
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...